In Western Europe, Poor Children Kept as Thieves
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The theft follows a simple pattern. A  little girl asks a customer in a shop for help reaching  something on a shelf, and while he or she is distracted another  child steals a wallet or cash from their pocket or bag.
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Â· 31 children worldwide rescued, 15 in BritainÂ· Film files seized include babies being raped
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The Netherlands arrests 19 people said to have trafficked Nigerian children into the West to work as sex slaves.
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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Three-year-old is first foreign child to be taken, but residents blame criminals rather than insurgents.
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Families shell out a small fortune to send their kids back to school.
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Children from poorer homes are up to a year behind their more privileged peers by the age of three.
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More than thirty children are rescued from possible abuse after police smash an international paedophile ring.
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The BBC's Tamsin Smith reports from Naples on the grim struggle to teach children in a Mafia stronghold.
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Eighteen people, mainly French and Spanish, face charges over the alleged attempted child abduction.
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That's how the father of one of the 'Barbie Bandits' describes their fall from grace. How nice middle-class girls became strippers and alleged bank robbers.
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Desperate parents are fleeing  the poverty of Romania's countryside in search of work  elsewhere in the European Union, leaving their children behind  to be cared for by others.
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Security guards have caught a three-year-old boy who was helping his mother -- by trying to steal clothes from a shop in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
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Research finds a significant number of inmates come from some of Scotland's poorest areas.
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Police are trying to find the owner of more than 60,000 euros sent to a boy in Norfolk by mistake.
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This was the scene recently at a children's home in Antigua, Guatemala, before police removed 46 babies, suspecting they had been kidnapped or coerced from their parents to be put up for foreign adoption.
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The international paedophile ring smashed in Austria indicates the ease with which criminal gangs have been able to exploit the internet to make money out of child abuse.