Parents' plea for daughter's return
Madeleine McCann, 3, who has gone missing in PortugalThe parents of the three-year-old girl who went missing from a
Portuguese holiday apartment have made a heartfelt plea urging her abductors to return her to her family.
Gerry and Kate McCann begged for the safe return of their daughter, Madeleine, as the frantic search to find her continued.
She was last seen by her father sleeping soundly at around 9pm on Thursday night at the Ocean Club resort in the seaside village of Praia Da Luz in the south-western Algarve.
But at 10pm when her mother Kate went to check on her, she found the shutter slid up, the bedroom window open and her daughter gone.
Mr McCann read out a brief statement, with his wife at his side, pleading with the abductors to release the three-year-old - described as "happy-go-lucky" - back to her family.
With the emotion audible in his voice, he said: "We cannot describe the anguish and despair we are feeling as parents of our beautiful daughter Madeleine.
"We request that anyone with any information relating to Madeleine's disappearance, no matter how trivial, contact the Portuguese police and help us get her back safely."
He then directly addressed anyone who might be holding his daughter, saying: "Please, if you have Madeleine, let her come home to her Mummy, Daddy, brother and sister."
He also asked that the family's privacy be respected so that they can do as much as possible to help the police investigation into their daughter's disappearance.
"Everyone can understand how distressing the current situation is. We ask that our privacy is respected to allow us to continue assisting the police in their investigation," he said.
Monica Caison
CUE Center for Missing Persons
PO Box 12714
Wilmington, NC 28405
(910) 343-1131
(910) 232-1687 24 Hour Line
Email: cuecenter@aol.com
Website: http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/
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