The most heinous crime you can think of is kidnapping a child. With just one act, that for the kidnapper is nothing more than a step towards making some easy money, a child’s entire world is turned on its head.

The love and care, the pampering and pleasing of whims and fancies is suddenly replaced with brute force, harsh words and physical abuse. Puzzled and bewildered the child wonders what has happened to his or her fairy-tale world and who are these monsters that have suddenly replaced the angels in his or her life?

A horror story that for some children never ends, who are never found and either end up in some ditch or after several years appear on the roads as beggars to be exploited even more and these angels who could be going to schools in immaculate uniforms with tasty lunch boxes in their bags and farewell kisses from their mothers end up on street corners begging for alms that, in most cases are taken away by their handlers and they are left to contend with leftovers outside eateries to satisfy their hunger.

This is more than murder because murder at least is an end to........

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