I know some immigrants (legal) from Russia, and they said kidnapping of Russian children and putting them up for adoption as orphans is quite a business. Kidnappers go after children with parents because they are well taken care of and healthy and don’t have adjustment issues that real orphans have. These kidnapped kids are much more adoptable. And, of course, they get them young enough so that they are cute as all get out....., and can’t speak yet, so they can’t tell anyone what is really going on.
My friends were terrified when they had to go to Moscow for any reason.
This doesn’t surprise me, and I do believe it.
I don't think that any thoughtful person can deny the existence of child smuggling....it's frequently in the news and is a recognized international problem affecting many countries.
That being said, it seems that in this specific instance there are serious irregularities in the journalistic integrity of the story. Just because child smuggling exists doesn't mean that all accounts of it are true, and the BBC has garnered a reputation for fabrication, particularly recently.
Varna, Bulgaria is a tourist destination.
The police chief’s job in a tourist spot includes making the speech that its safe to come there.
This kind of reporting, which went out on the “BBC World” channel as well, tends to discourage tourism in his town.
Who wants to take their small children to a town where this kind of stuff is going on?
After the Madeline McCann kidnapping in Portugal, this issue is on the minds of people in the UK.
The BBC is the “Hate America Network” and slanted badly, but this story is probably more credible than some of the other crap they put on.