Madeleine McCann: Blonde Child Seen In Morocco
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MAIL front page: “Could this be Maddie?”
Readers see a picture of a child being carried on a woman’s back - “The intriguing picture being probed by Interpol.”
Pages 10 and 11: “Could this really be Maddie?”
This is the picture of a girl “in the clutches of a group of Moroccans”. The picture was taken four weeks ago near Tangiers by Spaniard Clara Torres.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “MADDY IN MOROCCO?”
Readers see the same picture. The Full “astonishing story” is on pages 4 and 5.
Pages 4 and 5: “COULD IT BE?” Less the full story than another question.
“GERRY: I KNOW WE WILL BE CLEARED” – Gerry McCann says he and his wife “wanted to be eliminated from the enquiry as quickly as possible”. Some news.
THE SUN front page: “MOROCCO PHOTO SENSATION. IS THIS MADDIE?”
The picture is “sensational”. It has been described as “convincing”, but by whom is not said.
Pages 4 and 5: “GERRY & KATE: IT COULD BE HER – MADDIE PARENTS HOPE AT SIGHTING SENSATION.”
Clara Torres is talking on Spanish radio. She looks at the photo. Says she: “It sent shivers down my spine.”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “NOW A ‘PHOTO’ OF MADELEINE IN MOROCCO.”
‘Photo’ is placed in quotes lest readers mistake the picture for a ‘SNAP’ or a ‘SHOT’.
Spanish Government official Jose Herrero Arcas says: “The National Police received a photograph by email taken by a young Spanish couple who believe it shows Madeleine McCann. The quality of the photograph is not very clear and it was taken from around 200 metres away. However, the National Police are taking the claim seriously enough to have sent it on to their colleagues at Interpol. I cannot give any more information than that.”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE – AMAZING PHOTO IN MOROCCO.”
Pages 4 and 5: “MADDIE SEEN IN MOROCCO – Bombshell new photo is probed by Interpol.”
THE TIMES front page: “Police start investigation into ‘picture in Morocco of Madeleine McCann’.”
Page 5: “New photograph shows child like Madeleine on African woman’s back.”
A source close to the McCanns tells one and all: “The McCanns are not going to get their hopes up until the photograph has been sent for forensic examination.” And, dare it be said, a DNA test.
DAILY TELEGRAPH front page: “Is this Madeleine in Morocco?” The search for the missing child has taken a “dramatic turn”.
Page 9: “Gerry McCann is “confident” he and his wife will be cleared. A source tells us: “It is very unlikely that British police would question the McCanns on behalf of the Portuguese now.”
Robert Murat responds to claims by nanny Charlotte Pennington that on the night of Madeleine’s disappearance he was by the McCann family apartment: “I certainly was not there that night. At no point was I there.”
THE GUARDIAN & THE INDEPENDENT no Maddy news today.
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September 26th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
689 Momo - please refer to my post to you in 680 which answers one of your questions
696 Listening Birds
If it’s true that Father Pacheco was requested to give last rites for Madeleine (even the next day), he would know that the child was dead and anything that he did from that point on to assist the McCanns to continue the charade of a missing child would make him an accomplice after the fact, would it not?
Not that the media is to be believed in all things (we’re on Anorak, after all), but when the priest apparently ‘disappeared’ for several days, it was because he was upset at the idea the McCanns might be involved in the disappearance/death of the little girl, according to The Daily Star article linked earlier. Of course, the priest could have been hiding his true knowledge under a layer of deception by using that as a cover story and was only worried about covering his own hide.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
681 Harry Hind Sight
yes that make sense. Call up a priest within the hour when your child is missing to tell him lies?
September 26th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
696. Like I said, it would be hearsay. It wouldn’t stand up in court.
If other things are done - like an investigation into an allegation, say involving an abusive Priest, then they have to go to the police (although they mostly haven’t).
September 26th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Please, someone, reply! The girl is not Madeleine, 100%! Please look at 694!!!
