And with it, another “International Day of Missing Children”.  

But still there is no sign of Madeline McCann;  the little British girl who disappeared from her bed in 2007 while holidaying with her family in Portugal.

And where’s William?  William Tyrell, just 3 years old and wearing a spider man costume, taken from his nana’s yard in New South Wales in 2014.

William did not just walk out the front gate and wonder off into the bush.  Someone took him.  An adult took him.

And Madeline did not jump out of her nice warm bed and go exploring in the dark night.  Someone took her.  An adult took her.

These are two names among the list of hundreds of thousands of names of children who have vanished with no explanation from around the world.  They leave behind distraught families who live each day with guilt, confusion and no answers to their many questions.

But someone knows who took them, where they are and why.  Someone always knows. Withholding information is a crime.  You cannot think that just because you were not directly involved in an incident that you are not responsible.  

In the eyes of the law withholding information is a crime and in the eyes of humanity, it’s an unspeakable crime.

To hold the critical piece in a puzzle of a missing child and do nothing with that information is beyond the reaches of basic human decency. The partners or friends of those who are involved in paedophile rings, the girlfriend who knows something is not right but turns a blind eye.  

While we may not know all their names, International Missing Children’s Day is about not forgetting them.  Not forgetting their faces, their ages and the last thing they were wearing.  

Not forgetting the lifelong sentence families must endure while there are no answers.

This day reminds us of how stupid political and social correctness is.

This is neither the time, nor the topic where we should mind our own business.  This is the time to stick your nose into other people’s business and then speak up when the numbers don’t add up.

The perpetrators behind the disappearances of children know it’s them and maybe they think they have gotten away with it.  But someone else always knows.  

Someone always sees something, feels uncomfortable about a situation or overhears a conversation.

They are the ones our little lost kids need the most.  These are the people who the Madeline and Williams of tomorrow are relying on.

We must not forget them.