As of: March 12, 2024, 7:10 p.m
By: Teresa Toth
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The mother of Maddie's main suspect, Christian B., is said to have banned her son from her life.
Friends report an already difficult relationship.
Braunschweig – 16 years have now passed since Maddie McCann disappeared without a trace in Portugal.
More and more evidence suggests that Christian B. could have had something to do with the disappearance.
But that's not all: a trial is currently underway against the 46-year-old German for five offenses, including several rapes.
Reason enough for his mother to turn away from her son.
Is Christian B. responsible for Maddie's disappearance?
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Christian B. has been officially suspected in the Maddie McCann case since 2020
“I don’t want to have anything to do with him anymore,” the British tabloid
Sun
quoted the adoptive mother as saying.
Reporters from the paper visited the pensioner in her home village in Franconia.
Since Christian B. was considered the main suspect in the Maddie case, he has “destroyed her life from the ground up,” she is said to have said in an interview.
The 46-year-old, who has been convicted several times for sexual abuse of children, has been officially suspected since June 2020 - according to
Bild
information, a former friend of his had already expressed his suspicions about Christian B. to Scotland Yard in 2008.
Christian B.'s mother is said to have used violence against her son in the past
According to the
Sun
report, Christian B's mother is said to have adopted him along with his older brother in the late 1970s.
The birth mother had previously been deprived of custody.
It is clear to the adoptive mother that Christian B. should no longer be a part of her life.
“As far as I’m concerned, I’ve said goodbye.
“Goodbye,” she told British reporters.
It is questionable whether Christian B. even maintained contact with his adoptive mother.
As
Bild
reports, friends of the family told the paper about previous attacks.
The adoptive mother is said to have even been violent towards Christian B.
“Once she slammed his head on the table,” the paper quoted a former family friend as saying.
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Employees of a home where Maddie suspect Christian B. was housed also turn away
After the adoptive father had an accident, he became a need for care and the adoptive mother put the two children in a home, according to
Bild
.
Former employees of the home are similarly horrified by Christian B.'s development, it is said.
“It's frightening to see what he's become, when you see the pictures of him in court, with those frightening eyes,” the
Sun
quoted one of the employees as saying.
And further: “I am sure that everyone he knew before would be afraid if they saw him today.
We never want him here again.”
The parents of Maddie, who has been missing since 2007, recently addressed the public with an emotional New Year's message.
The two of them have one wish for 2024.
They initially did not comment on the trial in Braunschweig.
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