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Three year-old feared abducted in Portugal
By staff and agencies
12:01AM BST 04 May 2007
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A three-year-old British girl has gone missing while on a family holiday in Portugal, the Foreign Office said today.
Portuguese police are investigating the disappearance from a holiday complex in Praya da Luz in the western Algarve.
A Foreign Office spokesman said that he understood the girl's parents had gone to have dinner once their children were asleep last night, but returned to check on them only to find the girl had gone missing.
"They reported it straight away," he said, adding that consular assistance was being offered.
originally posted by: sputniksteve
a reply to: ipsedixit
Do you know if MI5 is equivalent to or similar to F.B.I. in the States? The F.B.I. are also involved or on the periphery on the child abduction cases in the States in the 80's and 90's. In any case I don't think that these rings or events would be possible without some kind of cover or help purposeful negligence from the authorities.
a reply to: Thefarmer
While I "wundt" necessarily do this, I don't think that it is that negligent to leave your 2 children sleeping in your room at a resort while you go and eat dinner, obviously assuming you are locking the doors when you leave. Depending on the resort, not a whole lot can happen to a 3 year old while they are sleeping. I have a 2 1/2 year old and out of the last 547 some nights only 3 times have I ever had to go into my kids room during the night, once because he was puking and twice because he woke up crying because of a nightmare. I don't think it would be proper to go out drinking while doing this or anything, but 1 hour at a restaurant nearby doesn't make you a terrible parent in my opinion. However I somewhat agree that the status of the parents probably helped in them not getting a lot of heat for this.
originally posted by: sputniksteve
VoidHawk makes it sound like they were just in an apartment building
originally posted by: supamoto
I'm going to see how I can obtain a copy of that book now.