Child Trafficking 'Link' To Missing Girl

News Headline; says:
The abduction of Madeleine McCann may be linked to a trafficking network that sees children put on the market for £7,000, detectives have said. Eastern European gangs are holding auctions in supermarket car-parks in Portugal and France. Officers in France 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 case, the mother of a baby boy was arrested for attempting to sell her baby North of Lisbon, and two Romanian couples were arrested in a supermarket car park in the North of Bordeaux when attempting to sell a girl.

Madeleine was snatched from her bed in her family's holiday flat in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on May 3. Shoppers in Monaco reported seeing a girl of similar age and appearance to the missing child escaping her abductors when they attempted to cut off her hair. However, experts have questioned whether child traffickers or a childless couple are behind the disappearance, as they would have taken her younger siblings, who were with her at the time. Younger children are easier to abduct and smuggle, and are easier to 'mould'.


**Opinion Update**
On first read this headline is very ominous and quite frightening. I like anyone else reading this would feel perturbed by its implications. I'm sure Kate & Gerry McCann will have felt exactly the same. No sorry, it must be so much worse for them, reading such awful implications about their own child.

I read the headline, published it to the blog ... and then after having had time to think ... I've come back to the post to write this update. I've had time to clear my head of the intended reactions (someone somewhere would be banking on those negative reactions) and gained back the level headedness I have realised is required to 'understand' the media directives behind the new's stories.

There doesn't appear to be any indication of a timeline with this new's story ... when is this meant to have occurred? What happened to Maddy after she ran away? Did these abductors get her back? Why didn't anyone intervene and go the aid of this little girl? My suspicions are raised with the content of this item ... it is written for maximum effect. As always, there are more unanswered questions than answered ones with the apparent event.

I'm uneasy about the whole notion of the 'child trafficking' being implicated here. It is being presented here as another 'smokescreen'. Someone will know how easy it is to sway public opinion & reaction. It will be anticipated that many people will 'buy' this new's story without so much as a second thought --- because there are still folk out there who believe everything they read in the news. I'm not as easily bought. It helps to have been researching 'conspiracy theories' for so long. Having to be so analytical of so much literature of the years, I have a process of elimination which helps me to some times discern truth from fiction. In other words ... having treated this news headline as a 'conspiracy theory' and applying the same elimination process ... I can only come to one conclusion with this news story. I see this potentially as another of the 'smokescreens' ...

Maddy's 'abduction' doesn't seem to match the child trafficking profile. To assess that it does makes the whole thing too tidy ... there is so much more to the case than something as straightforward as this. Therefore I intuit this is but more smoke produced by the 'cloud making machine' (the media) to hide the real trail.

IF this reported sighting is proven to have been Maddy ... which I sense is close to being unlikely ... the only conclusion to be made would be that the unknown captors, who were trying to cut off her hair, must have recaptured her. If this was indeed the case then it means also that Maddy's appearance has been changed.

How then would they conceal her distinctive eye? Perhaps tinted contact lenses would be the answer to this. But this then begs the question of how do they get a 4 year old child to keep the lenses on her eyes if she doesn't want to? This then unearths many more of the unanswered questions which surround this case ... and points to something I am now more certain of than ever before ... Maddy is with someone she is familiar with and it is being related to Maddy as some kind of holiday or game. This would explain so much.