Cipriano.
The name used by the mccann supporters to claim a link to the mccann case, whereas of course there is nothing in common how the two girls disappeared, is there ?
I'm sure I can think of one or two similarities in Joana Cipriano's case and that of Madeleine McCann.
Both girls vanished without a trace.
The mothers of both girls fell under the suspicion of the investigation.
A virulent media campaign was unleashed on both women.
Let us now continue to where the similarity begins to diverge.
One woman ~ a poor, uneducated Portuguese peasant ~ was subjected to inhumane physical ill treatment while in police custody. The court recognised that she had been tortured.
The other woman ~ a middle class, well educated British subject ~ was subjected to inhumane mental ill treatment while being questioned as an arguida by the police.
One woman is serving out a long prison sentence with added time because she was unable to identify who had tortured her by the same court that ruled she had been tortured.
The other woman eventually had her arguida status lifted for the simple reason there was not a shred of evidence to support it ... or to support that her daughter was dead.
Back to Joana and Madeleine.
The court has convicted Joana's mother of her murder ... so no-one has been looking for Joana or is looking for her.
Madeleine's mother retained her freedom and the search for Madeleine in one form or another has never ceased, which for some reason or other seems to come between some people and their rest.
That we have a thread on this forum asking if Madeleine's parents would "have been tortured too had they been Portuguese?" shows, I think a recognition of just what a near run thing it could have been.
We do not know if there is anything in common between what happened to Joana and Madeleine ... for example if the same predator was responsible.
I would tend to think that may very well be because no-one bothered to look ... for very obvious reasons.
