Abduction of Rahma el-Dennaoui

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Rahma el-Dennaoui (born April 2004) is an Australian girl who went missing on 2005-11-10.[1] She was last seen in the bedroom of her Sydney home early that morning, where the 19-month old girl and her siblings slept. Despite a police search and appeals to the general public, no trace of the little girl has yet been found.[2]

Rahma was between two of her sisters on a double bed under the window. She had trouble sleeping in the heat and her father got up and went to check on her at 2 AM. When he returned at 8 AM, she was gone.[3] Rahma had not been walking long, and it is nearly a kilometre from the el-Dennaoui home to any bushland, making a toddler's journey there unlikely. However, there was a rip in the fly-screen covering the window above her bed, and this opening was large enough for Rahma to fit through.[4] Other sources say the screen was cut, not torn.[3] Sniffer dogs found no trace of the little girl, and police are now treating the disappearance as an abduction, although no motive was known.[2]

In May, 2007, New Idea magazine offered a $20,000 (AUS) reward for information on what happened to Rahma. The magazine's editor-in-chief Robyn Foster says it was the similarities between Rahma and the highly publicised case of Madeleine McCann that sparked her interest in the case.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Murray, Kate. "She's been taken", Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 2007-10-29. 
  2. ^ a b Munro, Catharine. "Sister Pleads for Return of Rahma As FBI Alerted", Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved on 2007-10-29. 
  3. ^ a b Miller, Barbara. Magazine offers reward for info on missing Australian girl. The World Today. Retrieved on 2007-10-29.
  4. ^ Tadros, Edmund. "Without a Trace: Police Fear Toddler Was Abducted from Her Bedroom", Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved on 2007-10-29. 
  5. ^ Richardson, David. Stranger danger. Today Tonight. Retrieved on 2007-10-29.
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