A 4 year old girl living in a Roma Camp has been found not related to the camp and parents.
Ben Needham's family apparently had a line of enquiry years back about being linked back to Larissa,
Which is where the area this girl was found.
If there's so many children out there with a chance of maybe being Ben or other stolen, shouldn't we be checking this out?
It's a possibility and a plausible one at that.
Girl found with no DNA matching to parents
www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.home&id=1553
Lots of other children out there in those camps.No idea whether they're biologically related or not.
Is it not worth the enquiry? For the peace of mind?
It hasn't been investigated. It should be. Just to make SURE.
Especially as this little girl has been discovered in the exact same place as Ben was purpoted to have been.
AIBU?
to think this a major 'breakthrough' in the Ben Needham case?
AliaTheEvilLeaper · 18/10/2013 23:19
Jesus, all 
gratefully accepted. I try very hard not to be controversial on this site because I think it's very easy for people to misunderstand your meaning. And I do get your concerns about what I said but I was speaking purely personally for me, in that instance. I suspect we may be on different sides of the void! I would always urge people to report in cases of serious or stranger abuse. But I would think twice in a situation where I could control access to my, or other children. Because the system is harsh. And sometimes it does more damage than the offence. It is unforgiving. And I get the feeling I'm going to be annoying you again, which isn't my intention 
Sage, I think you need to look at each case on its merits. Sometimes it's the right decision, in the greater good, to report. Sometimes, the upside of a conviction, or minor punishment, isn't worth the upset to the child.
And OP, the thread has been derailed, well and truly. I apologise, that was never my intention.
Aunt 
To be honest, I wouldn't argue with you in the case of minor offences (although possibly for slightly different reasons). But anyway, yes, derailment
It's good to see the connections to Ben in your linked stories Alia, but on Sky News just now he wasn't mentioned in the story at all 
Sky have just read a statement from South Yorkshire police who will not be investigating the links with this case and Ben Needham but will continue to support the family.
That's awful, 
When there's a definite link, why the hell won't they investigate?
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Why are the links to Ben still not being investigated? I'm gutted for his family, I truly am.
Me too. I just don't understand why, when a little girl has been found in the same camp he was said to have been with, that they STILL won't pull their finger out and investigate it thoroughly. They need to get in and get searching officially.
I know somebody's now going to come along and say "it's not as easy as that" but it SHOULD be. 
I'm also really pissed off that some papers (yes, especially you The Sun) is STILL going on about Maddie today.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love for her to be found, but this story has BEN written all over it, and the front cover blatantly ignores that fact.
My guess is Ben is a 24 yo Man and no longer a child. I too feel so bad for his family.
That's just it, he will be in his twenties and a fully grown man. If he has been taken by this gypsy camp at some point though, which is a likely possibility given the discovery of the little girl and the fact somebody had said YEARS ago that he had been taken by them, then it's possible he's one of the adults there.
With no clue of who he really is, and the heartbroken family looking for him.
They need to look at the camp, seriously.
His mum (and family) deserve to know if he's there or not. I have boys. I can't imagine what she must be going through not knowing, it must be absolute torture.
She needs it investigating and the fact nobody is bothering to look is outrageous.
If (IF) they did take him, why the hell are they allowed to get away with it?
It's criminal.
Wonder why the Sun seem to be the only paper that refuses to pick up on the link as a main lead?
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Oh come on! The police won't be investigating this because they will have far more knowledge and facts than we have! Do you honestly believe they looked at it and said 'nah, let's not bother'!?
Why is it not getting the same amount of coverage as other people then with NO known link of anything happening, and adding a tenuous spin onto the headlines, but this one is shunted backwards and not given the same exposure?
Especially given the recent developments of an unidentified little girl found in the exact same area Ben was purpoted to have been "with the gypsies?"
Why would they have said that back in 1996 if it wasn't true? Isn't it worth an investigation just to be on the safe side?
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