Portugal, dangerous place for children:

What has happened to René Hasee and to other children missing in Portugal:


During a vacation 6 year old René disappeared on the 19th June 1996 about 6pm on the beach of Amoreiras close to Aljezur (Portugal).














It is shocking to realize how many children have snatched in Portugal. Non-family abductions are usually rare and Portugal is small country, but in Portugal there is several of them.

These children, many of them now adults, if still alive, were never seen again by their loved ones. And they need closure. They deserve to know what happened to their sons and daughters, who were snatched from their simple and normal lives.


Jorge Sepúlveda: missing since 15/08/1991 - 14 years old in 1991 ;disappeared from Massarelos, Porto. Jorge has a brown birth mark near his navel.








Cláudia Alexandra Silva e Sousa: missing since 13/05/1994 - 7 years old in 1994; disappeared from her hometown in Oleiros - Vila Verde. The child has a 10 cm scar in her right thigh, a scar in her lower lip and another in a finger.








João Teles: missing since 06/10/1998 - 16 years old in 1998; disappeared from Câmara dos Lobos, Madeira.










Rui Pedro Mendonça: missing since 04/03/1998 - 11 years old in 1998; taken from his town of Lousada. It is now believed that this child was taken abroad and is in the in the hands of a pedophile network. For further information: http://www.ruipedro.net






Rui Pereira: missing since 02/03/1999 - 13 years old in 1999; a boy from Vila Nova Famalicão. Rui has a small scar near his left eye, a scar between his upper lip and his right nostrel and a big birth mark on his back.







Sofia Oliveira: missing since 22/02/2004 - 2 years old in 2004: kidnapped from her mother's home, in Câmara dos Lobos, Madeira. Her father took her without her mother's knowledge and somehow the child got lost after that.







Joana Cipriano: missing since September 2004 - 8 years old in 2004; last seen in Portimão, Algarve.







Tatiana Mendes or Odete Freman or Odete Frima: missing since May 2005 - 7 years old in 2005; she was "adopted" by a couple with her mother's acceptance. She travelled to Portugal in May 2004, however a year later her adopting mother said that the young girl was given to another person and that, still in the year 2004, the girl had died in a traffic accident somewhere in the area of Badajoz/Espanha.



Ana Santos: missing since 15/06/2005 - 15 years old in 2005; last seen in Montijo, Setúbal.









Sara Raquel Pinho Reis: missing since 23/02/2007 - 17 years old in 2007; disappeared from her hometown in Trofa - Porto.







Madeleine Beth Mccann: missing since 03/05/2007 - 4 years old in 2007; disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Lagos,Portugal.







Rita Marques Cardoso Santos: missing since 01/08/2007 - 16 years old in 2007; She was last seen in the area of Chelas - Lisbon.






Pamela Matias Santos: missing since 23/09/2007 - 17 years old in 2007; disappeared from Santarém.








Jacira Rocha Gomes: missing since 23/11/2007 - 17 years old in 2007; the missing girl studies in the 8º grade of the secondary school D. Luísa de Gusmão, in the area of Penha de França, Lisbon. There were sightings in Moita, Vale de Amoreira e Cidade Sol, no Barreiro.





Rebeca dos Anjos Cardoso missing since 23/03/2008 - 15 years old in 2008; Lost nearby Massamá Sintra. Wear at the time,denim trousers and white pullover.





But here are not all missing children, according to Instituto de Apoio à Criança in 2006 disappeared in Portugal 31 children. Of these 31 cases, five were of children under the age of six and 17 related to children between the ages of 11 and 15, with 54 per cent of children going missing from the Lisbon area along. Unfortunately, only 24 of the 31 missing children have so far been found and two of those were found already dead.

http://www.portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=19001

That means there is still 7 missing children disappeared in 2006, but who they are? No names, no images?

"Sadly, reported cases of missing children have increased since the SOS phone line was created in 1988."

But Instituto de Apoio à Criança tells us not anymore how many children is missing in Portugal, because there is new organization for this: Portuguese Association for Missing Children and leader of this organization is Paulo Pereira Cristovao:. This same man who together with Amaral fabricated unbelievable lies (paedo-tom-tom) against Madeleine's parents, was one of the Joanas mother's assaulters and wrote books about Joana and Madeleine.

HEAD of Portugal's new foundation for missing children:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-501093/McCanns-arrested-abandoning-Madeleine-missing-childrens-boss-says.html

Increasing of disappearances of children reminds me what happened before Casa Pia scandal broke.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/27/childprotection.uk

"Investigators from the Swiss-based Innocence in Danger group, which claims children regularly disappear from the poorer streets of Portuguese towns and cities, say they too have been harassed and threatened."

Casa Pia scandal broke in September 2002 half year after Barroso's party Social Democratic Party ousted the socialists in March 2002, he promised to bring life and honor back into the Casa Pia child's homes and allow new director Catalina Pestana reform to the institution. As a result, several senior staff of Casa Pia were fired after the 2002 revelations.

