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UK police open inquiry into Farah trafficking revelations

Britain's Mo Farah, right, runs as a pacemaker during the London Marathon in London, England, October 4, 2020. [AP Photo]

London’s Metropolitan Police Service has opened an investigation into four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah’s revelation that he was trafficked to the U.K. as a child.

The inquiry comes after Farah, 39, said in a documentary that a woman he didn’t know brought him to the U.K. when he was about 8 years old and forced him to care for her children. He said he wasn’t allowed to go to school until he was 12.

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