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Troubled Teen Tricked by Parents into Going to Africa, 'Abandoned' at Boarding School: Lawsuit

Photo for representational purposes only. Students during lunchtime at Makhtar, a Tunisian boarding school, on Sept. 29, 2022. (Credit: FETHI BELAID/Getty Images)

A 13-year-old boy has taken legal action against his parents, who he says tricked him into going to Africa and abandoned him at a boarding school.

The British teenager claims his parents told him they were traveling abroad to visit a sick relative, but he was then left there without warning due to fears that he was participating in gang activity in London—an allegation the boy denies. The country in which he was left was not publicly disclosed.

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