http://ecpat.net/EI/Publications/Trafficking/Factsheet_Portugal.pdf
"In 2007, Portuguese and British police investigating the abduction of the English toddler Madeleine McCann, who was
kidnapped in Praia da Luz, Portugal, believed that an international child abuse network could have trafficked her. The
British police also provided a list of UK sex offenders that had recently travelled to Portugal.18
This would not be the first time that a child was kidnapped and trafficked in Portugal by a paedophile ring. In 1998,
an 11-year-old Portuguese boy called Rui Pedro Mendonça vanished while walking home from school in the northern
Portuguese town Lousada. A month later, he was sighted with a middle-aged man at Disneyland, in Paris. Three years
later, images of Rui Pedro being sexually abused were reportedly uncovered during an international police operation
that cracked a global paedophile network. More than 200 paedophiles in 13 countries had exchanged more than
750,000 images of thousands of children through a private internet club called Wonderland. Later in 1999, another
Portuguese child was kidnapped and seen with two Italian men in Switzerland. Unfortunately, none of the boys have
ever been found."
"In 2007, Portuguese and British police investigating the abduction of the English toddler Madeleine McCann, who was
kidnapped in Praia da Luz, Portugal, believed that an international child abuse network could have trafficked her. The
British police also provided a list of UK sex offenders that had recently travelled to Portugal.18
This would not be the first time that a child was kidnapped and trafficked in Portugal by a paedophile ring. In 1998,
an 11-year-old Portuguese boy called Rui Pedro Mendonça vanished while walking home from school in the northern
Portuguese town Lousada. A month later, he was sighted with a middle-aged man at Disneyland, in Paris. Three years
later, images of Rui Pedro being sexually abused were reportedly uncovered during an international police operation
that cracked a global paedophile network. More than 200 paedophiles in 13 countries had exchanged more than
750,000 images of thousands of children through a private internet club called Wonderland. Later in 1999, another
Portuguese child was kidnapped and seen with two Italian men in Switzerland. Unfortunately, none of the boys have
ever been found."