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Don't think it's weird at all - could just be the media trying to be detectives and of course keep the copy rolling. What a scoop for Sky, the Mirror or whoever to be able to claim 'we trapped the perpetrator'. This of course doesn't rule out the possibility they may be right but I trust very little they claim before the facts are known.

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Can someone tell me why this case has attracted such a high level of interest from people offering rewards, etc. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying this is a bad thing and anything that can be done to find Maddie quicker is excellent.
I am just wondering why we have the likes of JK Rowling, Branson, Rooney offering rewards that have now totalled in excess of a couple of million I think. It is pretty unprecendented and I was wondering if this has happened before.
Child snatching is not a new occurence but the way this case is being treated makes it like its the first time its happened. I don't recall the same level of interest when, was it Ben, went missing in Greece. Maybe someone can correct me.
Please dont get me wrong, Im not having a go or implying any negativity, I'm just interested in peoples opinions as to why, or even if, they think that this case is being differently.

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I think it's pretty unique in the way it appears to have happened - child left alone (I'm not arguing the rights and wrongs of that), parents only 100 yards away, no forced entry etc. All this gives it added publicity.

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Educated, affluent and well connected parents?

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Interesting to look at those links a few hours later, they are now calling him a suspect, not a witness

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Well I'll believe all of that when I see/hear a Policeman or other official say it. Until then it's just more media speculation.

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i havent got a son/daughter of my own but im at home with my parents still and my dad brought my brothers son up to our house for a few hours hes only 2 years old called hayden then the news came on about this poor little girl :(
i really hope the weirdo is caught im just flabbogasted at ppl who could do such a thing :(
why o why there so mentally retarded to do/think such sick acts is beyond me :(
im crossing my fingers from now on in and hope the little girl is returned safe to her parents :)
people all over are saying its a bloke whos done this????
like no1 knows whos done it theres alot of sick woman who could do this too ?
fingers crossed for her safe return.

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That's because Portugese law very helpfully allows for 'suspect' to be attached to someone as an official designation - the police can declare it or the 'witness' can ask for it to be applied to him if he chooses. Apparently it grants the person being questioned certain legal rights.

In other words, it may or may not mean anything. As with everything else to do with this investigation, it pays to remember that this is all taking place in another country with a different legal system.

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What I'm about to say maybe a tad contraversial so I'll tag it. Admins / Mods - feel free to remove it if required. Flame me if you like...

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It gives people something to do as a lot of them are feeling helpless.
I even recieved a chain email yesterday about it.

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I gave up trying to educate people that these things being sent around the net are not good after the last person I replied to asking for no more said I was hearless and there really was a little baby suffering from cancer and Bill Gates was tracking the email...

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2 months ago I had a chain email trying to round up support for a group who were campaigning to keep the Jamie Bulger killers behind bars.

They were released 5/6 years ago.

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And so the panic measures start: Kevin "Captain Cyborg" (so called because he specialises in designing implants and installing them in his own body) Warkwick has been recieving emails from concerned parents asking about RFID tags for kids. He, of course, is listening to the concerns, and thinks the industry could take off this year. Same as he did with the Soham murders.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05...duction_chips/

Still, Michelle Elliot, director of Kidscape sums up my own feelings..

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Mine to :tu: :tu: