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The truth might come out one day.
Madeleine McCann cops ask Home Office for more money to continue search for missing child
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The truth might come out one day.
People in high places? One does wonder how it can go on until the police end it. Astonishing really, I can only assume there is some ring fenced money on the side not coming out big budget, so essentially a perpetual case that will always be kept going for as long it's handed the special money.
I mean if you’re that bored of it not just scroll on by instead of taking the time to click the specific post and formulate a response?
Soldato
Exactly - people go on holidays without kids and get grandparent(s) to stay or children come over to stay. A colleague used to have her nieces round for a week whilst her sister and BIL had a week of canoeing and other activities.
You can’t go on an adults type holiday with the kids.
Soldato
My first foreign holiday, I was 6.5. If I needed to go to bed early. My parents sat on the balcony having a drink. They wouldn’t dare leave me on my own.
Caporegime
Must be a new book coming out.
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As a parent, I agree that they were all neglectful by leaving their kids alone. They did check on them regularly, though I wouldn't consider that much in the way of mitigation.
It bugs me that people talk as if the McCanns were the only ones who left their kids alone that night, when their mates were doing it too.
It got a huge amount of coverage despite the fact that she was gone for ~3 weeks, with no evidence of foul play, while her mother and family continued to incriminate themselves on camera. It arguably received a disproportionally large amount of coverage compared to the McCann case.
The Matthews case was the largest police investigation in West Yorkshire since the Ripper case. 10% of the entire local police force was working on it, which is more than the McCann case has ever received.
Nothing to do with social class, and everything to do with the fact that the lies unravelled pretty quickly.
There must be hundreds of other missing persons cases that have gone cold, and neither received the attention nor the funding that this case has had.
It's been 16 years and the funding appears limitless. The chances of success, sadly, are anything but.
e: There's thousands of unsolved cases
Thousands of UK missing persons cases may be reinvestigated
Volunteer detectives could look again at all 13,000 cold cases on National Crime Agency’s missing persons unit
www.theguardian.com
And looks like few/no resources for them, so volunteers/charities have taken up the cause.
The McCanns having active police work done for so many years seems truly exceptional.
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The first four we do know, at least beyond reasonable doubt.
It's possible that there might have been something more going on behind the scenes with the killing of JFK, but the evidence points to Lee Harvey Oswald firing the gun.
It's possible that Hitler faked his own death, escaped to Argentina and hid completely successfully. It's possible that the Soviet Union lied about the evidence they had and nobody spoke out even after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Possible, but hardly likely.
It's possible that Elvis faked his own death, escaped to a top secret facility where he received medical treatment beyond what was known to exist in the 1970s and thus is still alive today (in his late 80s) despite the severe health problems he had back then. At least Elvis hiding is more plausible than Hitler hiding.
It's not possible that they faked the moon landing. I spent a lot of time on this one and I'm confident in saying that not only is there no sound evidence of it being faked, it's impossible for it to have been faked. Unless you bring in alien technology. Or gods. Which amounts to the same thing in practice.
We don't know about Madeleine McCann, although we might know at some point in the future. If we do, it will probably be due to finding her body.
Soldato
She's dead, she doesn't know anything.I feel most sorry for Madeleine who knows what she had to endure
She probably is yeh and i feel sorry for what she had to endure before her death (I did use past tense so i think this was obvious).
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The suspect denies any involvement with Maddie, so I wonder where they have got this information from?
Something seems very suspect about this case, like there is a background narrative we're not being told.
It's not out of this world that it's linked to an organised crime ring. We know from the Belgium situation some years ago that these rings do exist and are covered up by people in power.
I've always been a bit suspicious with how the case as been presented in the media. Details held back, especially about the McCanns. Nothing sinister, which made me think why not say it.
Something seems very suspect about this case, like there is a background narrative we're not being told.
It's not out of this world that it's linked to an organised crime ring. We know from the Belgium situation some years ago that these rings do exist and are covered up by people in power.
I've always been a bit suspicious with how the case as been presented in the media. Details held back, especially about the McCanns. Nothing sinister, which made me think why not say it.
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I had assumed tbh that he had given them some info hence why they are searching where they are. Maybe not the case.
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I think I read that a witness stated that the suspect confessed what he did to Maddie when having a drink with them. I think they have mobile phone data that show he was around the area too, although I'm not 100 on that. The German police also stated they're sure he commited the murder.
Man of Honour
The accomodation only looked in on the kids every hour where the 9 adults (THAT IS NINE ADULTS) decided to look in on all the children every 30 minuttes.
EXACTLY and still annoys me nobody gives a toss about the other 7 adults who were in on it.
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Organised crime rings tend to involve adult prostitution and/or drugs. It's incredibly rare for them to involve child sexual abuse.
The global child abuse ring that was taken down by the Belgian police involved 90 suspects and 110 victims across 44 countries.
However, this was not an organised crime ring. It was a bunch of people in different countries sharing a server with sex abuse and paedophilic content, including acts of abuse that a few of them had committed. I've seen no evidence that it was 'covered up by people in power.'
The earlier Dutroux case involved one principal offender (Marc Dutroux), his wife, and three other people (one of whom was murdered by Dutroux). The police investigation was incompetent, but an independent investigation found no evidence that Dutroux had support from accomplices in high places.
At his trial, Dutroux played the victim card, claiming he was merely the disposable pawn of a powerful paedophile network. This was proven to be laughably false.
A grand total of four people were charged, prosecuted and convicted, including Dutroux and his wife. Dutroux is the only one still in prison today.
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I heard early on in this case that this area of Portugal was a favourite place of people of that inclination.
You're probably right that most rings are about adult prostitution. Though over the years there have been a number of rings, or groups, that have been involved in the manufacture of child abuse material, mainly in eastern European countries.
Sadly a child is worth more than an adult woman to these sick people.
Society needs to figure out a tolerable way to smoke out those higher up the hierarchy.
You're probably right that most rings are about adult prostitution. Though over the years there have been a number of rings, or groups, that have been involved in the manufacture of child abuse material, mainly in eastern European countries.
Sadly a child is worth more than an adult woman to these sick people.
Society needs to figure out a tolerable way to smoke out those higher up the hierarchy.