Sofia Jasmin Herrera.......Argentina

Just noticed an interesting and huge article* from Buenos Aires, Argentina. The newspaper makes an extensive comparison to the Maddie case and a more recent one, where a 3 year old girl named Sofia has mysteriously disappeared in Argentina. Her parents are being investigated for similar attitudes [incongruences] to the McCanns.

The story of Sofía Yasmín Herrera, 3 years old and 8 months, is similar to the one of Madeleine McCann of four years old who disappeared in Portugal last year. Sofia was with her parents but disappeared around noon last sunday 28th from the “John Goodall camp” (close to Nacional road number3, 60 km from Rio grande, Tierra del Fuego), a small province with just 3 counties, 1 main road and one land access which includes a state line crossing. The Argentinian police works, the Chilean Police, the province, the nation, Interpol, there are searches, rewards…but the girl it’s still missing.





Summary of the article translated

The Police investigate Sofia's Parents (and they are similar to the Maddie Case)

The contradictions in the statements of the mother and the father of Sofia, aroused suspicions. Certain is that in this type of cases the close and intimate circle surrounding the victim must be investigated and there are no clues at the moment. Without delay the similarities to the Maddie Case and the controversial McCanns, grows at the end of the world.

*will update later

Well I doubt if the press will now call this little girl the *Argentinian Maddie* if the parents are being investigated...

Poor little thing...so pretty too

The story of Sofía Yasmín Herrera, 3 years old and 8 months. Sofia was with her parents but disappeared around noon last sunday 28th September 2008 from the “John Goodall camp” (close to Nacional road number3, 60 km from Rio grande, Tierra del Fuego), a small province with just 3 counties, 1 main road and one land access which includes a state line crossing. The Argentinian police works, the Chilean Police, the province, the nation, Interpol, there are searches, rewards…but the girl is still missing.

The Police investigate Sofia's Parents (similar to the Maddie Case)

The contradictions in the statements of the mother and the father of Sofia, aroused suspicions. Certain is that in this type of cases the close and intimate circle surrounding the victim must be investigated and there are no clues at the moment. Without delay the similarities to the Maddie Case and the controversial McCanns, grows at the end of the world.


http://beavolunteer.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/searching-kids-sofia-in-south-argentina/

pm wrote:Just noticed an interesting and huge article* from Buenos Aires, Argentina. The newspaper makes an extensive comparison to the Maddie case and a more recent one, where a 3 year old girl named Sofia has mysteriously disappeared in Argentina. Her parents are being investigated for similar attitudes [incongruences] to the McCanns.

The story of Sofía Yasmín Herrera, 3 years old and 8 months, is similar to the one of Madeleine McCann of four years old who disappeared in Portugal last year. Sofia was with her parents but disappeared around noon last sunday 28th from the “John Goodall camp” (close to Nacional road number3, 60 km from Rio grande, Tierra del Fuego), a small province with just 3 counties, 1 main road and one land access which includes a state line crossing. The Argentinian police works, the Chilean Police, the province, the nation, Interpol, there are searches, rewards…but the girl it’s still missing.





Summary of the article translated

The Police investigate Sofia's Parents (and they are similar to the Maddie Case)

The contradictions in the statements of the mother and the father of Sofia, aroused suspicions. Certain is that in this type of cases the close and intimate circle surrounding the victim must be investigated and there are no clues at the moment. Without delay the similarities to the Maddie Case and the controversial McCanns, grows at the end of the world.

*will update later

Oh no not another one

There's so many babies missing

The story of Sofía Yasmín Herrera, 3 years old and 8 months, is similar to the one of Madeleine McCann of almost four years old who disappeared in Portugal in 2007. Sofia was with her parents and mysteriously disappeared on the 28th of September 2008 from a camping site in the touristic town of Rio Grande, Argentina. The similarities with the 'Maddie Case' and with the controversial 'McCanns', grew on the other side of the world. The contradictions of Sofia's parents statements arouse suspicions since the first day. In cases like this, usually the close circle around the victim has and should be always investigated.

Sofia Herrera’s father was detained as ordered by the judge because he contradicted himself during the reconstruction of his daughter’s disappearance. In addition at the magistrate’s request, the camping’s caretaker where the girl was last seen was also detained. The reconstruction started last Wednesday and ended yesterday. Today, the judge will hear the detainee’s statements.

Nearly a year after the disappearance of the child, Sofia Herrera, the Justice of Tierra del Fuego [lit. Land of Fire] arrested the father of the child. The caretaker of the camping John Godall, the place where the girl was last seen, was also placed in a police cell waiting a forthcoming statement questioning.

The arrests came after the reconstruction of the disappearance, which began Wednesday and ended yesterday. “It was the second reconstruction, with all the players who were there at the last moments the girl was seen; because, during the various statements, several differences were detected between the stories. Thanks to this new diligence, we could detect some serious incongruences in some of the things that were said relative to the time and space, which caused a shift in the case”, confirmed a prosecution source who intervenes on the case to Pagina/12.

At the moment Fabian Herrera is accused of "hindering the investigation" and the caretaker Alberto Urrutia, for the alleged "abduction" of the child.

