Establishing the identity of an abducted child by DNA.

[jassi]

Identity is something we all have to prove...opening a bank account...getting a passport...jobs...DBS check...the list goes on

By producing various pieces of paperwork, which as some have pointed out, could be forgeries, but which seem to be readily accepted by the authorities.

[Alice Purjorick]

By producing various pieces of paperwork, which as some have pointed out, could be forgeries, but which seem to be readily accepted by the authorities.

Have you seen the caveat on copies of birth certificates?

[John]

This is can new thread spun off from the claimed sightings thread.

[misty]

Please don't forget this case when it comes to DNA testing proving who the biological parents of a child are.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/south-african-parents-reunited-with-daughter-17-years-after-kidnapping-1.2975257

Madeleine could be anywhere in the world living with people who may have 8 years of "legal" documentation, records & photographs - and a large percentage of the world knows next to nothing about her.

[mercury]

Madeleine could be anywhere in the world living with people who may have 8 years of "legal" documentation, records & photographs - and a large percentage of the world knows next to nothing about her.

 

Yeah ok dream on

[Eleanor]

Please don't forget this case when it comes to DNA testing proving who the biological parents of a child are.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/south-african-parents-reunited-with-daughter-17-years-after-kidnapping-1.2975257

Madeleine could be anywhere in the world living with people who may have 8 years of "legal" documentation, records & photographs - and a large percentage of the world knows next to nothing about her.

Yes, she very well could.  And the first thing they will have done is to get a forged birth certificate.  You can even do it yourself.
Likewise, photographs won't have been difficult.

[sadie]

Please don't forget this case when it comes to DNA testing proving who the biological parents of a child are.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/south-african-parents-reunited-with-daughter-17-years-after-kidnapping-1.2975257

Madeleine could be anywhere in the world living with people who may have 8 years of "legal" documentation, records & photographs - and a large percentage of the world knows next to nothing about her.

Exactly



And as Elli says, with money and the right resources which my guys had,  it would not be so difficult to get forged papers.   

They would have taken photos of her thru the time she was with them ... and any old photos of a baby that roughly resembled her to take her back to her "birth"

[stephen25000]

Exactly



And as Elli says, with money and the right resources which my guys had,  it would not be so difficult to get forged papers.   

They would have taken photos of her thru the time she was with them ... and any old photos of a baby that roughly resembled her to take her back to her "birth"

Strumming in the wind and not one piece of cast iron evidence to suggest she is alive.

[Eleanor]

Strumming in the wind and not one piece of cast iron evidence to suggest she is alive.

Or that she is dead.

[Benice]

Strumming in the wind and not one piece of cast iron evidence to suggest she is alive.

And not one piece of cast iron evidence to suggest she is dead either.

The same goes for Ben Needham.   Would you describe his mother as' strumming in the wind' for still looking for her son after 23 years?

[stephen25000]

Or that she is dead.

....and not one trace of her in well over 8 years despite extensive worldwide publicity ?

[stephen25000]

And not one piece of cast iron evidence to suggest she is dead either.

The same goes for Ben Needham.   Would you describe his mother as' strumming in the wind' for still looking for her son after 23 years?

I was waiting for that case to be brought up.

Do you think Ben is alive as well ?

[Eleanor]

....and not one trace of her in well over 8 years despite extensive worldwide publicity ?

Some of us have hope, Stephen.  And some of us don't.

[stephen25000]

Some of us have hope, Stephen.  And some of us don't.

You are more than entitled to hope, and perhaps that is something women do more better than men, and I'm not being sexist.

I tend to view the world in a more clinical way, call that pessimistic if you will.

[Eleanor]

You are more than entitled to hope, and perhaps that is something women do more better than men, and I'm not being sexist.

I tend to view the world in a more clinical way, call that pessimistic if you will.

I would rather call it cynical.  But that is your problem and not mine.