Pedophile questioned about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Posted on May 22, 2009
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Madeleine McCann was only 3 years old on May 3rd, 2007 when she disappeared from her parents holiday home in Portugal. The British family loved to vacation in Portugal and were staying in their rented vacation home with Madeleine and her siblings in May of 2007. That fateful night after putting the three children to bed they went to a Tapas bar just 120 yards away leaving the door unlocked. They took turns checking on their kids.

But somehow, the next morning they discovered that little Madeleine had disappeared and after 3 years there is no clue as to what might have happened to her. I cannot begin to fathom how excruciatingly painful it must be when your child is abducted. Many may question the reason why the parents left the kids alone with the door unlocked to go to a Tapas bar. But when you are on vacation, you let your guard down and don’t expect anything bad to happen. When I was on a vacation a few years back, we left our kids in the apartment watching TV and went out for a couple of drinks. We gave them a cell phone and made sure the door was locked from inside with strict warning not to open the door for anyone. We even had a special code with 3 knocks on the door before they were to open the door. We didn’t expect anything could go wrong and kept checking on our kids every 30 minutes by calling the cell phone. I am sure that’s what Madeleine’s parents were thinking as well when they left their children and went out; what could go wrong?

It’s been 3 years with the parents still hoping for a safe return of their child. The Portuguese police have closed the case after their investigation did not lead anywhere. The McCann family hired several private companies to help them find the child, but with no success. Recently a couple of retired police officers have joined their search team and seem to be doing a better job with the leads.

Today there was news that a 64 year old British pedophile named Raymond Hewlett might have been living within driving distance of the McCann’s vacation home. He is being suspected of involvement in the disappearance of little Madeleine. Apparently, Mr. Hewlett has been involved in several child abuse and sexual abuse cases including a 1975 murder for which he was never charged. He is currently in a German hospital receiving treatment for throat cancer. I just hope that if he indeed was involved, he admits to what happened to Madeleine so that the family finally gets some peace.

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  1. pee wee tequila wav on July 24th, 2009 3:14 pm

    eh. informative :)

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