EXCLUSIVE - Children CAGED to keep the streets clean for the Pope: Police round up orphans and chain them in filth during pontiff's visit to Philippines

• Street children in Manila are being rounded up before the Pope's arrival 
• Officials claim it is to stop gangs of beggars targeting the Pope
• But critics say it is a cynical move breaching the children's human rights
• MailOnline investigation finds horrendous conditions at the centres
• Children forced to sleep on floors and kept with adults who beat them
• Some children have been starved and chained to pillars in the centres
• One child rounded up 59 times - yet he is still living on the streets
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A MailOnline investigation has uncovered the horrendous conditions the children are kept in, with many of them beaten, or tied to poles. This picture of a starving 11-year-old led to protests against the centres - but nothing has changed

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