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My mom just said, and keeps saying since she's been missing that she thinks the poor girl was sold into white slavery. :( I've never heard of it but I guess in those countries they still have that stuff and it's always a possibilty.
I have yet to loose hope. Some children who have been missing for a long time(like years) have been found before. All you need is a miracle.
Oh boy.....this is all starting to get really depressing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maltese_Love
I just hope this little kid is found maybe sold to a family who has no kids, and theyv'e treated her right etc etc.
I'd hate to think she was sold into slavery.......but the sad facts are, she may have been.
Wom
DNA tested in Belgium not that of Madeleine
Wed Aug 8, 9:07 AM
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Belgian authorities said Wednesday that DNA taken from a bottle at a Belgian cafe, following a reported sighting of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, was that of a man, but the investigation continues.
Last week a child psychologist reported to police that she had seen a girl closely resembling the British youngster, who disappeared in Portugal in May, in a cafe in Tongeren, eastern Belgium.
The girl in question was accompanied by a man speaking with a Dutch accent and a women speaking English, in the town near the Dutch border.
Police had taken the bottle and drinking straw for DNA testing believing that the blonde girl seen at the cafe table had drunk from it.
The DNA test results "don't mean that the presence of Maddie can be excluded," the Tongeren prosecutor's office said in a statement announcing the DNA test results.
"It is possible that the man seen with the girl finished the bottle," the statement read, "we continue to investigate all the tips we have received".
The recovered DNA did not correspond with any samples in either the Belgian or Dutch police record banks.
Investigations into the four-year-old's disappearance are now focusing on blood stains recently found in the family's holiday apartment bedroom in the resort of Praia da Luz, southern Portugal.
Madeleine's parents refused to be drawn on the reported discovery of blood stains in their holiday apartment Tuesday, but insisted they believe she is still alive.
Mystery of Madeleine parents' secret emails 'intercepted by police'
Friends hit back over whispering campaign against Maddy's parents
By FIONA BARTON - Last updated at 11:12am on 9th August 2007
The friends who were with Madeleine McCann's parents on the night she
disappeared have tried to shake off a growing whispering campaign against them.
They have spoken out after a Portuguese newspaper claimed police had
'intercepted' emails and phone calls between Kate and Gerry McCann and their
friends.
These, the newspaper reported, provided 'decisive proof' that Madeleine was
not kidnapped, but died in the family's holiday apartment in Portugal.
Diario de Noticias, a respected national daily, said 'police sources'
insisted the intercepted 'messages' were key evidence.
Other newspapers have already made a series of lurid and unsubstantiated
claims about the McCanns.
Yesterday, stung by such claims, their friend Rachael Oldfield, a 36-year-
old London recruitment consultant, suggested the police could be 'leaking'
confidential information to the Press.
"I think there are some leaks coming from the police, but a lot of what I
have read recently has been completely untrue," she said.
"Whether a journalist has had a bit of information and made the rest up, or
the police are feeding some truth or untruths I just don't know."
Another of the party, Dr Fiona Payne, said: "You cannot attach any
significance to what is being reported (in the Portuguese press)."
Mrs Oldfield, who is married to doctor Matthew Oldfield and has a
one-year-old daughter, said: "It is very hurtful and it is all rather ludicrous. But it
is difficult to defend because the investigationand everything in it is
confidential. We don't want to jeopardise the investigation in any way or
Madeleine's life. We are a bit stuck, really."
The Oldfields were at dinner with the McCanns and the rest of their party,
Jane Tanner and Russell O'Brien from Exeter, Fiona and David Payne from
Leicester and an unnamed woman, when Madeleine vanished from her bed in the holiday
apartments in Praia da Luz on May 3.
The adults told police they had taken it in turns to check on their sleeping
children, including Madeleine and her twoyearold twin brother and sister, in
nearby apartments.
In statements to the Policia Judiciaria investigators, which were leaked to
Sol magazine, Mr McCann said he first checked his three children at 9.05pm and
thought it 'strange' that the bedroom door was ajar. He checked the window
and shutters, which were both closed, and left.
Jane Tanner said she took her turn ten minutes later and saw a darkhaired man
carrying a child in his arms as she came back.
Minutes after her return, according to police statements, Matthew Oldfield
checked the children and noticed nothing unusual.
Mrs McCann went at 10pm and said she found the apartment window open, heavy
metal shutters raised and her daughter missing.
Police say there are discrepancies between the timings given by the McCann
party and staff and other diners in the restaurant that night.
One Portuguese newspaper yesterday, which quoted 'police sources', said: "If
everything happened as the English holidaymakers say, in terms of their
checking the children, it would be almost impossible for a kidnap to have taken
place."
Mrs Oldfield said: "There would only be a small window for somebody to do it
(abduct Madeleine), but presumably if somebody had been watching our
movements then it would have been possible."
The McCanns, who on Tuesday denied stories in the Portuguese press that
implied they had 'accidentally' killed their daughter, spent an hour with
detectives yesterday afternoon.
They learned that a possible sighting of Madeleine in a Belgian cafe had been
largely discounted after tests on a drinking straw used by the little girl
spotted showed the DNA of an adult male.
