"Maddie" Found in Greece - 'Star' headline 19 Oct 2013

by Guest 18.10.13 22:48

Don't do this to me just before turning into the silken sheets ...
sad

by Google.Gaspar.Statements 18.10.13 22:50

Poor Madeleine, her name continues to be used and abused for money.

by Guest 18.10.13 22:51

That is totally despicable using the name Maddie and a picture of Madeleine. It is sick!!

by Rorschach's Journal 18.10.13 22:51

What a shameful headline.

by Guest 18.10.13 22:55

by stillsloppingout 18.10.13 22:59

sharonl wrote:

That is a new low . not just in this case but in journalism .

by **sharonl** 18.10.13 23:07

candyfloss wrote:That is totally despicable using the name Maddie and a picture of Madeleine. It is sick!!

It's more than sick

If there is any truth in that article (probably not, its in the Star), then we have yet another exploited child. Only, this time the child may have really been missing and suffered a great trauma, only to return to find that she is being used by a very irresponsible group of news paper editors in a sick attempt to manipulate public perception of another case. Not the sort of attention this vulnerable little girl needs right now, but hey who cares just as long as it suits the McCann media team.

by stillsloppingout 18.10.13 23:08

I honestly would not put it past our secret service etc , to have planted her , same age hair look etc . honestly nothing would surprize me any more.

It just goes to show the blitz has no sign of ending .

But less is more . that headline is going to disgust many many people .

by **sharonl** 18.10.13 23:29

The McCanns don't want their twins reading the internet or Amarals' book. My advice would be to keep them both in doors tomorrow, else they may have some explaining to do when the twins get excited over the headlines in the Star.

Don't go shopping or out for petrol tomorrow Kate, not with the kids anyway.

by tiredofthebs 18.10.13 23:32

I get the feeling that team McCann are panicking. This latest round of PR stinks of desperation. And it reminds me of the PR we were getting in October 2007 when they fled Portugal.

by Guest 18.10.13 23:34

The Ben Needham campaign is saying that Ben disappeared in Greece, there if anything he should have been linked to this story and not Madeleine, I agree.......

Ben Needham ‏@FindBenNeedham 1h
BRITISH MEDIA: little girl found Greece u r reporting has HUGE connex 2 BEN'S story! THATS connection shd b made! http://helpfindben.co.uk/history.html

by plebgate 18.10.13 23:37

Of course it should be linked to Ben.

by bristow 18.10.13 23:38

I feel there is something seriously not right with this latest story, I feel very uncomfortable about it, to the point it feels like a dreadful hoax.

Loud bright photographs of this little child in an almost sterile studio background, hands covered with some awful filth, hair that has obviously been dyed (you can see the plaits are dark brown compared to the blonde regrowth) almost like some sort of shoot for a magazine.

It's screaming 'this is what's happened to Maddie', like some awful set up.

I hasten to add if it is true, may the little child be returned to her family and apologies for being so sceptical but it just doesn't sit right with me in the least, something seems sinister.

by notlongnow 18.10.13 23:40

This feels wrong.
If it wasn't for the mm case this would not be in the papers.
Something stinks.

by **Tony Bennett** 18.10.13 23:42

tiredofthebs wrote:I get the feeling that team McCann are panicking. This latest round of PR stinks of desperation. And it reminds me of the PR we were getting in October 2007 when they fled Portugal.

What do we know about the source and provenance of this story?

by Guest 18.10.13 23:44

Hope for Maddie: A child 'snatched' from parents discovered alive in Greek gypsy site

MADELEINE McCann's parents have been given hope they may find their daughter alive after another four-year-girl who was 'snatched' from her family was found in Greece.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/437739/Hope-for-Maddie-A-child-snatched-from-parents-discovered-alive-in-Greek-gypsy-site

So sad, the photos of her plastered all over this article.

by Guest 18.10.13 23:47

Is this some other poor parents' Maddie? Mystery of 'Maria' deepens as Greek authorities reveal four-year-old blonde girl 'abducted by gypsies' can only speak obscure Roma language

Unidentified girl found living in a Roma gypsy camp in central Greece
Man, 39, and woman, 40, arrested and charged with abducting a minor

[snipped]

The case bears a disturbing similarity to theories about the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, who went missing on a family holiday in Portugal on May 3, 2007.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465942/Police-appeal-help-identifying-blonde-girl-4-living-gypsy-camp-Greece.html#ixzz2i7HnVIwn

by Guest 18.10.13 23:49

[snipped from Daily Mail]

Among many claims made over the years, convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett allegedly said he saw the Madeleine twice before she vanished and claimed she was stolen to order by a gypsy gang, but denied he was involved

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465942/Police-appeal-help-identifying-blonde-girl-4-living-gypsy-camp-Greece.html#ixzz2i7IL1fSc

by bristow 18.10.13 23:49

notlongnow wrote:This feels wrong.
If it wasn't for the mm case this would not be in the papers.
Something stinks.

It really does feel wrong, actually I feel sickened by it, something stinks to high heaven.

by littlepixie 18.10.13 23:52

And Gerry McCann was only reminding us the other day about all these children who have been "recovered" after years apart from their families.

So transparent its laughable.

by Guest 18.10.13 23:52

[snipped] From Mirror

The case bears similarities to theories about the disappearance of Madeleine who vanished aged three on a family holiday in Portugal on May 3, 2007.
It raises the possibility that Madeleine could still be alive six years after she disappeared.
Speaking to The Mirror, a spokesman for the McCanns said: “This gives Kate and Gerry great hope that Madeleine could be found alive.”
Dad Gerry said this week that statistics showed the younger a child is when abducted, the more likely they are to be found.
He said after Monday’s BBC Crimewatch: “There are cases over the last few years of children who have been found after they’ve been taken for a long time. I think that’s what the public needs to think about tonight.”
Scotland Yard said new evidence adds further weight to claims the three-year-old was snatched in a pre-planned abduction from her holiday apartment.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-kate-gerrys-great-2467765#ixzz2i7J3uo3x