Little Madeleine - she could be anywhere

[Daisy and Delilah]

I saw on CNN today that there are some big stars rallying around to support the effort to find her. Her poor family remains in my thoughts and prayers. BE SAFE MADDY!!!

[jackie]

I feel so sad for her and her family.

I hope this makes people more aware not to leave their children unattended.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Its been 11 days now and still no nearer to finding Maddy. Please keep her and her family in your prayers

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

This is really hearthbraking..... ; I feel so sorry for that little girl, and for her family

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Going to *bump* this until that little sweetheart is found

[Pawsitive Thinking]

The latest on Maddy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6656451.stm

and spare a thought for Ben too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Needham

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Pretty please, can today be the day she is found safe and well???

[wombat2u2004]

OMG......11 days.
I sure wish she is safe and well wherever she is, and be returned home.
Wom

[Pawsitive Thinking]

I know I keep posting about this but a fund has now been launched for anyone who wishes to help with the search for this little girl.

http://www.findmadeleine.com/

[Jods]

Just wanted to add the parents have asked that she be called madeleine because she wont answer to maddie. I guess they just fear someone will see her and if they call her maddie they might loose the chance at getting her back Poor lil thing...

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Just wanted to add the parents have asked that she be called madeleine because she wont answer to maddie. I guess they just fear someone will see her and if they call her maddie they might loose the chance at getting her back Poor lil thing...

Good point - note change to title thread

[Hellow]

Bump

[Catty1]

Belgium contacts Dutch police after reported Madeleine sighting

Fri Aug 3, 9:07 AM

BRUSSELS (AFP) - Belgian authorities are taking seriously a reported sighting of missing British girl Madeleine McCann and have contacted Dutch police to help with the investigation, a local prosecutor said Friday.
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DNA test results are expected next week on a bottle taken from a restaurant where a girl resembling four-year-old Madeleine was seen, local prosecutor Katja Van Doren told AFP.

A child psychologist reported seeing the girl with a man and woman in the restaurant in the Dutch-speaking town of Tongeren, near the Dutch border east of Brussels.

The couple were said to have been acting in a suspicious manner.

Belgian police have issued an identikit picture of the man involved, said to be in his 40s with black hair and stubble on his prominent chin.

He was said to speak with a Dutch accent, while the woman spoke to him in English.

Madeleine vanished on May 3 from a hotel room in southern Portugal where she and her two-year-old twin siblings were sleeping while her parents were dining at a nearby restaurant.

The McCanns have launched an international campaign to find their daughter which has drawn the support of celebrities including soccer star David Beckham and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

"We are taking it seriously and we are doing everything we can to investigate," Tongeren acting prosecutor Van Doren said of the reported sighting.

"The local police are investigating to try to see whether it was the girl who disappeared and we are in touch with Dutch police," she added.

The prosecutor's office was also in touch on Thursday with the British embassy in Brussels which is monitoring the situation.

Police collected the bottle that the girl had drunk from at the cafe and were searching for the couple's car.

"We don't know whether there will be enough DNA to make an identification," the Tongeren prosecutor said.

Local magistrate Bruno Coppin voiced caution.

"We want to collaborate with the international enquiry but for the time being... there is no information which could lead us to the girl," he said.

The Belga news agency reported that the girl had blonde hair and striking blue-green eyes. The three people spotted drove away in a black Volvo with Belgian plates.

Portuguese police in charge of the case said they had received no official word of the investigation ongoing in Belgium.

A spokesman for the McCanns, Justine McGuinness, said the parents of the missing girl would have no comment on the latest 'sighting'.

Similar enquiries have been launched in European countries after reported sightings of Madeleine but none proved useful to the search for the missing girl.

Dutch police last month arrested a man who allegedly attempted to defraud the parents of the kidnapped British girl by claiming he knew how to find her.

[jackie]

Fingers (and toes) crossed.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

There is still hope