I've been avoiding this topic, but I believe that what I just read at http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1287932,00.html shocked me more than I could imagine, especially the very last paragraph:
"Until 2004, possession of child pornography was not an offence in the country unless the material was sold on."
So in Portugal, up to 2004 if you possessed an underage pornographic material, that would NOT be an offence? So having this kind of things could maybe seam like normal? That stimulates abuse, I cannot find something against this thought, it is unbelievable and shocking!!!
Not surprisingly I've heard so many horrifying stories of child porn. I believe that only an abused child knows what that means and how horrible it is to be abused by elders, someone they think they can trust.
Well, about Madeleine, I don't know what happened to her - I've been reading and following the news every single day, since the very first days (watching sky news and bbc news 24 in London). She is the major victim in this whole story. If is she still alive? We hope so. If hasn't she been harmed? We prefer to think so. All we know is that she vanished, kind of "beyond belief" story; I wish it was only fiction, not fact.
