Inside the twisted 'abduction to order' rings which may have snatched Maddie McCann
Among child victims globally, 72 per cent of girls and 27 per cent of boys are trafficked for sexual exploitation, and the remainder for other reasons - including illegal adoption and organ harvesting.
The babies were sold for adoption, used for child labour, trafficked to Europe for prostitution or killed in ritual ceremonies.Stolen children intended for adoptions are usually whisked halfway across the world and brought up by a middle class family miles away from their homeland. Experts say that the rise in celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Madonna legally adopting 'orphans' from overseas has helped fuel the trade in illegal adoptions.
China's middle classes still value boys more highly than girls, because of the belief they will take care of and provide for their parents. Healthy male babies are known as “quality goods” by traffickers, and are reportedly bought for £3,600 in a poor province and sold for £10,000 in the richer suburbs.
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann - Trailer for Netflix Maddie documentary about world's most high profile missing child Guatemala has now made the practice illegal but, at the height of the problem, the sick trade was worth £75million a year – and was second only to the country’s banana business in terms of income.
It took the couple six years to track down their mother and reunite them, by which time they were teenagers. Abduction expert Dr Ernie Allen says: “There are many, many cases we can point to in which children have been found, have come home alive, after months, after years.
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