The story of Madeleine McCann, like so many other stories of abducted children, has captured headlines because it's every parent's nightmare. Today's news about her is surprising though. French police are admitting she may have been abducted by an Eastern European gang that deals in child slaves (see Police Probe Link Between Madeleine and Trafficking Network).
The abduction of Madeleine McCann may be linked to a trafficking network that sees children put on the market for $14,000, detectives have said.
Officers in France say Eastern European gangs are holding auctions in supermarket car-parks in Portugal and France. They have released details of the trade, as they believe it may be related to the four-year-old's disappearance, a Sky source said.
In one recent case, the mother of a baby boy was arrested for attempting to sell her baby North of Lisbon. In addition, two Romanian couples were arrested in a supermarket car park North of Bordeaux while attempting to sell a girl.
While nothing good comes from human trafficking, I hope this particular story about Madeleine gets some serious air time and I hope journalists move past just the "true crime" angle of child abductions and into the organized crime networks that trade slaves in a manner that dwarfs the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
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