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

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

bloody awful.

seems it was only temperary so they could bring in sniffer dogs.

I could really weep for them

All I can think is that if the little girl did get out herself, surely someone would have seen her toddling about on her own and thought something wasnt right.

I don't know , possibly at that time of night is probably fairly usual to have lo's still up . I really hope she has wandered off and just shut herself in somewhere nearby. At that age our dd would have been beside herself

i just feel desperate for this poor family and can only pray that their little girl is returned to them safe and well. My DD1 and her friend decided to "run away" when i was pregnant with dd2, DD1 was 14 at the time, she and her friend bunked off school and walked ten miles to her grans caravan and hid (bloody kids). Words cannot describe the desperation i felt at the time, even though i knew she was supposedly with a friend. When people say they are "out of their minds" with worry its true, i was almost litereally climbing the walls and just felt totally helpless and panic stricken. That girls mother must be insane with it all by now - please please let her be safe, im in tears just thinking about it, that little girl must be so frightened, i cannot bear it. This sounds trite and patronising but it is simply how i feel, my thoughts and prayers go out to the whole family, and i wish them strength.

Maybe she got lost and was up all night trying to find mummy and daddy and has fallen asleep somewhere, exhausted. I hope that's all that's happened.
I'm praying for the family and I'm not even religious.

My prayers for the family.

I am praying for them too.

i just heard on the radio that there were signs of forced entry to the room as the shutters on the window were smashed

Praying that they find her safe and well

That appears not to be the case lucyellensmum. What seems to have happened is when the police arrived, they slightly opened shutters & window and possibly a passerby has reported this - that is what I gather from news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2511841.ece his article anyway

Sorry this

TBH I don't believe any reports atm.

Even the BBC. It always takes a few hours for facts to be checked etc.

Agree Squirrel. It seems that the Police are saying very little, so much of what the press is saying is pure speculation on their behalf.
Hopefully thaere will be a press conference soon.

One of my colleagues is writing this story (that was his copy on the Indy link). I'll let you all know asap if I find anything more out.

Most of the info is coming from talking to people (hotel manager, family, other guests etc), not just being made up by the reporters.

Yes, but the eye witnesses are speculating as well.

And people who are interviewed mostly want to be helpful/ knowledgable, so sometimes over-state what they know.

the bbc are only allowed to report from sources that have been double-checked, so the bbc is most likely to be the most accurate source of information. the police appear to be unwilling to comment at this stage.

I feel sor sorry for the parents, God alone knows how they must be feeling.

I still get a sick feeling when I remember my DD2 disappearing from my side at a shopping centre for 20 minutes, which pales into nothing next to this

If she?d wandered off she would have been found by now. If they?re still using dogs I would imagine they?re most likely looking for a body.

If she had been abducted for any other reason than a sinister one, who ever had abducted her would be long gone by now and almost certainly not still in the resort or surrounding village. Anyone who is calculated enough to carry out an abduction like this is intelligent enough to leave the area as soon as possible. But I very much doubt she?s still alive if she?s been taken.

This has made me teary all day. My own DD is this age. It just doesn't bear thinking about. I hope she is ok. I hope she is not to scared and I hope her mom is holding it together. I don't think I could.

foghorn, i heard this on radio two from a relative but lets pray that things have been mis interpreted because this news shattered my hopes that it was less sinister. Of course, the media always misprepresents things in an effort to be first with the news i know that. But what is important is this beautiful little girl and we must all pray that she will be safe. We can do that can't we?

uttermadness, i can only pray that you are wrong, this is the worse fear and we must not allow it to be in our thoughts at this stage.

I feel terribly sorry for the family, but leaving children of that age unattended in a hotel room is not acceptable, imo. They must feel terrible, poor things.

I agree I can't believe people do this. So careless. They don't deserve this though