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Ben Needham.....another missing child

twinkles**stars — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:37:58 GMT

Re: Ben Needham.....another missing child

the_great_she_elephant — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:48:21 GMT

How, headtwrenchingly sad. Coping with the death of a child is horrendous enough but it's just impossible to imagine what the anguish of never knowing would be like. Wouldn't it be wonderful if recent events lead to new leads and some kind of closure.

Re: Ben Needham.....another missing child

twinkles**stars — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:49:11 GMT

One suggestion has been that this little girl may be related to Ben eg: father / daughter. Do you think there is a resemblence?

Re: Ben Needham.....another missing child

twinkles**stars — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:50:54 GMT

I do hope so she ele. Closure (if there is ever such a thing) must be what they all need, one way or another.

Re: Ben Needham.....another missing child

twinkles**stars — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:58:52 GMT

Large family of Bulgarian Roma gypsies living close to Sliven city in Bulgaria.

Re: Ben Needham.....another missing child

twinkles**stars — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:59:20 GMT

Little blond haired girl part of that family?

Re: Ben Needham.....another missing child

icyfroth — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 02:12:11 GMT

@twinkles**stars wrote:
Little blond haired girl part of that family?

Wouldn't think so.

There are whole organisations thriving on the proceeds of child trafficking. It's hardly surprising that some groups will cash in on that and home in on unwanted or abandoned children.

It's not a new thing, especially in times of catastrophe, war, or widespread poverty:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_farming

"Baby farming was a term used in late-Victorian Era Britain (and, less commonly, in Australia and the United States) to mean the taking in of an infant or child for payment; if the infant was young, this usually included wet-nursing (breast-feeding by a woman not the mother). Some baby farmers "adopted" children for lump-sum payments, while others cared for infants for periodic payments. Though baby farmers were paid in the understanding that care would be provided, the term "baby farmer" was used as an insult, and improper treatment was usually implied. Illegitimacy and its attendant stigma were usually the impetus for a mother's decision to put her children "out to nurse" with a baby farmer, but baby farming also encompassed foster care and adoption in the period before they were regulated by British law.

Who remembers reports of orphaned children gone missing in the aftermath of the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004?

click here: GuardsTo Protect Tsunami Orphans

Re: Ben Needham.....another missing child

punch*drunk — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 02:21:25 GMT

In the first couple of pics of the age proression he looks just like one of my sons friends.......I went and then realised Ben is older than that now. Coincidently my sons friend is named Ben.