September 26th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
If the priest was summoned to give the last rites to Madeleine, that wouldn’t come under the confessional so the priest would have coughed by now!
Mike Hondemburst you’re being very judgemental for someone who knows NOTHING. The same as the rest of us….. Silly.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
685 - 686: Two pro-McCann posters seem to be quite disturbed about the suggestion of Father Pacheco coming clean.
I will say it again, because I have already responded to this question in my second post, but apparently no one read it carefully.
I am calling for Father Pacheco to come forward and tell the world what he knows. Why did the McCanns desperately want to come to him on the 3rd of May when their daughter had just been reporting missing? Why not continue searching the entire resort, see if she’s in someone’s room. Why demand to see the priest that evening?? Father Pacheco knows why. He can tell the world why. He just needs to look into the camera and tell us what he knows. If the McCanns told him nothing - then he can say that - but if he does not tell the truth, it’s as bad as if he didn’t come forward at all. Father Pacheco will not be forgiven for going to his grave with the secret of Madeleine’s disappearance. No, I will say it for the last time here: he will live a tortured, turmoiled, turbulent life - and will die a very sad, self-hating man. That will be the legacy he leaves behind if he does not come forward and tell the truth of what has been revealed to him - and guide the McCanns to a full confession.
I must leave now…..but the world awaits Father Pachecos revealations. We need to hear from you now, Father.
Moderation: You do love to say everyone you disagree with is Christoph. No, you are incorrect once again my dear friend. I would appreciate a level of respect from you. As Catholics, and Christians, we all pray to the same God.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
689 momo
The priest has turned up again. Some local parishioners didn’t see him for a couple days and told the press he was missing so they made a story out of it. He was only gone for 4 days, if in fact he had ‘gone’ anywhere. Panic over.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
please look at my 694!!!
September 26th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
680 Jolie
thank you, but that is not what i meant.
Could anyone plz explain to me how priests don’t have to explain what they know? Isn’t that obstruction of justice?
September 26th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
686. Sorry if I was being too literal.
I never knew what anyone’s penance was. I did tend to know what their confessions were because I’d ask what they were going to say while I was trying to work out what I was going to say.
My priest usually tries to convince me I haven’t done anything wrong. Like I said I was lazy the last time and he said, ‘you’re not lazy’. It’s quite funny.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
687 But I can provide a gloss for HHS if that would prove useful:
Catholics are not required to summon a priest in the first few hours that a child goes missing.
By contrast, when a child dies, Catholics must summon a priest to carry out those Catholic rites which would speed the passing of the soul into Heaven.
The McCanns summoned a priest that night.
Catholics are drawing conclusions from this.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
re my 686 post.
Sounds as if we all trooped into comfessional together….. I meant we would be taken into the curch as a class and then go in one at a time. I can imagine it was very very boring for the priest.
We were however all scared of the Bishop when he was in the box.
Aaaah. memory lane!
September 26th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Sorry if I am not the first to post this discovery, but the girl on the photo is not M., but Bushra Binhisa, the 5 year old daughter of a local farmer. One of the portuguese journalists went to Morocco today and found the girl. I found this in 24horas Lima (not the well known portuguese newspaper, the different one)!
Is not it now obvious that all todays British info is a SPIN.C
September 26th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
599 Judge dread
“Why did it take a reporter to do their work free of charge?”
Possibly TMC have some really bright people and they contacted the media and said ‘there has been this sighting and we have a photo - any of you guys want to check it out, there will be a good story in it one way or another, not to mention your editor will be paying for a free trip to Morocco, expenses…’
So instead of depleting the M fund they got the media to do it for free!!
September 26th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
The mccanns hardly confessed to the priest. The whole catholic thing is a flag of convenience. ”Devout catholics” my arse. Where do i start…. lies, hypocrisy,vanity, negligence, ivf, gluttony, adultry…… feel free to add to the list….
September 26th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2296203136219895848&hl=en-GB
New Madeleine Video
September 26th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
684 Do you have an opinion on the case, by any chance?
September 26th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
677 a fan of St….
