“There is no reason to challenge the version introduced by the suspect,” Marta Zawada-Dybek from the state prosecutor’s office in Katowice said Monday in a case which has seen comparisons in the media with the disappearance of the British girl Madeleine McCann four years ago.
The suspect, 22 year-old Katarzyna W., maintains that she dropped the baby girl on the floor at her home on 24 January, when Magda hit her head and died.
The mother then took the body and put it near a riverbank.
The case hit the headlines after the mother originally claimed that Magda had been kidnapped by an unknown assailant, triggering a huge manhunt by police in southern Poland.
It was only last Thursday, however, that Katarzyna W. confessed by a high-profile private detective in Poland, Krzysztof Rutkiewicz, that there was in fact no kidnapping and that Magda had died from an accident at home.
Prosecutor Marta Zawada-Dybek says that the final version of events will emerge in the coming days after forensic reports and the taking of more witness statements.
The woman is currently under arrest under involuntary manslaughter charges.
Meanwhile, a letter released by the mother’s lawyer, Marcin Szymonek says that “Katarzyna W. is innocent. The child died from an accident which was not intentional or the result of negligence.”
The lawyer also says that his client has been the victim of a media witch-hunt, where her guilt was taken for granted in many reports.
anonymous
08/02/2012 at 6:01 am
There was a story in the Sun, I believe, where an investigator said that Maddie was taken by a pedophile gang made up of very high ranking rich people who can get away with anything and that he knows for sure they have her, and that he believes she is in America. I never believed those “paid to order” stories but this man does seem believable. I sometimes wonder if there aren’t high ranking rich people into pedophilia on both sides. I guess it’s easy to envy Eddie and Keela, no one is going to sue them. They do their job, go home and munch on a dog bone. They don’t have agendas or give a baloney sandwich to the newspapers. So far, the “gang” is in Belgium, Spain, the Algarve, the Algarve, the Algarve…..before this case came to light, I wonder how many people knew about the Tapas Restaurant, or the NHS, or even heard of the Algarve. Not to mention Eddie and Keela. I love those dogs. They more or less solved this case.
bengalpuss29
02/04/2012 at 3:47 am
Madeleine hasn.t been taken by no Paedaphlle Gang she died in that apartment 5a and the parents covered it up. And yes there are paedaphlle’s in high up places just read the holly greg story and you’ll see just how high up there low lifes really are
Hardlinemarxist
02/04/2012 at 10:02 am
There is no evidence that McCann died in apartment 5a, at least none documented as such.