30 kids lost in Portugal since Maddie went missing

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By ANTONELLA LAZZERI
Last Updated: 04th May 2012
THIRTY children have gone missing in Portugal since Madeleine McCann disappeared five years ago, official figures reveal.

The grim toll contradicts Portuguese claims her case was unique and abduction was rare.

Madeleine, who would now be nearly nine, was snatched from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3 2007. Since then, 30 youngsters under 18 have vanished. But it also emerged an abduction alert system introduced in 2009 for cops and other law enforcement has NEVER been activated.
This week law chiefs in Portugal snubbed a plea by Scotland Yard to reopen Madeleine’s case after a review unearthed 195 new leads.

And yesterday the Portuguese Attorney General Pinto Monteiro said British and Portuguese police weren’t even speaking.

He insisted there had been no formal request for Madeleine’s case to be reopened. When asked if he was having any talks with Brit cops he replied: “No.”

It was also revealed yesterday that details of over 100 calls to Crimestoppers about Madeleine in the days after she vanished were never handed to police. They mostly came from psychics. But Leicestershire cops said they were “over-run” with information.

Details of the calls have finally been handed to Scotland Yard.

Kate, 44, said on yesterday’s fifth anniversary: “Abducted children have been found many years following their disappearance.”

Prayers were said for Madeleine at a Mass in Woolton, Merseyside, where Kate and Gerry married. The couple marked the occasion at home in Rothley, Leicestershire.

There is only one lesson to be learned from that. Don't take your children to Portugal unless you are prepared to chain them to you 24/7. Some holiday if you are freaking out Day and Night. Children do get stolen from beaches and from their beds at night while their parents are sleeping.
Portugal is most unsafe if you ask me. And there is always the danger that you will get stitched up if any of your children are stolen.