The pedo rings in Portugal are extensive and have been shown to include politicians, police and members of royalty, just as they did in Belgium. I feel sorry for the McCanns being so trusting as to leave their little girl alone for a while - they weren't to know they were holidaying in a country where the authorities are themselves perverts and the police a mixture of kiddy-fiddlers and incompetent drunks with a chip about the British.
The moral of the story; Devon is safest.