Maddie McCann's Parents Launch New Appeal to Find Her

ABC- The parents of missing British girl, Madeleine McCann urged the government today to renew efforts to find her.

Nearly three years after Maddie McCann disappeared in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, just days before her fourth birthday, her father, Gerry McCann accused British authorities of giving up on the search for his "innocent, vulnerable" daughter.

"I don't think it's right that as parents, that we have to drive the search. Of course we will, but not everyone has had the same resources and support that we have had to be able to do that. And I think it's pretty cruel," Gerry McCann said in an interview on the British broadcast of GMTV.

Gerry and Kate McCann today released a pack of posters to the public which can be displayed all over the world, to remind people to be on the look out for their missing child.

On May 3, 2007, Madeleine disappeared from the holiday apartment where the McCanns were staying, when her parents stepped out for dinner in a nearby restaurant, leaving their three children alone in the flat.

The parents established a campaign to find her, and won the support of several high-profile figures, including soccer star David Beckham and industrialist Richard Branson.

Last year, on the second anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, they released an "age progression" photograph of her, showing her as she would have looked on what would have been her sixth birthday.

They launched the picture with a fresh appeal for information about her whereabouts on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

In 2008, Portuguese authorities closed the case and cleared Kate and Gerry McCann of any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance. But criticism of the couple -- and their decision to leave Madeleine unattended in the hotel room -- persists in some quarters.

During her interview with Winfrey, Kate McCann acknowledged the criticism and said, "I can persecute myself every day about that. I feel awful that we weren't there, at that minute, somebody took an opportunity to take Madeleine."

Today Gerry McCann said on GMTV, "If we could turn back the clock and change what happened, obviously we wouldn't have done it."

"We can't. And what I would say is, you know, people have got to put themselves into our position. What would you do if it was your daughter? After this, what would you do?"

Kate McCann said she found Madeleine's absence on her birthday on May 12 particularly hard to endure, explaining "the 12th is obviously a day when we should be celebrating Madeleine, celebrating with Madeleine."

But even on other days, she said, the fact of Madeleine's absence "will just suddenly stop you. We had a lovely day last week and it was really sunny, and you could smell the grass being cut and I thought, 'Oh it's really nice'. And then it just kind of gets you. Madeleine is still not here."

Gerry McCann said today that he continued to believe his daughter was alive. "Certainly in my heart I feel she is out there. I mean I know there is nothing to say that she isn't, so we have to carry on working and thinking like that," he said.

His wife, who also appeared on GMTV, said, "If we haven't found Madeleine, if we don't know what has happened, you haven't done enough."

Gerry McCann added that until the person who took Madeleine is caught, he or she continues to be a threat to other children, saying, "at the end of the day, the person that has taken Madeleine is still out there and they are a potential danger to other children, so they need to be brought to justice."

New Probe Yields Image of Madeleine McCann Suspect

Could a sketch of a man seen near the apartment where Madeleine McCann vanished two years ago provide new clues in the hunt to find the child?

At least, that is the hope of her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, who are participating in a new film alongside a team of detectives they hired to help re-investigate the case.

So far, those investigators have discovered that some potential witnesses spotted a man, with pockmarked features, watching the holiday apartment in the resort of Praia de Luz, Portugal. It was from there that Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday.

The detectives have been combing through files from the case closed by local police last summer. A new film, Cutting Edge: Madeleine Was Here (to be shown Thursday on the U.K.'s Channel 4 at 9 p.m.), follows the probe.

Her parents recognize that Madeleine could have changed. A new image has been released of what she now might look like. But other changes are likely, too. "She could be speaking a different language, she might have her hair different, she might have different interests, but you know she's still our daughter," he mother says in the film.

Retired police detective Dave Edgar, who leads the family's search team, believes an answer lies with the local people in Portugal.

The McCanns have been stepping up their fight to keep Madeleine in the news and fuel a continuing hunt for her around this second anniversary. In a show that recently aired in the U.S., the parents told Oprah Winfrey, "We're really united in our goal and our love of Madeleine and [her younger siblings, twins] Sean and Amelie."

Image Shows What Missing Madeleine McCann May Look Like

(CNN) -- The parents of missing English toddler Madeleine McCann on Friday unveiled a digitally enhanced picture showing what she might look like today if she is still alive.

Madeleine was 3 years old when she disappeared during a family vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 4, 2007. Portuguese police closed the case last July without a resolution.

The picture, which her parents revealed in an interview on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" airing Monday, is a school-style photo showing Madeleine at 6 years old, with a pink headband and shoulder-length hair.

An expert at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children created the image using photographs of Madeleine's parents, a spokesman for the center told Guardian.co.uk.

Kate and Gerry McCann also discussed how they're coping with the disappearance of their daughter.

"Child abduction, I think, could destroy any family. There's no doubt about it," Gerry McCann told Winfrey.

"But we've been supported tremendously well and I think that's helped us stay strong and stay together. Obviously, we're really united in our goal and our love of Madeleine and Sean and Amelie."

Kate McCann said she keeps Madeleine's room ready for her and admitted to visiting it twice daily, "just [to] say hello... just [to] tell her we're still going ... to do everything we can to find her."

Madeleine vanished from the family's holiday villa at the Portuguese beach resort while her parents dined in a nearby restaurant. The couple have campaigned publicly for information about their daughter's whereabouts since her disappearance.

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