I was addressing the connection between JT's sighting and Madeleine's disappearance which you claimed was "extremely tenuous" - are you not able to see things from JT's pov? Granted it requires a degree of empathy and imagination in order to do so but please try again. She sees a man carrying a small apparently female child in close proximity to the apartment from which Madeleine disappeared some time (as far as she is concerned between Madeleine's father's and Madeleine's mother's checks) and you wonder why she made a connection and then spoke up about it? I ask again, what would you have done in such a situation?
Jane Tanner said;
At the time she had not paid him much attention because it is common, at the OC, for children to pass in the arms of their parents between the creche and their respective homes, when they have collected them from the baby-sitting service.
So can we assume she just glanced at him? She gave a very detailed description of someone she didn't pay much attention to.