Gerry and Kate McCann are parents of Madeleine McCann who went missing in May 2007 from her family’s holiday villa in Portugal.
Despite the global search, high level of media coverage and funding, there have been no significant clues as to what could have happened to Maddie.
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The ongoing saga surrounding the disappearance of British child Madeleine McCann, which first rocked the world news twelve years ago, has recently taken a new twist after Operation Grange was confirmed to have been granted special funding to pursue leads until at least March 2020.

Critics are fuming over the funding, but we all know that the race against time, the value of the love of a child is priceless. We hope this will bring Maddie back. But the sad news is that not every child is Madeleine McCann or John Paul Getty III, the grandson of American billionaire oil tycoon Getty Sr , who was once the richest man in the world.

A myriad of children worldwide are missing and their parents and relatives will never have the same opportunities, neither from the police, nor from a billionaire grandparent, if their children go missing or are abducted.

Action and preventions are of paramount importance to avoid the consequences of the likes of the notorious James Bulger abduction case.

According to the Home Office of England and Wales’ Crime Statistics, ‘A child disappears in the UK every three minutes’[…]whereas in the United States of America, the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children recently reported that ‘a child goes missing every 40 seconds; thus 2,000 per day, or roughly 800,000 children, are missing every year in America’.
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The world statistics related to missing children are truly beyond belief. According to the Home Office of England and Wales’ Crime Statistics, ‘A child disappears in the UK every three minutes’, whereas in the United States of America, the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children recently reported that ‘a child goes missing every 40 seconds; thus 2,000 per day, or roughly 800,000 children, are missing every year in America’.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic: ‘A child goes missing every six hours in South Africa’, according to recent figures released by the South African Police Service Missing Persons Bureau.

The world’s media has always been prompt in splashing sensationalist headlines and broadcasting special crime watch programmes related to issues of missing children.

However, it looks as though this approach has not necessarily led to dramatic action or improvement in terms of prevention of such crimes.

According to UNICEF, child trafficking…

Below is some useful advice to parents, teachers or child welfare workers from around the world to prevent child abductions, with special emphasis on the gradated precautions according to a child’s social background….

Young children or teenagers should:…

On May 3rd 2007, Madeleine McCann then three disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva, Praia da Luz, a resort in the Algarve region of Portugal.
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What if an offender grabs your child’s wrist or attempts to lure them away somewhere or abduct them?…

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The Bridge Magazine Editor.