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Madeleine McCann: Was She Stolen to Order for Pedophile Ring?
August 07, 2008 12:51 PM
By Stephen Webb, ABC News London
More leads in the Madeleine McCann case emerged today. Newly released documents mentioned a potential sighting in Brussels, Belgium, reported just days after the British girl vanished. It has also been reported that an informant told British police that Madeleine had been "stolen to order" by an international pedophile ring.
Madeleine McCann disappeared in May 2007 while on holiday in Portugal with her parents. She was 3 years old at the time.
The investigation by Portuguese police had been shelved, but this month they released a 20,000 page dossier detailing their enquiries. As the dossier is gradually examined, new details have been reported by the media.
According to the Reuters News Agency, an unnamed source told British police that a spotter had taken photographs of Madeleine while she was on holiday and sent them to a pedophile ring in Belgium. The informant said the ring then ordered her kidnapping three days later on May 3, 2007. Speaking to ABC News, police confirmed they'd passed on the information to Portuguese police but it was “unsubstantiated information” and that “all possible lines of enquiry were conducted”.
The U.K. newspaper the Daily Mail reported that a Belgium woman, Line Compere, 31, had told local police she saw a young girl with blue eyes and blond hair on a tram in Brussels at about 8.45 a.m. May 15, 2007. On June 1 , 2007, she told police: “When I saw the photo, it immediately jumped out to me that there was a big resemblance to the little girl on the tram.”
More details from the case notes, as well as potential leads, are likely to emerge soon.
Photo Credit: Associated Press
August 7, 2008 in Stephen Webb | Permalink | User Comments (8)
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Main Stream Media is only just NOW saying this?
Thank God for the internet. I read (several months ago) about the possibility of a pedophile ring involvement -- with details and history of the ring -- within the "fringe" media (you know -- the stuff that reports actual news)
Posted by: Joe | Aug 7, 2008 1:15:36 PM
I feel so bad for the child. Also, i do feel bad for her parents. (Madeleine) there has to be a way of finding her? I think that we should start a fund to help find her. A fund for people looking for her and for a reward. Those people who stoled her sure are stupied If they knew the 10 commendment and took them to heart it would,t have happened. they will be judged by God. Gods word says do not fear what one can do to the body, but fear the one what he can do to the soul and body which is God our creater of all peoples and nations
Posted by: julie | Aug 7, 2008 5:52:08 PM
I've suspected for some time that it's been a child porn or pedophile ring involved. They protect their own, have people in authority as members, and it's not surprising that the police haven't gotten far with this case. My heart goes out to the McCanns - I hope that one day they are reunited with their daughter.
Posted by: Mel O. | Aug 7, 2008 7:11:45 PM
Hidden messages in media interviews from Kate and Gerry McCann:
http://www.backwardstate.com/backward_state_website_031.htm
Posted by: Shawn | Aug 10, 2008 9:58:54 AM
^ That has got to be the most ridiculous thing I've heard, hidden messages by playing their answers backwards? Did the IQ requirement for natural selection just suddenly plummet?
You'd think in the time the owner of that site spent on making that crap up they could have done something more considerate, like offer condolences perhaps?
Posted by: Seth | Aug 10, 2008 12:57:24 PM
I am a mother myself,and NEVER you leave alone THREE children that age,with their wealth,they could have hire a nanny,or baby sitter.It is absurd to expect that nothing will happen leaving young children alone.Her reactions to the disapearance,of Maddie, make me beleive she was NOT SAD at all.And she was so controled,it is like she knew "something".
Posted by: Becky W | Aug 11, 2008 11:59:39 AM
Oh! OK! "Reuters News Agency" (is that the one next to the Laundromat?) says someone followed Maddie around taking photos, so it must be true. Why didn't Mr Einstein at "Reuters News Agency" pick up the phone and tell the neglectful parents to forego the fish and chips, wine and fine company and stay in for the night with their boring little kids they couldn't wait to get away from? Love the hindsight. Stupid hypemongers.
Posted by: Marianne | Aug 13, 2008 10:19:38 AM
Prayers go out to Maddie's family who must have a terrible time daily thinking of her and her whereabouts.
God is good and will some how come through for them and reunite them. How horrible for the parents to think of what has happened to their little angel... until they know where she is and they get her back, may God be with them all.
Posted by: Sally | Aug 26, 2008 8:32:32 PM
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