You find here and there in the dark confusion of English laws the impress of this horrible truth, like the foot-print of a savage in a forest.
Comprachicos, the same as Comprapequenos, is a compound Spanish word signifying Child-buyers.
The Comprachicos traded in children.

They bought and sold them.

They did not steal them.

The kidnapping of children is another branch of industry.

And what did they make of these children?
Monsters.
Why monsters?
To laugh at.
The populace must needs laugh, and kings too.