Foster mom discovers 12-year-old Afghan refugee in her care is 21-year-old jihadi

London: A foster mother who offered shelter to a 12-year-old Afghan refugee was shocked to discover that the minor boy she helped was in fact a 21-year-old jihadi.

According to a report in The Sun, Rosie, the carer, thought that Jamal, the minor boy in her care, was a child refugee who had fled Afghanistan. However, he was almost a decade older than what she had been told he was.

Rosie had allowed Jamal into her family after social workers told her that he was an orphan.

Rosie discovered Jamal's real age only when she took him to the dentist for a check up, where the doctor said that the boy was much older than he claimed, following which an investigation was launched.

During investigation, police found out that Jamal had stored Taliban and child abuse material on his mobile phone.

Rosie told police that she had always been suspicious about Jamal's growing facial hair and gun proficiency.

"I’ll kill you and I know where your children are," were Jamal's last words to Rosie before he was taken away by the police.

This incident comes in the wake of recent security lapses where migrants claiming to be children entered UK from Calais camps.

Recently, a Conservative party MP suggested that dental checks must be used to determine the age of migrants entering the UK from France under a new agreement reached between the two countries over refugee children.

Monmouth MP David Davies said mandatory teeth checks would reassure people that the unaccompanied migrants coming into the UK to join relatives were indeed children.

Voicing her opinion on dental checks, Rosie said, "Adults are playing the system. It’s putting families like mine and society as a whole at risk."

"I don’t see anything wrong with dental and bone density checks. Some say they are intrusive and degrading. But having a man in your home who’s pretending to be a child is far more intrusive," she added.