I don't think you can call this a 'new theory', I have always suspected this as a good possibility, though reluctant to suggest it. Whether the police suspected it or not is another question.
Scott Palmer, Newshub
An international think-tank has revealed an explosive new theory about what happened to missing British toddler Madeleine McCann - she was kidnapped by an international paedophile gang.
Madeleine disappeared from the holiday apartment her family was staying at in Portugal in 2007, and hasn't been seen since.
The shocking allegations were made by John Whitehead, president of conservative human rights organisation Rutherford Institute and an expert on child sex abuse.
He believes she was taken by a sex trafficking gang the same way other children are taken.
"Oh I think she was. Kids are being snatched all over the world," Whitehead told UK tabloid the Daily Star.
"When you look at migrant children coming across the border in the US, they just go missing.
"It's big business. You can get more money than from drugs and guns because you have kids doing multiple sex acts a day and they're being filmed. A child might be raped up to 6000 times in a five-year period of servitude and it's all money."
His comments come as Portuguese detectives investigate a convicted paedophile who was in the country at the time.
Officials have reportedly identified a German man who was in Portugal at the same time Madeleine disappeared.
Madeleine McCann investigators probe convicted child killer from Germany
The Telegraph
A convicted paedophile and serial killer from Germany has emerged as a figure of interest in the hunt for missing Madeleine McCann, according to a former Portuguese detective.
Martin Ney, 48, who is serving life in prison for abducting and killing three German children between 1992 and 2001, is reportedly being investigated by officers from Portugal's Policia Judiciaria.
The 48-year-old child sex monster is said to closely resemble a photofit issued by detectives in the case and was understood to have been in Portugal in 2007, when the three-year-old was abducted.
Ney, who is in jail in his native Germany, has previously been interviewed by detectives investigating Madeleine's disappearance but has denied any involvement.
Originally from Hamburg, the predatory paedophile targeted children on holiday sometimes entering their apartments or tents wearing a mask and carrying a weapon and other times using camouflage in order to ambush them.
In 1992 he killed 13-year-old, Stefan Jahr, the following year he struck again, abducting and murdering eight-year-old Dennis Rostel and then in 2001 he killed eight-year-old Dennis Klein.
He is also suspected of killing another child in Holland in 1998 and one in France in 2004.
All of Ney's previous victims have been boys, but police working on the McCann case have continued to consider him as a person of interest.
After training as a teacher he is known to have travelled extensively, including to Ecuador, Peru and Portugal.
Police issued a photofit of a suspect in 2013
He resembles a photofit issued in 2013 of a man who was spotted acting suspiciously in Praia da Luz around the time Madeleine was abducted.
Clarence Mitchell, the McCann's spokesman said: "It might be him and he fits the profile, he is a known predatory paedophile and he's a foreigner.
"It is quite possible and plausible police are looking at him again but it could be someone else. There is a degree of credibility it is Ney but we cannot speculate.
"Ney has been previously interviewed by detectives over Madeleine's abduction, and denied it. He is in a German jail now."
He added: "Kate and Gerry are not in a position to comment on this, nor would they because it is operational detail and they will not discuss it."
Last Friday marked the 12th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance from her parents' holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.
Scotland Yard currently has a small team of detectives continuing to work on any potential leads.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard refused to comment on the claims that a foreign paedophile was now being probed as part of the investigation.
But Goncalo Amaral, the controversial former Portuguese police chief, who was sacked in 2007 after claiming the McCanns were involved in their daughter's disappearance, told the Australian media that a jailed German paedophile was now the main suspect.
Last week Cressida Dick, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police confirmed that a small dedicated team, from Operation Grange, continued to investigate Madeleine's disappearance and were following up a number of lines.
She also said they were awaiting a decision from the Home Office whether to continue funding the unit for another year.
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