Defense attorney hopes for acquittal: Trial against Maddie suspect for other crimes begins on Friday. Christian B.
is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for raping an American woman in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2005. The then three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday resort on the Algarve in May 2007. Her parents left her in the apartment on the evening of May 3, 2007, while they ate with friends at a nearby restaurant.