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Sunday Mirror is reporting that a man in the UK has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann who went missing almost six years ago with her family on vacation in Portugal. Originally, Portuguese police suspected the parents but they were cleared. The case had been cold until Scotland Yard was convinced to reopen the case in the past few months. It didn't take them long to make an arrest after a lawyer in the UK told police he met a man who said he had seen Madeleine McCann alive this summer.
Police in the UK released the following statement: “A man was arrested in September on suspicion of possession of drugs and conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children. He has been bailed pending further inquiries. An investigation is ongoing into this matter and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.”
Excellent misleading headline.
ReplyDeletePlease don't tell us she was kidnapped as part of some child pornography slave ring. It breaks my heart to think of some little angel suffering and makes my blood boil thinking about those subhuman pieces of shit that could do something like to these innocents.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you really think happened to her?
DeleteI assumed abused and murdered or just murdered - didn't automatically think of kidnapped by child porn ring.
DeleteEvery parents nightmare this story.
ReplyDelete@texas rose. sex trafficking is a huge industry. in this country the number of runaway kids who are victims is enormous. the fbi has been running a special task force since the girls have been taken state to state and pimped out. because madeline was never recovered, no body, no other evidence, i fear for her safety. if she is alive and recovered i hope they get the perps and they never ever see the light of day ever again
ReplyDeleteAmazing they would be that brazen to snatch a girl from a tourist family but they got away with it, so far. Usually they do grab kids from poor families no one will miss or runaways or in some countries the parents will sell the girls into it.
ReplyDeleteThis is the reason why we long ago stopped crossing the border into Mexico for vacations and such. Too many horror stories about kidnappings.
DeleteLa Descarada - comparing Portugal to Mexico is incredibly ignorant. I'm very familiar with the Algarve. It is a very safe, low-crime region in a Western European nation, not a failed state run by mass-murdering drug kingpins.
DeleteThe punishment for people found guilty of peddling children should be harsh beyond belief. If done for monetary gain as opposed to someone who will cry "I'm sick", the monies should be confiscated and given to recovered victims for counseling services.
ReplyDeleteHow horriffic for her family. Even moreso because they were suspects for a long time. Hard to know whether to hope she is alive, knowing the hell she's experiencing, or at peace in the next world somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI hope she is found.
ReplyDeleteThe parents left her alone in a hotel room while they went to dinner ~sigh~ wtf?
Seriously, WTF were they thinking?! This story haunted me for quite some time. I hope she is alive. I remember a psychic specifically saying Robert M was linked to this- wonder if he was the one arrested. He was already questioned initially in the early investigation.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing this is another dead end. Wherever she is, I hope she isn't suffering.
ReplyDelete@lostathome Agreed. I cannot imagine what all she might have been through, if still alive. Well, I can, but don't want to, rather. Horrifying stuff.
DeleteIf she's still alive I wonder if she'd even remember her family since it's been 6 YRS and she was taken when she was so young....
ReplyDeleteThere was a piece on the news here, about a year ago on kidnapping teens for prostitution. If the kids don't make them enough $, they sell their organs on the black market. (We are in san diego, so they take them across the border). Kids as young as 13. Usually female, with families that are not involved. Outrageous that this happens. Sickening to hurt children. Poor little Maddy.
ReplyDeleteA sad and egregious case of child neglect. I will always hold her selfush and reckless parents partially responsible for her fate. Who leaves a tgree-year-old alone sbd unsupervised so they can go out to dinner? People who don't deserve to be parents.
ReplyDeleteI still think her parents did it (by accident). I don't care if they've been cleared by the police. The police make mistakes all the time.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, I doubt this will come to anything. I think it will be like when they announced they'd caught the guy who murdered JonBenet Ramsey, and then it turned out he wasn't even involved in the crime.
@Krissie: The cops never caught anyone for the JonBenet Ransey killing.
ReplyDeleteYou're thinking of that insane pedophile that was in Thailand & claimed to have done it.
