*UPDATE*

TRACY, Calif. – In what Protect.org called a major change in tactics that could have nationwide impact, police in this small city east of San Francisco now are targeting a new classification of suspects as they continue their search for 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, who disappeared March 27 from a mobile home.

According to local newspaper the Tracy Press, police are investigating known child pornography traffickers in the area as possible suspects in the disappearance.

“While visiting the homes of ‘registered’ sex offenders is common in missing children cases, the public is mostly unaware that U.S. law enforcement has also identified hundreds of thousands of criminals trafficking

in child pornography,” according to a Protect.org press release. “Fewer than 2 percent of these suspects are ever investigated, as police and lawmakers focus on other priorities.

“If authorities follow through on their plan, they will seek 60 subpoenas and then locate and interview these individuals. Tracy could then expect a wave of successful child pornography and child abuse investigations and prosecutions”

UPDATE

A horrifible story took a turn for the horrific April 10 with the arrest of Melissa Huckaby, a Sunday school teacher who was charged with the murder of Sandra Cantu, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in an irrigation pond in late March. Prosecutors are considering rape and sexual molestation charges as well.