Here on Stalin Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories

and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the

frustration of why and how this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

Listen, our discretion is advised.

One child was born to immigrant parents who had recently separated.

Rumors would swirl that he was sold and sent to Africa.

His would be the longest running abduction case in the United Kingdom.

One child was born to a happily married Caucasian couple.

It would be their first born, but her abduction from a London hospital would

receive worldwide headlines before her safe recovery two weeks later. Hers would be the first

abduction from a maternity ward in the United Kingdom. The difference being the media exposure

the two cases received and the intensity of the police investigation. We have all heard

of missing white woman syndrome and the assumed preference the public has towards pretty white

upper middle class victims. English journalist Philip Henshaw wrote, it is harder to make a good

story out of a missing black child than out of one with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Accusations of racism being the catalyst between the differences these two cases were treated.

Two cases were the only difference being the colour of the baby's skin.

All that matters though, or that we should be focusing on, is the missing child was not

been seen in more than 30 years, leaving his family

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