To wonder why the disappearance of Nora Quoirin....

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Is not getting far more media coverage?

It’s devastating, that poor girl and those poor parents. All of them going through hell. I hope there might be some positive resolution to this and she’s found alive. But time is ticking.

I hope they can keep everyone looking for a few more days, it would be awful to know time had been lost at the beginning then the search was stopped...

It seems that it was hard to convince the local authorities that her special needs make her quite so vulnerable, and different from other teens, and quite how disabled she is. I hope it just appears this way from the outside looking in, as that

Just read the news on this shocking case again and it's saying they have scaled back search efforts already all they have done is search the jungle and call in a shaman priest who says she's been adopted by a genie!!! Are these people insane!

1. There were strange fingerprints on the window as well as Nora's
2. The sniffer dogs lost her scent right outside the window indicating she was put into a car and driven away
3. The only people that knew she was there besides her family are the resort worker's but none of them have been questioned and they haven't even searched the village and homes around the resort yet!

Hopefully now the British police have arrived her poor parents will get some real help and answers and she is found safe and well but it seems so far the local police and villagers are covering this up and hiding what has happened

I was wondering about local perceptions of disability. I'm sure the family have communicated that effectively and they've had consular support from early on.

What's the timeline? They arrived one evening and she was gone by the next morning?

It's different to MM where it has later emerged there was a criminal element and the apartment was in a fairly vulnerable position.

My youngest (now adult) has SN. After MM we started holidaying in Lanzarote because it's an island and no borders can be crossed quickly. I know that makes no sense as they could be taken from their own home but i just felt safer.

Mine wandered away on the beach once, he had joined another family and was lying on their sunbed having a great time while I'm desperately trying to communicate with the Spanish lifeguard to get the police. Only gone 5 mins but i was terrified.

I think the difference posters are noticing is that in the UK the police want the headlines and are very good at understanding what the press need in order to keep providing them. So there is a new “line” every day - a new picture, another interviewee (“we’re feeling desperate, says missing Jane’s aunt”), a reconstruction. The police understand papers can’t put “search enters its 9th day” on the front page. When a child goes missing abroad often the police do not speak to the press at all, or confirm anything, which makes it harder.

They arrived on the 4th and she was discovered missing the following morning through an open window with fingerprints on it that were not hers seems like an early clue there was a criminal element to her disappearance right there

Also further reports indicated her shoes were still in the apartment so she left barefoot but no footprints were foumd leading into the jungle or away from the resort

An abductin would mean that someone broke into a villa in a hotel complex on the edge of a jungle, a villa where the family had just arrived in the country late that night when it was already dark, the abductor did not break any door or window entering- although they were all shut and latched- wandered around upstairs where 5 people were sleeping, went into a room where 3 teenagers were sleeping and abducted a 15 year old without wakng anyone up, got her downstairs and out of the house in her nightclothes and barefeet leaving no trail or track.
It seems much more likely to me that she woke up early, was disorientated, went down to the kitchen, opened the large step-through window and went outside to look at the pool, became more disorientated and quickly got lost.
Her poor parents must be beside themselves. They look terrible - exhausted.

Lulu i agree.

But the family say it's unthinkable she would go anywhere independently and they know her best.

It looks like they've found a body now sadly, it's on the DM

So awful. I hope she did just wonder off and wasn't harmed. Poor lass.

It would seem that a body has now been found

Body found

going to read news now.

That poor poor family.

Oh no how desperately sad - heartbreaking

This is heartbreaking. She was found in an inaccessible place so she must have been taken? So so sad.

I don't often get emotional about news stories but this has been particularly heart wrenching. She was so vulnerable. Poor girl and her poor family.

This is so heartbreaking

Just saw the news this is so awful. It's heartbreaking. The family said Nora didn't go anywhere on her own or have the physical ability to. They knew their daughter and knew someone must have taken her, Only someone who knew the area could navigate easily to the mountains. My heart goes out to Nora's family.

Just seen it on the news. Every parents worst nightmare

It so sad - the poor poor parents

Oh this is so sad. Having taught children with learning difficulties I feel really emotional about this, almost as if I knew her. I feel so sad for the family, I hope they get some sort of answers.

She may have become disorientated in a strange place and walked to the place and simply passed away there. It seems difficult to think of an abduction as lulu has mentioned.

Just woke and came to see if there was any news, I’m very sad to see this update.