Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Probably - but as they're the birth parents I'd be slightly more hesitant to take the child into care - but in every photo the "adoptive" parents have released, the child looks miserable.
Why is that? Isn't the child what matters?

And poor people usually look miserable... But I don't think you're suggesting that the state should take the children from poor families.

Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
I base it on the same kind of knowledge that tells me that impure iron will make a brittle blade - centuries of documented experience. I do not say all Roma are like this, not at all, but pretending there isn't a sub-group is like pretending there are no football hooligans.
What's documented throughout the centuries is a wealth of hatred, fear and lies about Europe's definite pariahs.

Is it impossible that she was sold? Nope. Is it impossible that she was handed over freely because the mother believed it was in her best interest, without any fee? Nope.

I hestitate to conclude on either until we have the facts, and I stick by the innocent until proven guilty-thing.