_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article
_id=473408&in_page_id=1_
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...8&in_page_id=1)
Gosh these stories are just coming out of the woodwork everywhere, one does not really know what to believe, i hope the real truth will come out and they will eventually find lil madeline.
Over 100 days and still no closer to finding Madeleine :( Her parents are convinced she is still alive but they seem to be in the minority now :(
:( Poor, poor little Madeline- she must be scared out of her mind. I can only imagine what her parents are feeling right now, heartbroken, worried, scared, and so much more...
Prayers for little Maddie and her family... May the searchers stay strong, and never give up. :(
We haven't forgotten you Madeleine
http://www.findmadeleine.com/
Oh dear, this is not looking good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brody's Mum
Wom
Oh, no...oh, dear...
If this did happen...at least they will know, the waiting will be over...
I just hope they get their little girl back... :(
OH, MY, GOD! They say they find blood stains, then they say they are not maddie's. I just hope that the little girl is found safely and her parents can go on in life.
Pray that this is not the truth
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=8144
and some others
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstor...9520-19661219/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...e_id=1811&ct=5
I hope it's true that they find the "who" in this - and how and why it happened, whatever "it" was... :(
I hope this might be true - and not just the parents' wishful thinking.
They gave interviews to a Spanish newspaper, and so people have been keeping an eye out.
Prayers for all... :(
BUMP. Still praying...
OMG i just wish they would find her...
Keep an open mind folks - this is just so the police can ask her more probing questions and she has some legal protection
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6982969.stm
I just heard that on the news. I am not one to rush to judgment but I didn't think she showed a whole lot of emotion right after Maddie went missing. I would have been hysterical and many other moms in the same situation in the past have shown a lot more emotion. I figured she was probably sedated though.
Edit: Just heard that the father has now been called a suspect too. :(
A more in-depth article although who knows how much is truth and how much is just speculation
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...=1766&ito=1490
I refuse to believe that it was them...it just can't be..... :(
I just read the story in the news. This is bizarre. Gosh, I hope it isn't the parents. :(
Someone is bound to come out with the old "there's no smoke without fire" argument but I can't believe it in this case
I would like to see Madeleine's body found, even if it turns out her parents did it.
I haven't really followed the whole "Madeleine" thread, but realized after watching the news that her parent's are being formally charged with her disappearance.
I hope and pray they find this poor little girl and get to the bottom of it once and for all.
Latest Update - Gerry's Blog/Diary
Day 126 - 06/09/2007
Everyone will know that Kate attended for interview as a witness with the Portuguese police today. This is only the second time Kate has been interviewed and although it was a long day, going on past midnight, this was shorter than my second interview which lasted 13 hours! The suggestion that Kate is involved in Madeleines disappearance is ludicrous. Anyone who knows anything about the 3rd May knows that Kate is completely innocent. We will fight this all the way and we will not stop looking for Madeleine.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe...ann/index.html
I'd like him to explain why her blood was found in their rental car they rented 25 days AFTER she disappeared!
OMG! Have re-read the articles over here and they say much the same
.....when you think of the outpouring of love and support they have had, not to mention the donations....there has to be some mistake......
I'm sorry but even without really delving into the story I have suspected this from the beginning. I blew myself off at first b/c I just thought I watched too much tv but then I got to thinking about Susan Smith, and any other mother who did the same thing, and it just wouldn't leave my mind.
That said I still hope and pray that Maddie is alive.
So sad. :( We don't know what happened so I won't judge the parents,
but I don't think this little girl is still alive. I do wonder what to make of
the blood evidence they found in the rented apartment & car.
This is how i feel:
http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/sa...smiley-035.gif
Same here. At first I believed whole-heartedly Maddie's been kidnapped, now I'm not so sure. Of course, that's not down to press speculation convincing me otherwise, it's just there's something odd about the facts. The twins were left unharmed, blood found in the apartment...Quote:
Originally Posted by shais_mom
How easy would it have been for a child left alone in a strange environment to fatally injure herself?
And if this is indeed the case, her parents would have been charged with manslaughter. That's a huge ordeal to face. But of course, if she could have disappeared, now that's a different case entirely...
I strongly hope that the above is completely wrong, but I cannot help it cropping up in my mind. The whole situation is very sad and I hope an end to it is found once and for all. :(
right -Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Z
and seriously - why would her parents leave 3 LITTLE kids UNattended in a hotel in a strange land? I mean good grief people get in more trouble leaving their pets in cars!
I agree, shais_mom. People have told me you can't say that it was their fault. Well, maybe it is. If they had been SENSIBLE, RESPONSIBLE parents, they never would have left their children alone and (assuming Maddie's parents had nothing to do with the disappearance) Madeleine would still be with her family today, and none of this would have happened.
One thing that has puzzled me is why the twins never woke up while this was happening.......
What a mess! Like most people I believed the kidnap story from the start
Apparently, Madeleine's father, Gerry, is now a suspect as well.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6983604.stm
Yes, i was just watching Today & i heard that both of madeleine parents have been declared suspects.:(