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Kate McCann reveals she could forgive Madeleine's abductor

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As Kate McCann prepares to mark Madeleine's tenth birthday, she has spoken about forgiving her daughter's abductor. The 45-year-old from Rothley, near Loughborough, will acknowledge the day with presents and a party next month - as she does every year. "There is a part of me that has to do it," she said. Madeleine, who was taken from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007, would be celebrating her tenth birthday with her family on May 12. Instead, there are six years' worth of gifts waiting for her at home. Mum Kate, who has devoted her life to finding her daughter, said she will never give up the search for Madeleine, and revealed she has even contemplated forgiving whoever abducted her little girl. She made the comments in an interview in the Telegraph earlier this week. "I think I could probably forgive Madeleine's abductor whatever the circumstances," she told the Telegraph. "I don't know whether it's simply because I'm stronger or because there's no benefit in not forgiving someone. I can't change anything and I don't want to be eaten up by hatred and bitterness. "And maybe there is an element of pity – what kind of person could do something like this? Of course, forgiveness will always be easier if there is remorse." Marking Madeleine's birthday is just one of the ways Kate and the family have kept the youngster's existence alive at home. There are photographs everywhere, and unopened birthday and Christmas presents. The toddler's room is also just as she left it on the day the family left for Portugal. "That was the room she left and it would be familiar to her," said Kate. "It would be hard to dismantle it." Speaking to the Telegraph, Kate also described the first time she dared to leave Sean and Amelie, Maddy's siblings, alone in the back seat of her car while she paid for fuel. The normal act was something which took a great deal of courage, she admitted. She said: "It was the first time in six years that I have been able to do that. "I was very conscious of what I was doing. I left them behind for a few moments. All the time they were in view. "They used to protest when I took them inside with me to pay, though they knew it was, as Sean once said, 'because someone might take me'." The McCanns will continue the search for their daughter until they either find her, or find conclusive evidence that their little girl is no longer alive. Kate said: "As there is nothing to suggest that Madeleine is not alive we have to keep looking for her. "We all know there are cases of missing children, presumed dead, who have been found alive years, sometimes decades, later."

Kate McCann reveals she could forgive Madeleine's abductor


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