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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': The episode "Hell" centered around two Ugandan refugees: a little girl who had been kept as a sex slave until she was so badly broken that she was LeftForDead, and a former Lord's Resistance Army child soldier that was conscripted as a little boy before escaping as a young man. When the girl is attacked and nearly killed, the man is the primary suspect, but it's revealed that the two were LikeBrotherAndSister, and he was actually trying to protect her from the real culprit, a third refugee who turned out to be the one who had enslaved the girl, and had tried to kill her so she couldn't reveal his true identity. While the detectives manage to arrest the man who did it, the former child soldier is slated for deportation since he is staying illegally in America. He ultimately commits SuicideByCop, since he would rather die than return to Uganda, and also in hopes that this would force the world to recognize the plight of other child soldiers.

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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': The episode "Hell" centered "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS10E17Hell Hell]]" centers around two Ugandan refugees: a little girl who had been kept as a sex slave until she was so badly broken that she was LeftForDead, and a former Lord's Resistance Army child soldier that who was conscripted as a little boy before escaping as a young man. When the girl is attacked and nearly killed, the man is the primary suspect, but it's revealed that the two were are LikeBrotherAndSister, and he was actually trying to protect her from the real culprit, a third refugee who turned out to be the one who had enslaved the girl, and had tried to kill her so she couldn't reveal his true identity. While the detectives manage to arrest the man who did it, the former child soldier is slated for deportation since he is staying illegally in America. He ultimately commits SuicideByCop, since he would rather die than return to Uganda, and also in hopes that this would will force the world to recognize the plight of other child soldiers.
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** Outside of the Badlands, other factions appear to draft children [[MutantDraftBoard with the dark gift]] regardless of how young they are.

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* ''Series/DarkAngel'': The genetically engineered X5 supersoldiers were raised as soldiers by Project Manticore from birth, complete with dangerous field exercises. In one that we saw, the kids (who were 10-years-old) hunted down a death-row inmate in the woods (he'd have been pardoned if he'd evaded them) and tore him to pieces after mistaking him for one of the "nomalies" (anomalies) they were afraid of who lived in the basement. In another, one of them was killed by friendly fire. They also had to hold their breaths under water for tortorously long amounts of time. And sometimes their arms and legs would be broken to measure their enhanced osteoregeneration.

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* ''Series/DarkAngel'': The X5 supersoldiers and other genetically engineered X5 supersoldiers children were raised as soldiers drafted by Project Manticore from birth, Manticore, complete with dangerous field exercises. In one that we saw, the kids (who were 10-years-old) hunted down a death-row inmate in the woods (he'd have been pardoned if he'd evaded them) and tore him to pieces after mistaking him for one of the "nomalies" (anomalies) they were afraid of who lived in the basement. In another, one of them was killed by friendly fire. They also had to hold their breaths under water for tortorously long amounts of time. And sometimes their arms and legs would be broken to measure their enhanced osteoregeneration.


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* ''Series/IntoTheBadlands'': In the Badlands; the Barons start training recruits called "colts" when they are in their mid teens. They are used as scouts, lookouts, and in a few cases as bodyguards & assassins in parallel with the adult "clipper" soldiers.


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* ''Series/{{See}}'': In a future where almost everyone is blind from birth; second-season villain Edo has no qualms about drafting a sighted six-year-old kid to act as lookout and call shots for his archers. Demonstrating the moral differences between them; his brother Baba refuses to kill or silence the lookout and is captured and tortured by Edo as a result.
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* ''Series/{{Counterpart}}'': A faction on Earth Prime it turns out raises orphans to be spies infiltrating Earth Alpha. They blame Earth Alpha for the flu epidemic which killed billions in the past on their world, seeking revenge.

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* ''Series/{{Counterpart}}'': ''Series/Counterpart2018'': A faction on Earth Prime it turns out raises orphans to be spies infiltrating Earth Alpha. They blame Earth Alpha for the flu epidemic which killed billions in the past on their world, seeking revenge.

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