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Unlock your phone and visit gov.uk.uk slash skills for life today. 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 firstborn, 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, quote,

It is harder to make a good story out of a missing black child,

than out of one with blonde hair and blue eyes, unquote.

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 desperate for answers.

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