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11 Apr 05:59am

Filed under: Children, Law, Madeleine Mccann, Media, Missing Persons, Police, Rahma El Dennaoui

It’s impossible to imagine what life must be like for the parents of Rahma El-Dennaoui and Madeleine McCann. Losing a child is a torment. Losing them without a trace, with no explanation, would be doubly so.

Madeleine McCann and Rahma El-Dennaoui

It’s more than six years since little Rahma was put to bed with her sisters in their Sydney home, not to be seen since. Despite years of hard effort by the NSW police, the only solid sign of what might have happened is a cut or tear in the fly screen above her bed. It’s a genuine mystery a two-week coronial inquest that got underway yesterday hopes to clarify.

Deputy State Coroner Sharon Freund yesterday described Rahma’s disappearance as: “every parent’s worst nightmare”. For once this oft-abused description was appropriate, as it is for the McCanns, whose daughter Madeleine vanished 18 months after Rahma, this time from a hotel room in Portugal.

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Gabriel says:

05:18pm | 11/07/12

Objectifying him like this, + No no. I cannot say that word. I may call it “gluetei mxmaii”. That other word is just not fit for a guy in his category. Strangly enough, my personal favourite so far is “Australia”. An epic movie of “Gone With the Wind” proportions. And… Read more »
Darryl says:

08:25pm | 12/04/12

Honesty you have something wrong with you to carry on like that in lite of a tragic situation like this. It’s clear that you have a lot of hate in you. Some things are cross cultural like respect for the innocence of children. Read more »

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