Madeleine

Madeleine should be celebrating her fourth birthday. Instead, she is missing and has been since May 3rd.

Inevitably, hopes are fading for Madeleine's safety. While the remote possibility remains that she wandered away from the apartment, the most likely scenario is that a pedophile snatched her after watching the family, and could easily have taken her out of the country, slipping over the open border to Spain. Another possibility is that Madeleine may be a victim of child traffickers. One suggestion was that she was snatched to be sold to a childless couple. As police admitted yesterday they were no longer confident she was still alive, the McCanns asked for a time of private prayer in the local church.

If the only choice is being with a pedophile or dead, then I hope Madeleine has breathed her last breath so she will not have to suffer any abuse.

My heart goes out the McCann family in this horrible time.

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