Missing youngster Madeleine McCann’s name is internationally recognised due to a worldwide publicity campaign; Ask how many children go missing in the UK every five minutes? No one knows; not even the police. Every five minutes a child is reported missing in Britain.
Lady Catherine Meyer, founder of Parent and Abducted Children Together (PACT) is appalled by this situation. “It is impossible to obtain an accurate picture of the scale and nature of the problem. There is no single centralised place to collect missing person’s data. We cannot establish for certain how many children are missing. You would have more chance of finding a stray dog,” she says.
In the UK virtually every type of crime is collated, coordinated and scrutinised to assist in tracking down offenders. The missing link is missing children. A Report concluded that it ‘is currently impossible to obtain an accurate and comprehensive picture of the nature or scale of the problem.’
In Britain the average person is detected by a surveillance camera fourteen times a day. It is difficult to drive any distance along British roads and avoid gantry, mobile and static police patrols, which in seconds match vehicle registration plates and documentation with a national data base, including the National Police Computer. In Britain and in many parts of Europe it is far easier to steal a child than it is to steal or drive an uninsured car. Britain and other parts of Europe, including Russia, offer untold opportunities for child-stealers; body-harvesters and pornographers of the vilest kind.
The Heartbreaking Statistics
The most accurate estimate of missing children in the UK is put at 100,000. This could be an underestimate. Children under eighteen years of age make up about two thirds of the 210,000 people reported as missing each year. Next time you watch a packed stadium at a premier sports occasion treble the numbers attending. This will give you an idea of the number of children who go missing in Britain each year.
Distressingly, snatched children are often spirited out of the country within hours. Alan Blackburn of the Police National Missing Persons Bureau says, “It takes 14 days before any case is considered serious and labelled ‘long term missing.’” When the police do act the information is rarely passed to other police forces, even those responsible for port and airport exits.
Institutionalised Cover Up
Some police forces actually go out of their way to draw a veil over the size of the problem. When questioned about missing children a spokeswoman for Scotland Yard’s Missing Persons Bureau said: “In the last 50 days there have been no cases that resemble the McCann one; no missing or abducted children.”
However, anyone who visits numerous independent missing children websites knows that this statement is quite absurd. The police are criminally lax or incompetent to a point where some may ask are they part of the cover-up?
Not surprisingly many are aware of the scale of the problem but think it is not a conversational subject. Missing children, in particular child abduction to feed the insatiable child pornography industry, may be one of the last taboos.
The Last Taboo
Is this scaremongering? MasterCard and American Express customers, plus other major credit card providers, have projected that the total number of British people accessing child porn sites exceeds 250,000. If the ‘business’ was not lucrative, if there were no viewers, the crime would not exist. The status of those who may be involved draws unthinkable conclusions. Operation Ore, an international collaboration between American and European investigators fizzled out on an incomprehensible raft of police ineptitude after rocks were lifted which were better left unturned. Too many public figures were being revealed as having links to child pornography.
The crime which dare not speak its name is international in scale. As in other parts of Europe an unknown number of child abductions and abuse, even murder, are linked to organisations or individuals whose power is omnipotent. In Italy, police records show that 1.850 minors typically went missing in 2005; in tiny Belgium alone the number of dossiers reported by the police was 1.022 in one year.
Police, for reasons of political correctness, often refuse to identify areas notorious for criminal activity. They consider it to be socially insensitive to do so. As a consequence many innocents fall victim to muggings and worse. These casualties were simply not informed or they were misinformed because of well-intentioned but wholly misguided social engineering policies. Is child abduction a no-go area too? Is the vexed matter too politically sensitive to be addressed, or are there more sinister reasons for silence? ©
Michael Walsh: Based in Spain, an experienced freelance journalist and writer. He applies a professional finish to your story or features; added marketing flair for product or service reviews. He is also able to publish the work of those who opt for self-publishing. All genres considered, he invites your interest and welcomes your e-mail. http://www.michaelwalsh.es/
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