Pointing fingers over a missing child.

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Britain and Portugal

Haven’t the McCanns suffered enough? asked Lorraine Kelly in the London Sun. Little Madeleine McCann has been missing for more than 100 days. Her parents, Kate and Gerry, have been through months of hell since they returned from dinner in a Portuguese resort to find that the 4-year-old had been abducted from the hotel room. The McCanns have tortured themselves with guilt for having left the girl and her 2-year-old twin siblings “alone in their holiday apartment.” They have spared no effort to search for their daughter, blanketing Europe with ads and pleas, appearing on every TV and radio show that would take them, and blogging relentlessly. Yet last week, “a disgraceful whispering campaign” sprang up in the Portuguese press after Portuguese police announced they had found specks of blood in the room and no longer suspected abduction. Maddy’s parents face completely unfounded, “vile accusations that they could have harmed or even killed her.”

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