if they werent as well off and didnt have as much money, they would be getting the blame for neglect, but oh no, just because theyre doctors and can afford the publicity, everyone must think theyre so much better than that.

they deserve to be suspects
i think madeleine needs some new parents!
i cant bare them any longer, they were asking for it!

sometimes truth is stranger than fiction……………….

I hope before this is all over both are arrested, charged, convicted, spend time in prison, and have their medical licenses revoked.

“Chief Madeleine detective charged over ‘beating’ of suspect in another missing girl case

Is he still hunting Madeleine? Goncalo Amaral has not been suspended but it was unclear whether he was still on the case

Cipriano was convicted of murder and jailed, along with her brother Joao, even though Joana’s body was never found.

…Goncalo Amaral, co-ordinator of the Policia Judiciara in Portimao, Algarve, is one of five men accused of “scenes of aggression” against Leonor Cipriano, whose nine-year-old daughter, Joana, disappeared in September 2004.

The little girl’s body has never been found but Cipriano and her brother, Joao, were charged and convicted of her murder.

She went missing from her home in Figueira, not far from where four-year-old Madeleine was abducted in Praia da Luz 38 days ago.

The alleged attack on Cipriano occurred when she was questioned over Joana’s apparent abduction. It is claimed the suspect was left with bruises all over her face and body, according to local newspaper Jornal de Noticias….”

Is he still hunting Madeleine? Goncalo Amaral has not been suspended but it was unclear whether he was still on the case

Cipriano was convicted of murder and jailed, along with her brother Joao, even though Joana’s body was never found.

A photograph of Cipriano’s face covered in bruises following her police interview has been published in Portuguese newspapers.

Now Mr Amaral has himself become an “arguido” - Portuguese for suspect.

Embarrassingly, police still do not have any arguidos in their Madeleine hunt apart from Robert Murat, who looks increasingly likely to be cleared of any involvement.

The bizarre development caps a miserable week for the Portuguese force following sustained criticism of their bungling efforts to find Gerry and Kate McCann’s little girl.

Joana vanished in September 2004 from her home in Figueira, seven miles from Praia da Luz where Madeleine was abducted 38 days ago.

The alleged attack on Joana’s mother occurred when she was questioned without a lawyer over her daughter’s apparent abduction.

It is claimed she was left with bruises all over her face and body, according to the newspaper Jornal de Noticias.

She lodged a formal complaint about her treatment which was followed up by the Ministerio Publico - or District Attorney’s department.

Now the department has charged three officers with torture, a fourth with omission of evidence and a fifth with falsification of documents.

It is not known which charge applies to Mr Amaral because a spokesman would not specify which officers had been charged with which offence.

Police sources said Mr Amaral was “very angry” about the allegasuspendedtions and was considering taking action against the Ministerio Publico.

“He is very professional and has had a lot of success in solving cases,” the source said. “He is very upset because reporters never speak of these successes.”

Mr Amaral, who is in his late 40s, was charged in the Algarve, while the other four were charged in Lisbon.

He is thought not to have been from work and it was unclear last night whether he was still working on the Madeleine case.

A mystery caller who claimed to know Madeleine’s whereabouts was yesterday exposed as a conman who tormented her parents simply to steal reward money.

Spanish police took a call from a man using an Argentinian mobile phone last week.

British officials considered his claims credible enough for the McCanns’ flight from Berlin to Amsterdam to be delayed for three hours amid frantic efforts to re-establish contact with the man.

But now police have traced the call to a sick “professional thief” in the Argentine city of Cordoba.

He had been trying to claim £500,000 from Madeleine’s Fund - the money donated by wellwishers to help her parents continue their worldwide search.

The McCanns have vowed to stay in Portugal until “at least the end of the summer” if Madeleine is not found. They were house-hunting yesterday, planning to move out of their temporary accommodation.

I think this case has opened a can of worms. Did you know only five months ago a little 3yr old girl called Carolina Santos of similar appearance to Madeleine, was led away by a man thought to be Moroccan just half an hour from Praia da Luz. Luckily Carolina’s mother came out to check on her when she saw her daughter being led away by this man, she said she shouted out her daughters name and Carolina stopped and turned towards her and then the man disappeared around the corner.
Apparently Mr and Mrs Santos reported the incident to police, but were told they could not make a formal complaint as no crime had been committed! The Portuguese police are now investigating the attempted abduction of Carolina. In my opinion Madeleine’s case has brought this about because of all the media attention.

The Portuguese police have also opened 31 new cases of children that had been abducted last year, involving 19 girls and 12 boys.