He did that, because he was close to getting thrown into a Thai prison for child rape, so this was his way of getting back to the states as he had no money for the flight.
As soon as he got back, it was easy to show that all of his knowledge of the Ramsey death was from the internet or books.
JonBenet was killed by her then 10 year old brother & the parents covered it up.
@Becca...That is what I always concluded too. That the brother killed Jon Benet and the parents covered it up.
ReplyDeleteI'm from Portugal and what I find weird is that the police detective that always thought the parents were guilty was taken off the case and fired. I also don't understand, even though this is a horrible situation and no one deserves to go through it, why this case had the amount of visibility it did when thousands of children go missing every year.
ReplyDelete@Catarina,
ReplyDeleteProbably because Madeleine is cute little white girl, and the family was on vacation from another country. In the US a kidnapping or murder will make the national news or get a lot of attention when the child is white.
I'd like to hope she is still alive and she'll be found but I can't imagine if she was taken the kind of life she was shoved into. I still remember finding out Elizabeth Smart had been found. That was very shocking and such amazing news. That doesn't usually happen.
Wouldn't it be crazy if by some crazy turn of events, jonbenet was actually killed by a washed up movie star?
ReplyDeleteWAIT WHAT?!?!
ReplyDeleteHow did I not know that Jon Benet even HAD a ten-y/o brother less that he is secretly probably her murderer and her poor parents covered it up.
That's super weird if true and also suggests some awful childhood sexual trauma (right?) if it were the brother.
Oh wow I had never heard that, huh!
@hunter - Oh yes...there was a brother! At some point it was discovered that he and Jon Benet were up after the parents were asleep and went to the kitchen to eat pineapple. Jon Benet had pineapple in her stomach according to the coroner report. The brother was the last one to see her alive. To me it always explained the parents' behavior.
ReplyDeleteI always thought he might have tried something sexual with her and it went wrong (like suffocated her). He alerted the parents and the parents staged the whole house/scene to look like an intruder.
In the 911 call the mother made, she said something to the effect that the boy was not in the house at the moment, but you end up hearing the boy in the background and she tried very poorly to hush him up while on the phone.
The ransom note found was with a notepad in the home for the exact amount of the husband's bonus that year...down to the cent. It was an odd amount like $125,675.25.
In the basement she was found in, they broke the window from the INSIDE so that the glass ended up on the outside. They claimed that is where the intruder entered the home. There was also an undisturbed spider web that the "intruder" would have knocked down had he entered through the window from the outside.
She had a neat noose around her neck when found and was clothed in her pajama and favorite blanket with her favorite toy nearby. When her father "discovered" her, he never held her close. He carried her like a stiff board at arm's length all the way up to where the cops and family were gathered.
They found unidentified DNA on Jon Benet, but never could determine who it was from. The father was eliminated. I can't be sure they ever took a sample from the brother.
Lots of details in the case. There is NO WAY that this case should have gone unsolved. There have been THOUSANDS of cases with less evidence that have been solved. This one was full of damning evidence in so many ways.
So sad.
Can't say I buy the "JonBenet's brother did it" theory, honestly. I have to quote Colin Quinn on SNL a few years after the murder:
ReplyDelete"Yup, it would take the brilliant criminal mind of a nine-year-old to baffle the law for three years."
Jon Benet's mother accidentally killed her in a fit of rage due to Jon Benet's constant bed-wetting and because J.B. would not be the perfect barbie doll Pasty wanted. Patsy Ramsey was losing her marbles and was mentally unstable. The brother was not involved. The housekeeper testified and revealed all of this info. John Ramsey hired pitbull lawyers and sued (media and journalists) nonstop to keep this under wraps.
ReplyDeleteThe housekeeper revealed what happened early on...and money, power, and the influence of John Ramsey --along with threatening litigation constantly-- shut up nearly all involved in the novice Boulder Police station. Those who tried to speak out were shunned or sued. John bought off or shut up those who could have put Pasty away.
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