I wasn’t trying to be “evasive,” I was summing up how the imagery of the teddy bear was corrupted to represent child abuse, which applies to the story you’ve linked.
I’ve read it more carefully, and it is definitely worded in the oddest way possible. This entire initiative is rather bizarre, and your interpretation of the teddy being an actual child is extremely chilling. In this context, the auction part can be translated as “trafficking,” something that could easily happen in the extreme privacy of a Masonic lodge.
This entire story might indeed be a coded message informing other lodges of a child trafficking “event,” a thought that is rather nauseating. Hopefully, this is just about a damn teddy bear.