Also in the Canary Islands seven-year-old Yeremi disappeared. He was the second child that has gone missing in mysterious circumstances. The police investigators now believe Yeremi Vargas was kidnapped from his front garden by a sex offender, and are investigating the alibis of the “100 sex offenders” who live on the island. The report says that 28 of them are British residents who are on the police register for crimes of this type committed in the UK.

Abuse was reportedly going on at Lisbon orphanage for 20 years

Giles Tremlett in Lisbon
Wednesday November 27, 2002
The Guardian

A scandal over a paedophile ring run from a state orphanage gripped Portugal yesterday as it threatened to engulf diplomats, media personalities and senior politicians.

Photographs of unnamed senior government officials with young boys from Lisbon’s Casa Pia orphanage were among the evidence reportedly available to police after they arrested a former orphanage employee called Carlos Silvino.

A number of former residents, and the mother of one boy who is still there, have denounced sexual attacks on children at what is known as Lisbon’s most famous orphanage.

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Mr Silvino, it was claimed, abused children himself and procured boys for a powerful group of clients.

He has publicly denied the allegations and was expected to repeat that denial at a closed-door bail hearing in Lisbon yesterday.

What has most shocked the Portuguese have been the revelations that systematic sexual abuse of children at the home had allegedly been going on for more than 20 years and had been known to police and other authorities for most of that time.

A former president, General Ramalho Eanes, was allegedly among those who knew about abuse at the home but failed to stop it.

The identity of the mysterious group of powerful paedophiles remained a secret yesterday, with only one person prepared to admit she knew at least some of the names.

Former secretary of state for families, Teresa Costa Macedo, said she had sent a dossier containing photographs and testimonies from children to the police 20 years ago but they had done nothing about it, while she was subjected to a campaign of threats.

“He [Silvino] was just one element in a huge paedophile network that involved important people in our country,” Mrs Costa Macedo explained in a newspaper interview. “It wasn’t just him. He was a procurer of children for well-known people who range from diplomats and politicians to people linked to the media.”

The material sent to the police, which yesterday appeared to have been lost, was damning proof of the activities of the paedophile ring, Mrs Costa Macedo said.

“There are photographs, an account of the methods used to spirit children out of the orphanage and testimonies of a number of children,” she explained.

Mrs Costa Macedo said that many of the photographs were found at the house of a Portuguese diplomat in the town of Estoril, 20 miles from Lisbon. Four children who had gone missing from the orphanage were discovered at the house, where they had spent several days allegedly under lock and key.

President Eanes was introduced to five boys who told him of the abuse occurring at the orphanage in 1980 but failed to act on it, according to Mrs Costa Macedo.

There was no suggestion that General Eanes, a popular and respected figure who did not comment on the allegations yesterday, was involved in the paedophile ring.

Portuguese police insisted yesterday they had no record of the documents sent to them by Mrs Costa Macedo.

She said she had been the target of a campaign of intimidation to make her stop investigating the case.

“I received anonymous threats, by phone and post. They said they would kill me, flay me and a lot of other things,” she said.

That campaign had started again yesterday, she said, with threatening phone calls made to her home.

Portugal has increasingly been under the scrutiny of anti-paedophile groups who have denounced its lax laws and uninterested courts for creating a paedophiles’ paradise in Europe.

Belgian and Dutch paedophile groups are reported to have operated in Portugal, with foreigners travelling to the island of Madeira to seek out young children.

Investigators from the Swiss-based Innocence in Danger group, which claims children regularly disappear from the poorer streets of Portuguese towns and cities, say they too have been harassed and threatened.

Mr Silvino claimed his accusers were making up their allegations. “It is all lies,” he said.

The orphanage’s director and deputy director were sacked on Monday as the government pledged to clear up the case as soon as possible.

Suspect description

* Forename: Joshua
* Surname: KARNEY
* Street Name: Mark MOFFITT, Devon DANIELS, Aiden or Aaron WIELY, Kieran Arran O’SHEA, James O’SHAUN
* Sex: Male
* Age Range: 25 - 30
* Height: 170 - 175 cm (approx 5′ 8″)
* Build: Slim

* Hair Colour: Brown
* Ethnic appearance: White European
* Distinguishing marks: Strong Dublin accent, pierced left eyebrow, pierced left ear, large birthmark on the centre of his back.

Additional Info: Has hazel coloured eyes

Just check crimestoppers it could be any one of them! Well I mean a face shaped like an egg!!!

Perhaps by attacking the Portuguese police force, attention was diverted away from those staying at the vacation villas?

