15 Photos Of Missing Children That’ll Give You The Chills
OK, strap yourselves in; this is going to be an uncomfortable one. When a filmmaker (with no sense of subtlety) wants to indicate to the audience in no uncertain terms that a character is a baddie, they’ll have the character kick a dog. This communicates to us that the character is pure evil and not to be sympathized with. But they could just as easily kick a kid. Most films aren’t brave enough to try to depict child abuse, but sadly, it happens in the real world. Far more often than we’d ever care to think about.Don’t get me wrong. This article is not meant to scare all parents out there into hovering over their kids 24/7 for fear of abduction. Most people are good people. The vast majority of adults would help a lost kid get home, not abduct them from home. But sadly, with over seven billion people on Earth, even a small minority is a large group in actual numbers. There are a lot of hateful freaks out there. When a child is harmed, or worse still, murdered, the best we can hope for is that the perpetrators are caught and brought to justice. However, sometimes, we don’t even get that. This list depicts photos of children who were abducted and never seen again, alive or dead.Note: It should go without saying, but these stories, and some of these photos, are very disturbing and upsetting.
15. Madeleine McCann
Madeleine McCann is one of Britain’s most famous missing children. She went missing in 2007 while on holiday with her family in the Algarve in Portugal. Her parents came to their room to find their twin children safe in bed but their daughter Madeleine was gone. Suspicion first fell on a British-Portuguese property consultant Robert Murat who had been seen outside the McCann’s apartment. Murat became the first official ‘arguido’ (suspect), but a thorough search of his apartment, pool, and cars turned up nothing and his arguido status was eventually lifted. The next arguidos were the McCanns themselves, who the Portuguese police believed may have hidden Madeleine’s body in a panic after she died in an accident while unsupervised. This lead to many UK tabloids throwing dirt upon the McCanns, which has resulted in lawsuits. The Portuguese police only ever considered the McCanns because they misinterpreted DNA evidence compiled by Scotland Yard. The Portuguese police’s main theory is that McCann was abducted for the purposes of a pedophile ring. Whatever the case, Madeleine’s whereabouts are still unknown and hers is, according to at least one newspaper, the “most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history”.
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