Disappeared and Abducted Children and Young Adults > Portugal's missing children and child kidnapping cases.
Child abduction in Portugal and beyond - is it really so prevalent?
John:
There is without doubt a history of child disappearances on the Algarve going back many years. I have purposely not used the abduction label since abduction has not been proven in several of the cases such as René Hasée (6), Joana Cipriano (8) and Madeleine McCann (almost 4). There is also an alarming number of reports of British children, mainly girls, being targeted.
Some people choose to disregard these reports referring to them as Maddie hype, bogus, fantasy and the such like. Whatever ones views are, there is without doubt something sinister going on which the Portuguese authorities appear unable or unwilling to stop.
Please discuss.
Pre pubescent children (under 15 y.o.) in mainland Portugal disappeared / possibly stranger abducted.
Note
BLUE represents the north mainly in and to the north of Porto
RED represents the south around PdL
The disappearances and possible abductions started seriously in the north of PT, in the area of Porto and north of there, spreading towards Guimares in an easterly direction.
1. 1991 Jorge Sepulveda, aged 14, disappeared from the Masserelos district of Porto.
2. 1994 Claudia Silva e Sousa, aged 7, disappeared from Oleiros, Vila Verde, Braga. Believed to have been taken by two men and forced to get inside a car.
3. 1996 Rene Hasee (German boy on holiday), aged 6, disappeared from Amoreiras beach, Aljezur, [Atlantic] Algarve .. (approx 18 miles PdL)
4. 1998 Rui Pedro Mendonca, aged 11 or 12, taken from Lousada, Porto. It is now believed that this child was taken abroad and is in the hands of a paedophile network.
5. 1999 Rui Periera, aged 13 or 14, from Vila Nova de Famalicao, Braga. Believed seen in Switzerland with two Italian men.
On the internet I read on a forum that the son of an elite had been picked up by the PJ in the north [and ?charged?] but released with a warning. That was whitewashed out after I mentioned it on forum. A friend, Catkins, also saw another mention in a somewhat similar vein. She can no longer find her reference either, IIRC.
The abductions ceased in 1999, after the warning, for 5 years. Except for in Madeira IIRC, but here I think the father sold his child.
They started up again in the Algarve near PdL. after the 5 Year gap.
6. 2004 Joana Cipriano, aged 7 or 8, disappeared from Figueira, Algarve (7 miles from PdL). Mother and uncle convicted of murder but body has never been found.
7. Xmas day 2006, Carolina Santos, aged 3, attempted abduction from near Silves (approx 18 miles from PdL). Parents came out of cafe to find Carolina being led away by a man.
8. May 2007, Madeleine McCann, aged nearly 4, disappeared from holiday apartment at Ocean Club, Praia da Luz, while her parents dined nearby.
I have not included Titania/ Odete Freeman, aged about 3, who was passed around via three parts of the family and had three different names. No-one knew what had happened to her, including which part of the family she was with when she vanished, according to reports. Later they said she had died in an accident in Spain .
I am not aware of any newer cases but I haven't been searching for the past 4 or 5 years.
Please note that all the northern disappearances were clustered within an area of no more that about 32 miles across in Porto and to the north and east of there
All the southern disappearances, including Rene Hasee, were clustered within an area of about 25 miles across with the centre being near PdL
.... and there is approximately 300 miles between the two clusters.
NO other cases in the relevant age group anywhere else in mainland Portugal ... just in the two clusters only and 300 miles apart
[This post has been edited in terms of the forum policy on publishing factual information]
John:
--- Quote from: Luz on March 03, 2014, 12:35:58 PM ---That is a total falsehood. No British children were ever attacked, other than a british girl 9 years before Madeleine, and that was abused by a friend of the family(another british).
Those faked cases that Kate McCann had the effrontery of mentioning in her book never happened. That is all fabrications to sell the abduction theory.
--- End quote ---
That is not true Luz. There have been several attempts to snatch children over the last several years around the Algarve. Can I remind you of some like the man chased from the child's bedroom, the attempt to take a child in a cafe and an attempt by someone on a motorcycle to lift a Londonderry girl while on holiday. There are probably many others which like these have never even been followed up.
If you believe for a minute that these attempted abductions are fake then you are closing your eyes to reality.
colombosstogey:
--- Quote from: John on March 05, 2014, 06:05:28 AM ---That is not true Luz. There have been several attempts to snatch children over the last several years around the Algarve. Can I remind you of some like the man chased from the child's bedroom, the attempt to take a child in a cafe and an attempt by someone on a motorcycle to lift a Londonderry girl while on holiday. There are probably many others which like these have never even been followed up.
If you believe for a minute that these attempted abductions are fake then you are closing your eyes to reality.
--- End quote ---
They are BOGUS. IF you read into them properly and made little sense when reported. The only people saying they were real were people wanting to use these so called near abductions to strengthen the case for the McCann child to have been abducted.
For example Carolina Santos. BOGUS
If you check on archives you need to look at this piece from the Diário de Notícias of May 25, 2007:
A 30 years old man, from Morocco, threatened to kidnap the three year old daughter of a woman who rents a coffee-shop at Fonte de Luzeiros, between Silves and São Bartolomes de Messines." and that the "kidnap threat was made, last Tuesday".
See there was no actual attempt at kidnapping Carolina Santos, only a threat, and that it all happened after Madeleine was snatched, not four months beforehand.
Each one of the cases you mentioned can be blown out of the water.
John:
--- Quote from: colombosstogey on March 05, 2014, 09:49:39 AM ---They are BOGUS. IF you read into them properly and made little sense when reported. The only people saying they were real were people wanting to use these so called near abductions to strengthen the case for the McCann child to have been abducted.
For example Carolina Santos. BOGUS
If you check on archives you need to look at this piece from the Diário de Notícias of May 25, 2007:
A 30 years old man, from Morocco, threatened to kidnap the three year old daughter of a woman who rents a coffee-shop at Fonte de Luzeiros, between Silves and São Bartolomes de Messines." and that the "kidnap threat was made, last Tuesday".
See there was no actual attempt at kidnapping Carolina Santos, only a threat, and that it all happened after Madeleine was snatched, not four months beforehand.
Each one of the cases you mentioned can be blown out of the water.
--- End quote ---
Bogus and can be blown out of the water...really?
Exactly how is this fake?
Beast on a bike targeted girl, 4, weeks before Maddie was snatched.
Does an 'attempted kidnap' not merit the same condemnation as an actual kidnap in your book?
John:
Maybe these were fake too?
APRIL 14, 2004: Praia do Carvoeiro, Lagoa, 20 miles from Praia da Luz (PDA). s.e.x assault on 10-year-old girl.
JUNE 9 2005: Sao Rafael, near Sesmarias, 50 miles from PDA. s.e.x assault on nine-year-old girl.
JUNE 2 2006: Praia do Carvoeiro, Lagoa, 20 miles from PDA. s.e.x assault on seven-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister in separate rooms.
OCTOBER 29 2006: Albufeira, 45 miles from PDA. s.e.x assault on eight-year-old girl
CHRISTMAS DAY, 2006: Silves, 35 miles from PDA. Attempted abduction of three-year-old girl.
MAY 28 2007: Albufeira. 45 miles from PDA. Intruder disturbed at the bottom of nine-year-old girl's bed.
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