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The fifth estate investigates how gangs lure boys north

Its only new documentary follows teenage recruitment into drug dealing and asks where protection failed.

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Lured north: How a missing boy vanished 3,000 km from home | the fifth estate

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5:41A mother explains how food delivery orders helped her trace her son's movements through remote locations.
8:00Inspector Joshua Watsky explains how criminal networks exploit teenagers as disposable drug dealers.
9:20Denny Heathen describes recruitment built around money, status and a false sense of importance.
29:44A bereaved family criticizes the police response to their missing-child report.
32:06Violence prevention specialist Christine Lewis insists that even one missing youth is too many.

A mother traces her missing son's movements through food delivery orders on his phone. In the fifth estate's new investigation, that practical detail shows how families try to find children sent far from home by criminal gangs.

"Lured north: How a missing boy vanished 3,000 km from home | the fifth estate" was the channel's only upload this week and has reached nearly half a million views. The documentary examines how adults recruit vulnerable boys to sell drugs in remote northern communities, offering money, status and a sense of belonging.

Former gang member and youth counselor Denny Heathen describes the need those recruiters exploit: "They wanted purpose." Winnipeg Police Inspector Joshua Watsky explains how gangs treat teenagers as disposable dealers. Alongside those accounts, the report follows a family's search for a missing boy, his death and their criticism of the police response. Its questions concern both recruitment and what happens when families seek help.

The new documentary is the channel's busiest upload right now. An August Short about violence in a small B.C. community also continues to draw substantial daily viewing, while October's sovereign-citizen tax investigation remains active further down the archive.

Across the channel, the week brought about 790,000 views, with subscribers unchanged. Daily viewing is slightly below its usual level. That leaves the fifth estate with a steady subscriber audience and a new investigation doing the largest share of its current daily viewing.

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