Gypsies purchased a 5 year old to exploit as a dancing attraction

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

So we should take all Roma children living away from their parents, eh? Sounds like a brilliant plan, if only we hadn't done that already and ended up with a buttload of abuse....

Or should we only take the good-looking blondes away?

This child was abandoned by her mother.

The other pale girl could even be her twin - I'd bet she was sold for money, because her parents are living in a slum.

I'm ok with Travellers, if they want to look down on "Country" people, marry within their own tribes... Fine. However, they need to abide by the same laws as the rest of us. Doubtless this women didn't want to put the girl up for adoption because she was more likely to be picked up by a non-Roma couple, so she sold her daughter to a pair of Roma who, frankly, don't even appear to be able to look after themselves.

That's abuse at a fundamental level - the child needs to be taken into care, sent to school.