The investigation into missing toddler William Tyrrell has taken a new twist, with detectives looking at possible links to a pedophile ring.
Police fear three-year-old William was snatched while playing in his grandmother's yard in Kendall on the NSW mid-north coast last September.
Widespread searches have failed to find any sign of the little boy in the Spiderman suit.
After receiving fresh information in recent weeks, the NSW Homicide Squad is now exploring possible links between William's disappearance and a local pedophile ring.
The developments comes as William's parents spoke publicly for the first time about their ordeal.
William's mother pleaded with whoever had her son to just give him back.
"Take him to a church, take him to a police station, take him to a school. Give him to someone," she begged on a video released on Friday.
A team of detectives, including from the Sex Crimes Squad, is working on the case.
"One of those lines of inquiry relates to people we suspect being involved in a pedophile ring," Detective Superintendent Mick Willing said.
"We are vigorously pursuing that line of inquiry and this investigation is moving at a very fast pace."
The latest twist in the case comes after police searched bushland in Bonny Hills, about 20 km from Kendall, last month for any trace of William.
