Madeleine's Family Call for End to Criticism of Missing Girl's Parents

The family of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared a week ago yesterday, called for an end to criticism of the police efforts to find her and for everyone to work together to find the missing three-year-old.
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Bill Charles The McCann relatives miss the whole point in seeking to stop criticism of Madeleine's parents. The three young children should NOT have been left alone. By such irresponsible action from so-called "middle class professionals", they alone are responsible for Madeleine's abduction. In addition it appears that the McCann's lied about the door being locked. If true, that is inexcusable, thinking more of their own reputations than their daughter's safe return. I read somewhere that if the McCanns had been "lower class", the odium heaped on them by the largely pro-McCann British press would have been vitriolic 5/21/2007
A.C.Pratas I am a Portuguese citizen and a mother, whose only son was stolen by a Portuguese couple. I feel particularly for little Madeleine and her parents.

While on holiday in Spain last year, my only son was abducted by my estranged husband. I failed to get my son back after battling with the Portuguese legal system and police.

My estranged husband and his wife are wealthy and have influence in political and diplomatic circles.

I have been following the Portuguese press and it appears there are many women whose children have been abducted under Madeleine's circumstances and they complain that nothing or little is done for them because they are Portuguese and poor.

One year and a month have passed. Presently I do not know if my only son is dead or alive. In my struggle to contact my son, the couple who stole my only son attempted killing me, and having failed, tried having me illegally imprisoned (there was NO court order for my arrest). I know my son was drugged - in the few communications I had with him, he told me how he was locked up for hours until a doctor would come and then he would lose consciousness.

Today I do not know if my only son is dead or alive, nor if alive, what consequences all the drugs he was forced to take, have done to him.

It is time that these hideous crimes against children in Portugal are revealed and put an end to.





5/10/2007
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