Child prostitutes sleep amongst the DEAD because they think it will keep them safe from evil

{By Matthew Drake}

The desperate youngsters have set up home among crumbling tombs in the hope it will keep them safe from evil

Scores of children who sell their bodies to stay alive have taken up refuge among the dead – believing it will keep them safe from evil.

Each day, the haunted youngsters in dirty, ragged clothes rise up from the crumbling tombs of Monrovia’s Palm Grove Cemetery shortly before dawn.

These are the lost children of Liberia, sharing graves they have clawed out by hand on the outskirts of their country’s capital, still blighted by a 14-year civil war that ended a decade ago. READ MORE OF THIS REPORT