Due to the total absence of physical evidence of any sort eye-witness sightings, the only confirmation that the child was in the apartment that evening are the parents–who left her unattended for an extended period of time.

Vanished; yes. Snatched; why? Only fellow tourists at the vacation villa should have known that the parents were doctors (and UK doctors are not usually awash in cash) and, expounding upon that further, fellow tourists might also have been aware that the parents customarily left the children unsupervised as they ate their evening meals.

The parent’s friend, who provided the only eye-witness report of anything which might have been untoward (a male carrying a supposedly blanket-wrapped Maddy, but with her pyjamas visible), didn’t even express her viewing to the parents that evening. Again, would that friend be familiar enough with the family to know the pyjamas which the children had and which set of night clothes they wore on each particular night?

Honestly, I can not see what jetting around to European capitals can do to help recover the child. If she was indeed snatched, then whoever did it acted rashly and on the spur of the moment (and carrying a blanket to wrap the child in speaks of preplanning–there is no report of a missing blanket from the vacation apartment), and rashly means mistakes are made, or else it was carefully preplanned and hidey holes and onward transportation was already in place (and why go to all that trouble for a vacationing child, when an outsider wouldn’t know of the length of stay, the evening plans, etc.).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6698423,00.html
Madeleine officer on attack charges

Press Association
Sunday June 10, 2007 2:43 PM

A senior Portuguese police officer working on the Madeleine McCann case has been charged over an attack on the mother of another missing girl.

Goncalo Amaral, co-ordinator of the Policia Judiciara in Portimao, Algarve, is one of five men accused of “scenes of aggression” against Leonor Cipriano, whose nine-year-old daughter, Joana, disappeared in September 2004.

The little girl’s body has never been found but Cipriano and her brother, Joao, were charged and convicted of her murder.

She went missing from her home in Figueira, not far from where four-year-old Madeleine was abducted in Praia da Luz 38 days ago.

The alleged attack on Cipriano occurred when she was questioned over Joana’s apparent abduction. It is claimed the suspect was left with bruises all over her face and body, according to local newspaper Jornal de Noticias.

The Ministerio Publico (MP), or District Attorney, charged three PJ officers with torture, a fourth with omission of evidence and a fifth with falsification of documents.

The MP did not reveal who had been charged with what offence.

Police sources said Mr Amaral was “very angry” about the allegations and was considering taking action against the MP.

“He is very professional and has has a lot of success in solving cases. He is very upset because reporters never speak of these successes,” the source said.

It is alleged that the beating took place as Cipriano was questioned without a lawyer, according to the Portuguese Expresso newspaper. She lodged a formal complaint about her treatment which was followed up by the MP.

© Copyright Press Association Ltd 2007, All Rights Reserved

What about the British soldiers dying in Iraq? Let’s provide bread and circuses for the masses!!

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1269394,00.html

Hopes Dashed Over Mystery Call
Updated: 15:09, Thursday June 07, 2007

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have suffered another setback in the hunt for their daughter after an anonymous phonecall raised hopes.

The mystery telephone call was from a man claiming to know the four-year-old’s whereabouts.

He provided so much detail that Kate and Gerry McCann delayed their campaign trip to Amsterdam.

But Madeleine’s father has since dismissed the news as “nothing of interest”.

The couple had been informed of the potential development while in Germany, where they were appealing to tourists who may have been in the Algarve around the time of the child’s disappearance.

A Spanish police source said: “This did not appear to be a crank call and the information was felt credible enough to warrant the couple being informed immediately.”

It is 35 days since Madeleine was abducted from her bed in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz.

The “credible” call was taken from a man who refused to reveal his identity or nationality and wanted to speak directly to the McCanns, according to a Spanish police source.

It was traced to an unregistered pay-as-you-go phone from an unidentified country but not thought to be Morocco, where a previous possible sighting of Madeleine was reported.

At around 3pm yesterday, the couple - who were about to go to Tempelhof airport in Berlin to fly on to the Netherlands - were advised that the caller might try to contact them, so they stayed on at the British embassy.

At 6pm, journalists travelling in the eight-seater private jet with the McCanns were told by the flight crew that there might be a change in destination.

They revealed they had been asked to draw up a new flight plan involving a possible change from Amsterdam to East Midlands Airport.

It was thought the McCanns might need to go back to the UK to talk to advisers about the call.

But all efforts to re-establish contact with the man failed and the couple decided to go on to Amsterdam.

A British police source said: “The importance of this line of inquiry is still being assessed and attempts to re-establish contact are continuing.”

