Authorities in Portugal are searching for 3 year old Madeleine McCann, a British girl kidnapped from the apartment villa in the southern Algarve region where her family was staying on May 3. The girl was taken from the bedroom where she was sleeping Thursday night while her parents dined nearby with friends.
Spanish police yesterday arrested an Italian man and a Portuguese woman in the disappearance. Word of the arrests comes amid reports that Portuguese police had been pursuing a tip that Madeleine had been abducted by a convicted sex offender known as "the Frenchman." The identities of the man and the woman were not immediately made public. It is believed he intended to sell the girl to an international pedophile ring.
(Lisbon, Portugal)