OMG. Anybody just seen GMTV? 3 yr old girl abducted on holiday on the Algarve.

[tiredemma]

kate said reports just in, cant find anything on bbc.

bloody awful.

that is exactly what i thought Aitch. Trying to suggest a paedophile angle with no evidence. Really nasty.

I didn't realise it was a Mark Warner resort. I've always felt so safe in these resorts.

The wandering off theory is more plausible don't you think? Maddy's aunt was on the news this morning saying she was happy and well adjusted and would not leave her family. But if a 3 year old awoke in a strange place, she may well try to find her parents.

The not knowing what exactly happenned must be horiffic for her parents to cope with.

I truly hope she is found alive soon.

of course it is what we all fear but the kind of underhand suggestions 'she was blonde, pretty,' etc are unnecessary.

dh is convinced she wandered off and maybe into the sea !!! Oh God I do hope not.

She was the first thing I thought about when I woke up this morning. Poor little girl and her parents - they must just be out of their minds. Can't help thinking it extremely unlikely this will have a good outcome but I do hope I'm wrong.

MW resorts , it appears, are usually closed separate compounds but this one was built around and in a fishing village so anyone was free to wander as it was part of the town.

I'm praying she wondered out and has been taken in by some stupid local who hasn't returned her yet.

The resort says that they were not

Maybe one of the twins woke and cried, so Maddy thought she'd go find her parents. Who knows, its all speculation.

I'm inclined to think she wandered off too tbh. too many factors to be an opportunistic abduction. If she was abducted, then it must have been someone who knew her/the family. The father is a cardiologist, an agrieved parent perhaps? someone whose child died under his care?

I wonder if they were awke when she was found to be missing

I can't stop thinking about it too.
I have a dd not far off Madeleine's age. I just pray that by some miracle she is found safe and well.

f she wandered off I wouldn't imagine she will be found alive.

Don't think it is a typical MW resort - not enclosed or exclusive, just apartments and MW run clubs run within an established complex on the edge of a resort. The MW umbrella may have added a false sense of security and led to them letting their usual cguard down.

If she wandered off wouldn't she have been found by now, unless she decided to go for a swim in the sea, but most three year olds are a little nervous by the sea

It's truly every parent's worst nightmare isn't it ?? I can't stop thinking of how desperate they must feel and how incapacitated. Everything must feel like it's out of their hands - how awful.

that worries me, tbh.... if they had been having fun at the sea the day before, she may have decided to try and have some fun on her own....

if she wandered off and is found, alive or not, will the parents be held accountable in any way?

There have been discussions on here about leaving children, and the general consensus seems to always have been that while it's not illegal, if something happened to that child, the parents would be held to account.

I imagine that they will spend the rest of their lives holding themselves accountable. I can't think of a worse punishment than that

is there no CCTV in these places?

I agree ppb

I was wondering that jampots & assuming the police etc would be examining it....I hope

Surely they wouldn't be held accountable ?

I see what you mean though - if they'd left them home alone at home and something had happened social services would have been in there like a shot !

Let's hope she turns up safe and well anyway !

UtterMadness - I wondered about the 'aggrieved parent of a patient' angle too, but was afraid to voice it in case you all thought I had been watching too much CSI.

Regarding the parents being held accountable - I think they are beyond caring about things like that. They will blame themselves forever, their lives will never be the same.