children as young as 14 are being used as drug mules.

children as young as 14 are being used as drug mules. They regularly catch trains to the inner-western Melbourne drug hotspots of Footscray and Maribyrnong, police sources have confirmed.

It is believed there is a core group of up to five teenagers involved in distributing the illegal goods via public transport, with some of them in the care of the Department of Human Services, sources revealed.

"I was told by police that my son is involved in trafficking drugs from Melbourne," one distraught father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Geelong Advertiser.

"These kids are going to Melbourne on trains and there is a crew of teenagers who bring drugs down from Melbourne and that it's been going on for a couple of years.

"The beauty of them being minors is that they can get on the train cheap or free."