I just would like to know where this person is, does he even exists? How come he hasn’t been interviewed by the police? It can’t be because he’s a priest, can it? There are sightings of Madeleine all over the place, but the priest who ‘just gave the keys to the church to a couple on holliday’ is no where to be found?
September 26th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
685. I meant to say a confession, not the seal of confession.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
681 - Harry Hind Sight Says:
September 26th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
677 - How can you be sure that Father Pacheco knows anything - he can only know what the McCanns told him. Even if they did it (and we have no way of knowing) it does not following that they would have confessed.
I already addressed this same question in my first post responding to you. Please re-read it. The answer to your question is there.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Mods and Admin….. is St Francis, Christoph? I sense the ‘hell fire and damnation’ coming thru.
‘St Francis’… so you KNOW they confessed something do you, oh mighty one?
Karen it was a joke.
When we were kids we all went to confession together. Usually it five Hail Marys for kids stuff so if it looked as if someone had the whole Rosary as penance we wanted to know what they’d done.
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Mods and Admin
Nope not Christoph
September 26th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
678. The seal of confession wouldn’t hold up in court.
It isn’t recorded or written down, there would be no objective proof that the Priest was telling the truth and if the accused denied it, it would be his word against theirs.
It might encourage the police to keep pursuing that line of enquiry but further proof would be needed and I doubt a Priest would go to jail unless he had further proof of guilt - not just a confession.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
It would seem that you have embraced your faith so closely that you can no longer see what it truly is.
LOL - Thank you for that compliment! But I’ve just been accused by another poster of just the opposite.
I stand by my posts.
Father Pacheco knows exactly what I am speaking about. That is really all that matters. I am not in a position to give the forum a full blown education on Catholicism.
I am here now, to relay a message to the McCanns and Father Pacheco.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
673 Hi momo!
I beleive the preist is around and doing priestly things. The keys thing is on record. I don’t thing any of us can really dispute it.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
677 - How can you be sure that Father Pacheco knows anything - he can only know what the McCanns told him. Even if they did it (and we have no way of knowing) it does not following that they would have confessed.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
673 momo
In an earlier post (537), I provided a link to a September 21 article about the priest meeting with the authorities to be interviewed:
http://www.dailysnack.com/news_article.html?fSKU=7809
September 26th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
669 - what you fear and what you wish are two of the same things.
What is the right thing to do is something entirely different.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
668 Well he can’t guide and persuade them over the phone, cos they’re all bugged.
So he would have to go to Leicestershire if his calling insists that he try and persuade them to confess.
I wonder if the fighting fund is allowed to pay for the flights?
You said a bunch of stuff in yur last paragraph that to the uninitiated (me) would seem to be a bit dubious. I buy into the ‘Jesus protecting the kiddies’ thing and the ‘Catholic Church in turmoil thing’ but I’m undecided at best about the McCann’s confession setting the world free and protecting Maddie’s soul.
It would seem that you have embraced your faith so closely that you can no longer see what it truly is.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
667 - You are correct on the accessory part.
Yet, incorrect that Catholics think they are above the law. Moderation type Catholics might, but not the Catholics that I worship with..
I have explained my philosophy and my stance on Catholicism and Father Pachecos moral and ethical obligations very clearly. And no one is above the law when it comes to children.
But Father Pacheco is in a most unique position. He can choose a life of turmoil angst and misery for himself, or he can guide this couple into confession and a life of REDEMPTION.
Madeleine’s fate lies in the lap of Father Pacheco today. He needs to come forward and tell the world what he knows about Madeleine’s disappearance.
He needs to do this now.
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Could I ask a personal question, are you a priest?
If you are , were the vows you took to your God, or to any children.
What if Madeleine has not been murdered, and its the lesser crime of covering up and manslaughter.
If you are not a priest , could you find one who can back up your views.
I feel you are transposing responsibility and burden from someone who commited a crime onto someone who didn’t
September 26th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Carmen: it was very naughty of you to use post 666 like that!!