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Portuguese police say Madeleine may be dead +
Aug 11, 2007

I know and am aware that a lot of people, even throughout Care2, harbour bad thoughts about the case of missing toddler Madeleine McCann. While I respect the fact that everyone is entitled to an opinion, I am appalled at some (only a very few) of the messages I have received because of my supporting of this situation.

The consequences that led up to this alleged abduction have already happened. We cannot change that they occurred, they just did. But there is no point in spending time and energy while filling oneself with negativity in apportioning blame on the parents etc., the fact remains , A CHILD IS STILL MISSING AND IN DANGER!!! And THAT should be the case in question. We are all human and all prone to mistakes, sometimes with devastating conclusions, but should it not matter more that we ALL lend a hand when and where we can to bring a fruitful conclusion to this case and the many thousands of others where children or people are missing or in distress? I think so. But I'm not important, what IS important is the fact that a child is missing and according to this report below, may well already be dead.

Imagine if this is the case while the odd few prefer to heap blame and more misery at the door of the parents. What if it were your child? It matters little that you NOW say it wouldn't happen because, because, because. A lesson has been learnt here and everything in hindsight is always different. It is pointless to continue to condemn the parents, if this report has nay truth, they will be devastated AND will feel enough blame and guilt by themselves. They won't need anyone else heaping yet more and making pariahs out of them publicly.

We are all supposed to belong to the human race. Where comes the catalytic word? HUMAN as in HUMANITY. Do you know what humanity means? I'm disappointed in the handful of people that have written to me with abuse and no doubt, after this, there will be more. Personally I don't know how you can live with yourselves. But do ask yourselves, what if it HAD been YOUR child?

My daughter went missing at five years old for SIX HOURS. Let me tell you, that was the worst six hours of my entire life! Both my wife blamed ourselves. We blamed our 11 year old son and his friend, with whom our daughter was on a fairground ride with, not 50 yards from where my wife I stood chatting with an RAF servieceman. (We were attending an airshow). Fortunately for us, a high ranking airman saw our daughter wandering away from the main arena, picked her up in his jeep, took her to an area already set aside for lost children. They fed her crisps and Coke and other goodies and then she told them who she was and it was announced over the tannoy system.

Maybe our case was minute compared to Maddie's and every other misper case, but it just showed how easy it is.

Furthermore, personally, I think some people believe this is the only case of it's kind I have been involved with. Not so. Just because I'm not 'seen' as such, doesn't mean I been idle, I have worked hand in hand with others in distribution etc., but then I don't believe I have to justify my part.

For those of who with varying faiths will be always doing their part, but using God in such a case as this as I was told, "God has done this. It's His punishment!" That is appalling and most of you I know, will agree with me.

So please, remove those thoughts from your minds if you're ready to blast me for my actions and attempts to help, not only Madeleine but many many others I have also tried to highlight. You are human beings, you should have humanity and caring. Why are there so many social problems on this planet? Because people forget about humanity and their duty to one another.

And as I belong to many social networks, I along with many others, have tried to keep Maddie and others in the public consciousness. "THE MORE WHO SEE, THE MORE WHO SEE" basically meaning that the more WE see the more WE can prevent. Don't let me down. Don't let those in peril down and most importantly, please, don't let yourselves down.

This may be the last thing I do at Care2. As some of you will know, I've suffered my own personal traumas of late and some of the messages I've received concerning one or two things I tried to do have been personally abusive. I joined Care to help make a difference even creating a successful group "Make A Difference-Smile", but I have been disappointed recently. Most of you who have written to me have been honest. Sometimes brutally but thats OK. The ones who have been abusive are the ones who are sadly destroying everything I have ever tried to achieve in life and that is sad.

As I said, only a few, very few have been abusive. The majority of my friends are wonderful people and I am so pleased to have to know them. But I think you all know who you are.
Thanks for reading and blessings to one and all.
muito amor

Get well soon Agnes and Dreama. much love.
Keep smiling Laurie. I love you all...
Ron (or as some may know me too on MySpace etc., tcmoon) XXX

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Just had this over the wire, you may already have seen it:

Portuguese police investigating the disappearance of four-year-old Madeleine McCann acknowledged on Saturday that she might be dead.


Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa, one of the detectives leading the inquiry, told the BBC that recent evidence had prompted officers to pursue more intensely the theory she might have been killed.

Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, disappeared on May 3 during a holiday with her family in the resort of Praia da Luz, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal.

"In the past few days there have been some developments and clues that have been found that could point to the possible death of this child," Sousa told the BBC in an interview.

"All lines had been open but this line is now checking with a little bit of intensity," he said, speaking in English.

The clues to which he was referring were traces of blood found inside the apartment where Madeleine was sleeping, at the Mark Warner Ocean holiday resort, the BBC said on its Web site.

"We are waiting for lab results that have been collected," he added.

The traces of blood were being analysed in Britain to find out whether they matched Madeleine's.

Sousa refused to confirm or deny reports that police sniffer dogs had detected odours of a dead body in the apartment.

It was the first public acknowledgment by the police that Madeleine might have died, rather than been abducted.

He said her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, were not considered suspects, following media speculation that they were under suspicion. Neither were friends who had been with them on the night Madeleine disappeared, he said.

The family marked the 100th day since her disappearance with a special church service on Saturday in Praia da Luz.

Despite the publicity, so far only one suspect has emerged, Briton Robert Murat, while sightings and reported breakthroughs have come to nothing or proved to be hoaxes.

The McCanns launched "Don't You Forget about Me", a channel on the video-sharing Web site YouTube to help trace missing children, to mark 100 days without their daughter.

Lets hope this isn't true and keeping praying...

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Posted: Saturday August 11, 2007, 11:20 am
Tags: care2 ron agnes humanity myspace dreama maddie Laurie tcmoon Madeleine mccann misper [add/edit tags]

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Past Member (0) 		Saturday August 11, 2007, 5:59 pm
Thanks Ron ~
Lovely Share !!
Always praying for little Angel Madeleine.
HUGS
Mantha.

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