While there seems to be no let up in the frenzy of publicity surrounding the abduction of one little British girl in the Algarve, two families in Gran Canaria continue to wait and hope out of the media spotlight.

Yéremi Vargas, 7, went missing in the south of that island in March; Sara Morales Hernández, 14, vanished in Las Palmas in July last year. The police are continuing their search of wells, reservoirs, caves and ravines, but so far without a hint of a result.
And while their families grieve and parents all over the island worry about their children’s safety, a troubling story has appeared in the local press in recent days to rekindle public concern: a well known child sex offender, wanted by the German police, is reported to have been spotted in Gran Canaria.
Ulrich Schulz, a corpulent, bearded, long-haired individual in possession of a seeming fortune and wanted for questioning in connection with almost a thousand allegations of child abuse, is on the run from his luxurious Portuguese mansion and has been for the past five years.
The 58-year-old goes by his artistic names of Oliver Shanti and Oliver Serano and has recorded over a dozen New Age albums with typically esoteric titles like Seven Times Seven, Circles of Life and Man, Earth, Heaven, some of them with no lesser ensemble than the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Schulz is the leader of what is described as a religious sect founded by him in Bavaria in 1980. Within a few years, however, he and his numerous followers had moved south to Portugal where they settled near Vila Nova de Cerveira, in the north of the country. Schulz purchased a large estate, Casal San José, with mansion and several houses, even a stableful of horses. His followers, who include whole families of various nationalities, dedicate their time to praying, meditation and growing vegetables and medicinal plants. Schulz is said to have made free with their children.
The sect is still at Casal San José and holding the fort, though claiming Schulz sold them the property before he left five years ago.
Up until his flight he had cultivated not only his extensive grounds but also his persona as regards the local townsfolk. Far from believing him to be a rampant paedophile, the local authorities honoured him as a generous philanthropist.
He financed the town’s fiestas; he paid for food and medical care, even operations and wheelchairs, for the poor; he purchased five ambulances for the volunteer fire forces in the area and he even donated a statue for the town square.
For all this and more he was awarded a medal by the town hall and given the official honorary title of “Favoured Son” of Vila Nova de Cerveira.
But in August 2002 a German couple alerted the police to his activities when they reported him for the sexual abuse of their son. After that the flood gates opened and the gravity of the case became apparent. Though seemingly not to the Portuguese police who have been criticized by their Spanish counterparts for their lack of cooperation in assisting in the search for Schulz. Indeed, it has been alleged the Portuguese police told the Spanish they were not even aware that an international warrant for Schulz’s arrest had been issued.
After leaving Vila Nova de Cerveira he is known to have crossed into Spain, to Tuy and Pontevedra. Public response to Crimewatch-type television programmes would appear to indicate that he has also been in Galicia and Murcia.
More recently, after a showing of Los Más Buscados a caller reported having seen Schulz in the Mesa y Lopez area of Las Palmas and other reports have pinpointed him to Maspalomas in the south and Escaleritas, also in Las Palmas, this last area is where the family of Sara Morales Hernandez lives.
An e-fit picture issued by the German police and circulated to police throughout Spain shows Schulz with a trimmed beard and shorter hair. They describe him as a “dangerous paedophile”. They are hoping his poor health may give them a lead. Schulz is known to take Seroxat and Lithium, two prescription drugs which are anti-depressants. Spanish chemist shops have been alerted and asked to report anyone fitting Schulz’s description trying to purchase such medication.

Sorry, Megan my dear, but this is not about a missing child or a purportedly guilt-ridden family. It is seemingly about money, pure and simple.

Every day, another £50,000 gets socked away in that curiously worded “fund account current”. Mark my words (especially because that money is tax-free), these are two practitioners who are highly unlikely to return to the long hours and stress of practising medicine at any time in the near future.

Does the father have aspirations for a future in politics, as this certainly comes across as an exercise in wildly successful fundraising and useless, empty rhetoric?

A major disconnect from reality from the get-go. A four-year child and two-year-old twins left unattended in an apartment with familiar resort attractions just outside the easily opened door. A seemingly well-connected extended family which eagerly leaped into the fund-raising and meet-the-politicians fray. The meet-and-greets and travels to exotic climes and destinations (the child was hardly likely to be found at a Papal audience in Rome or in the vicinity of Fatima’s shrine–and certainly won’t be found in Berlin, Brisbane or Bali).

http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com/

The balance on 06/06/07, the fund account current stands at £673,366.97.

Title, Source, Date

No answers as McCanns campaign marches on. Telegraph, 06/06/2007