Teenage girls and young women are increasingly targeted for recruitment into county lines operations because they attract less attention from police.
Today she has turned her life around and now helps other young people who are groomed and trafficked by gangs in what are known as ‘county lines’ dealing operations.
Last year, its SOS project supported 382 young people to leave or reduce their involvement in county lines and other exploitative activities.
"It expanded to where I was recruited by a drug gang at the age of 16 and started transporting drugs up and down the country in a typical county lines operation.”.
And although it’s often assumed that girls are groomed by men, Nequela’s introduction to county lines came through a female friend’s sister.
