Madeleine McCann

[mi16]

A lot of credit has to go to mr and mrs mcann for keeping this case in our minds

[Neil Howie]

Does anyone know how many british children have disapeared since this little girl? It would be great if all the cases were treated with the same vigor and publicity.

It's a good question.

I haven't seen any figures.

That is, those who stay missing : those missing minus those found.

Plus some of the missing are likely to be abducted by a parent in a custody dispute.

There is a charity website Missing Kids but that doesn't record all missing children.

Article on the Indy in 2009 looked at missing people in the UK.

[Southern-Gal]

I wonder if the little girl found with the roma couple has been discovered as a result of enquiries leading from the Madelaine McCann investigation?

[Neil Howie]

As far as I know she was just discovered by chance by a sharp eyed policeman who noticed her hair sticking out from some bedclothes.

The reason given (at least in the press) for the raid is per bbc report:

Police raided the Roma camp, near Farsala in central Greece, to search for drugs and weapons. The little girl was allegedly being used to beg on the streets
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They noticed the lack of resemblance between the blonde-haired, green-eyed, pale-skinned little girl and her parents, and found further discrepancies when they investigated the family's documents.