But when the Socialists got to the power again 2005 (Most of Casa Pia abusers were linked in Socialist Party) they began to advocate the Casa Pia charges down and they relaxed law, ahead of the forthcoming Casa Pia trial (if it never comes), what means that repeat offences against the same child would merit only a single charge - and a lesser sentence. Most of men linked in Casa Pia scandal (Carlos Cruz, known in Portugal as "Mr. Television"; Manuel Abrantes, a former director of Casa Pia; Joao Ferreira Diniz, a doctor at Casa Pia; Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador to UNESCO; Hugo Marcal, Carlos Silvino's former attorney; Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, Portugal's Socialist Party leader; television talk show host Herman Jose; and Paulo Pedroso, a former Labour minister are free men now despite testimonies against them and abusers in Casa Pia orphanages still continues according to Catalina Pestana (Casa Pia II).

"The latest moves in both the McCann case and the Casa Pia investigation also come days after explosive ‘tell-all’ revelations in the weekend broadsheet newspaper Sol by retired Casa Pia director Catalina Pestana, in which she claimed sexual abuses of minors within the state-run establishment for orphans and children at risk were “still going on”.

http://portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=22176

Casa Pia: Children regularly disappear from the poorer streets of Portuguese towns and cities

I found more information about portuguese missing children (missing in 2006)

http://tinyurl.com/2zbwjh

Children missing: line opened 31 processes 2007/05/08 | 17:27 The line SOS Children Desaparecida, of the Institute of the Child Support (IAC), opened in 2006 thirty-one new cases involving minors missing was located 24, the news agency Lusa. The figures, revealed by the institute, show that in two cases the children were already found without life, seven in whereabouts remains unknown despite the joint endeavours of the IAC, Judicial Police and other police forces. Most of the disappearances reported, according to data from the IAC, relate to the leak of children (61 percent), especially at home but also to institutions where they are hosted. However, six cases fall within the concept of abduction by third and four in the parental abduction. From the statistical analysis of the series of 2006, the IAC states that the situation came to its attention by section (3 cases), via E-mail (12 cases) and, in particular, the line 1410 (16 cases). Of the situations reported, 19 were girls and 12 were boys. More than half of children (55 percent) as missing data had between 11 and 15 years of age (17 cases) and between 16 and 18 years (7 cases). In 2006, five cases were also reported concerning children between one and five years. In most cases (54 percent) minors resided in the district of Lisbon (16 cases), and that four disappeared in Porto, three in Faro, two in Setúbal and one in Viseu. According to data from the IAC were also reported four cases of missing children abroad, particularly in Brazil. The Institute for the Child Support, Portuguese only organisation that integrates the European Federation for Missing and Exploited Children Sexually, it has to work since May 2004 a green line (1410) designed exclusively for the withdrawal of disappearances. From 2004 until the end of 2005 were reported to the IAC a total of 48 cases of disappearances in 2006 and the line opened 31 new cases. These new cases were initiated in view of the five concepts adopted in 2001 by the Council of Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs of the European Union in its resolution on the contribution of civil society to the search of missing children and sexually exploited. Here you can find same information too: http://portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=19001 Alexandra Simões, co-ordinator of the SOS missing child phone line for Instituto de Apoio à Criança, told The Resident that last year the institution opened 31 new cases relating to missing children. Of these 31 cases, five were of children under the age of six and 17 related to children between the ages of 11 and 15, with 54 per cent of children going missing from the Lisbon area along. Unfortunately, only 24 of the 31 missing children have so far been found and two of those were found already dead. Sadly, reported cases of missing children have increased since the SOS phone line was created in 1988. ***** So it means 7 portuguese children missing in 2006 are obviously still missing because this IAC report was given in May/2007. But I'm not able to find any information of them and who they are?

***** These kind of missings reminds me of about what happened in Portugal before Casa Pia-scandal came out.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,848412,00.html

"Investigators from the Swiss-based Innocence in Danger group, which claims children regularly disappear from the poorer streets of Portuguese towns and cities, say they too have been harassed and threatened."

There have been 31 children gone missing last year in Portugal!

http://mwglobal.org/app_letters/?m=20071027

"PORTUGAL: Some Missing Children More Equal than Others
October 27th, 2007

Dear Editor

The report by Mario de Queiroz, suggests that there have been 31 children gone missing last year in Portugal; and that none given the attention as that of Madeleine McCann.
In Portugal, SOS Crianca Desaparecida (SOS Missing Children) of the Instituto de Apoio a Crianza opened 31 new cases last year of missing children, involving 19 girls and 12 boys. Filgueiras said that when Portuguese children go missing, “no TV station airs photos of the victims”. Another blog, http://insolitos-da-gravata.blogspot.com/, notes that in the case of Joanna, a Portuguese girl who disappeared a year ago, ‘’it took the police several days to start searching, while in this case it took just 30 minutes, and I can’t avoid thinking, selfishly, that it was only because she was from a well-off English family, since any of us would have had to wait for 48 hours after the disappearance, as established by law.”
However, I’m sure most people in Britain would agree that this should not be the case. But on the contrary all children should have equal high profile if gone missing. But surely the fact Portuguese children who have gone missing are not given high profile, or any for that matter, is a failing on the part of Portuguese, bureaucracy and is nothing to do with parents of missing Madeleine or that they are doctors. And why is it that when a British girl goes missing, the parents are treated as suspects, but when Portuguese children are reported ‘gone missing’ we are simply led to believe that they have been abducted. Surely the stress should lie on finding these missing children and trying to make countries like Portugal a safer place to live or visit. This of course can only be done by bringing these matters to people’s attention, as we do here in Britain.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Phillips
England - Oswestry"