>
A horror recalled:
Years back, we were vacationing across in Seville, Spain, when the news of the little Madeline McCann kidnapping came from nearby Portugal.
We were getting information from "Sky News" (NewsCorp's Euro version of FoxNEWS), and CNN, plus the local Spanish TV.
The story was so sad and terrifying. I won't go into details here, as it was detailed in everyone's news and following specials.
But the very WORST was hearing of the Portuguese Police's senseless persecution of the child's Mother.
Both parents were British Physicians, "on holiday" and had left Madeline asleep in their suite to join their party for outdoor supper. Mom sat where she could see Madeline's door, and went to physically go to check every 15 or 20 minutes.
The initial search showed no trace of the missing toddler, but did turn-up a reliable eye-witness who saw an unknown man carrying a little girl off.
Yet the Police continued to try to frame the innocent Mom for the disappearance.
What a horrible thought: One's baby is missing, gone; and the cops blame you! Of course, Mom was double distraught, and rightfully so.
We resolved then to never set foot in Portugal, and to never buy any product from there. The horrible way they treated that Mom was unprecedented and uncalled-for!
Little Madeline was never found, who knows ?
What a sad, sad story. . . . . .
leVieux
.
A horror recalled:
Years back, we were vacationing across in Seville, Spain, when the news of the little Madeline McCann kidnapping came from nearby Portugal.
We were getting information from "Sky News" (NewsCorp's Euro version of FoxNEWS), and CNN, plus the local Spanish TV.
The story was so sad and terrifying. I won't go into details here, as it was detailed in everyone's news and following specials.
But the very WORST was hearing of the Portuguese Police's senseless persecution of the child's Mother.
Both parents were British Physicians, "on holiday" and had left Madeline asleep in their suite to join their party for outdoor supper. Mom sat where she could see Madeline's door, and went to physically go to check every 15 or 20 minutes.
The initial search showed no trace of the missing toddler, but did turn-up a reliable eye-witness who saw an unknown man carrying a little girl off.
Yet the Police continued to try to frame the innocent Mom for the disappearance.
What a horrible thought: One's baby is missing, gone; and the cops blame you! Of course, Mom was double distraught, and rightfully so.
We resolved then to never set foot in Portugal, and to never buy any product from there. The horrible way they treated that Mom was unprecedented and uncalled-for!
Little Madeline was never found, who knows ?
What a sad, sad story. . . . . .
leVieux
.