When it comes to child pornography, if the parents are not clueless to what was happening with their child, were they in on the take?

Disclaimer This article is about four years old, but I am not naïve to think that there has not been dozens of replacements after the breakup of the ring mentioned therein. I take it as drug bust, for each major bust that makes the news, 10 other equally large hauls made it to their destination.

This article did not say if the 200 or so children saved were held Jaycee Dugard style in some basement, fed gruel and chained to a radiator, but for the sake of argument, let’s say they were. If they were kidnapped off the street or wherever, were their captors so good as to not have any sightings of these kids which had to be reported missing by their parents? In the 3rd world you hear storied of parents selling their children to wealthy people, brothels, factories and such, to settle debt, make money or eliminate and extra mouth to feed, but in industrial nations you would not find this. Were all these kids saved (and those who are still captive as we speak) from 3rd world nations, exported to industrial nations like ”sex biscuits” or something? If there are children from industrialized nations and they were not plucked off the corner waiting for a school bus, where were the fathers? If there were no fathers, the mothers never suspected anything, little Billy’s new friends, be they adult men or women that would take him away for hours and had him coming back all tired and maybe rough around the edges? If they were not as apathetic as to not see any tale-tale signs, or clueless not to notice, were they in on the take, being paid off to not notice or look too hard?