Madeleine McCann -- Missing 5/3/07

Madeleine McCann felt violated after diaries reprinted

Avril Ormsby, Reuters
November 24, 2011, 5:13 am

LONDON (Reuters) - The mother of missing youngster Madeleine McCann described Wednesday how she felt "violated" by the publication of her diary in the News of the World without her permission.

Kate McCann told the Leveson inquiry into media practices and ethics how she had returned from church to discover that the newspaper had virtually printed her diary verbatim from what looked like a Portuguese translation without her knowledge.

"I felt totally violated. You know, I'd written these words and thoughts at the most desperate time in my life," she said.

"Most people won't have to experience that and it was my only way of communicating with Madeleine."

She said it had made her feel "very vulnerable and small."

Kate McCann and her husband Gerry also told the hearing at London's High Court how after their young daughter went missing during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 media coverage quickly became speculative and sinister.

Read more: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/11973782/madeleine-mccann-felt-violated-after-diaries-reprinted/

Pat Brown is in Praia da Luz at the moment researching the McCann case. You can buy her ebook The Profile of the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, from Barnes and Noble, where she sets out her theory about what happened on the night of May 3rd. It will be interesting see what she finds out on her visit. You can follow her time in PDL on her website http://www.patbrownprofiling.blogspot.com/.