LONDON
(AFP) - Police say they plan to post pictures of missing toddler Madeleine
McCann in the Second Life virtual world.
Investigators are in talks with Second Life to prominently display pictures of
the missing four-year-old who vanished in Portugal nearly six weeks ago, said
Jim Gamble of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP).
Madeleine's parents -- Gerry and Kate McCann -- are also trying to convince
search engine goliath Google to display their daughter's eyes in the double o's in its name on its site.
The couple told AFP on Sunday that Google had yet to respond to their request.
The McCanns are also pushing Harry Potter novellist
JK Rowling to include bookmarks featuring Madeleine's picture in the seventh
and last installment of the wildly popular books, set
to go on sale next month.
The couple, who in recent weeks have been on a European tour to appeal for
information about their daughter's whereabouts, are currently in Morocco to
gear up support from authorities there to find their daughter, who disappeared
on May 3 in the southern Portuguese resort town of Praia da
Luz.
Moroccan authorities have assured the McCanns they "will do everything to
help to find Madeleine," the girl's father told a press conference in Rabat on Monday.
"Given the lack of evidence that she is still in Portugal, Kate and I, we have to take into
consideration all the possibilities that she moved out of Portugal into Spain
and quite possibly could have been brought to Morocco," he said.
"That is the main reason for coming here," he added, asking the
Moroccan public to call in any tips on his daughter's whereabouts to police at
0 8000 25 11.
He denied that the visit to Morocco
was linked to a tip last month from a Norwegian woman, Mari Olli, who said she
had seen Madeleine in the south of the country.
Olli, 45, who had been vacationing in Morocco,
told Portuguese daily Correio da
Manha that she had seen the four-year-old girl in a
service station south of Marrakesh
six days after she disappeared.
"She was wearing light blue pajamas" and
had asked a man with her "who could not have been her father" if she
would soon see her mother, Olli said. |