Sofia was last seen on September 28, 2008. During the investigation psychiatric experts, the Supreme Court of Justice, Buenos Aires police, federal police and even a forensic team of Cordoba [Argentina’s Cordoba ] intervened on the case. Last night, after eleven months without Sofia, the judge Eduardo López ordered the arrest de Herrera, while, at the request of the plaintiff’s attorney (Francisco Ibarra) the same was done with Urrutia. Although the crimes against them are different, both men were arrested after the second reconstruction of the events.

The site of the reconstruction: the campsite John Godall Rio Grande (Tierra del Fuego).
The time: between last Wednesday and yesterday.

The intention: to determine the time (the hours) and the exact place where each player was just before the disappearance.


The players: the child's mother (María Elena Delgado), Fabian Herrera (the father), Paloma and Silvio Giménez (friends of the couple Herrera), their two sons and the caretaker Urrutia; these were all people who were camping at the time of Sofia's disappearance.

After finishing the first stage of the judicial reconstruction and because of the alleged inconsistencies between the statements of Herrera and his friend Giménez, on Wednesday, Judge Lopez made a confrontation between the two. “Since the beginning of the case, Delgado, Paloma and Herrera had different contradictions in their statements. Silvio Giménez was the only one who in nine witness’s statements has always said the same thing”, told this newspaper a source of investigation.

During the confrontation, Giménez said the same that he had reported in September 2008, while Sofia's dad “did not remember well all the facts because I was very nervous”, assured to Pagina/12 his wife .

According to a preliminary report of the (second) reconstruction, Herrera kept repeatedly “forgetting” about the day when his daughter disappeared. For example, at the moment of establishing with his body the distance that separated him from Sofia, in the last time he saw her, the man replied that “it was not more than 20 meters”. However, measurements taken at the camping site yesterday by the Buenos Aires police officers determined that, between the place Herrera said he was and the space where his daughter supposedly was there were more than 180 meters. Between the testimony and the diligences, there was almost two “cuadras” [measure – one cuadra= 80 meters by 80 meters] of difference.

A few days ago, psychologists from the Supreme Court of Justice determined that “the report of one of Giménez’s children – the six-year-old boy who said that he saw Sofia as she climbed into a car – is not a lie, but contains several inconsistencies, fissures, and basically is not accurate”, confirmed the prosecutor source. Therefore, according to the lawyer, from “the statements that were taken today (yesterday) it could determine that the last place where the little girl was seen, was very close to the house of Urrutia”, the camping’s caretaker.

The man lived in a kind of small house that is located in the building that has been under concession by the municipality to a Río Grande taxi cooperative, and he is in charge of the place’s maintenance and security. The employee’s case is different from that of Herrera, because to the investigators, Urrutia is directly related to Sofia’s disappearance.

According to the data that has been established, the detention order was issued right after the psychiatric evaluations and the measures that were taken over these days, that led lawyer Ibarra to request the judge to detain Urrutia, as well as to close the camping where the events took place. In previous statements, Urrutia had said that “he had been in the province for a year only”, that the day in question “there were no other families or people at the camping” and that he didn’t “see any suspicious vehicles in the area”, and neither did he see Sofia.

Subnotes

The Madeleine Case

Madeleine McCann, who had three years, disappeared on May 3, 2007, while on vacation with her parents and siblings in Praia de Luz, Portugal. The case was investigated by the British and Portuguese police, and remains unresolved. The Investigators from Portugal consider to today the girl's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann (doctors), as suspects.


A member of the Portuguese Judiciary Police said that the parents "continue a strategy of disseminating new information almost daily through the media," which "aims to harm the investigation and take it in the wrong paths."

The parents, meanwhile, hold a public campaign and hired detectives to find the girl. A couple of weeks ago, at a press conference they presented the sketch of a a woman who they consider suspicious.

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-130369-2009-08-21.html



http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/08/argentinean-mccanns-sofia-herreras.html

Past news one this child is on the link:

https://missingmadeleine.forumotion.net/missing-in-misc-countries-f48/missing-in-argentina-t1739.htm?highlight=sofia+hererra

The arrests came after the reconstruction of the disappearance, which began Wednesday and ended yesterday. “It was the second reconstruction, with all the players who were there at the last moments the girl was seen; because, during the various statements, several differences were detected between the stories.



Now we know why the Macs didnt want to do the reconstruction for the police. Kates part was completely shelved in their own recon as it couldnt have happened the way any of them said it did. What does that tell you?

If Murats version of events for that night hadnt added up the pro's would still be acusing him.

Jacqui67 wrote:The arrests came after the reconstruction of the disappearance, which began Wednesday and ended yesterday. “It was the second reconstruction, with all the players who were there at the last moments the girl was seen; because, during the various statements, several differences were detected between the stories.



Now we know why the Macs didnt want to do the reconstruction for the police. Kates part was completely shelved in their own recon as it couldnt have happened the way any of them said it did. What does that tell you?

If Murats version of events for that night hadnt added up the pro's would still be acusing him.

Thats a good point about Murat. They are furiously fast to blame any paedo who has ever been to Portugal but they wont even mention the name David Payne.

David Payne has not been in the news at all. Wonder why he has not sued re the remarks made about him. They were serious remarks too, very.

Is it possible that this was a copy-cat crime ?

lynn wrote:David Payne has not been in the news at all. Wonder why he has not sued re the remarks made about him. They were serious remarks
too, very.

They didn't just involve just DP either did they.

I see the new influx of guests and wander's are ignoring this one, previous form, tells a lot.

Laffin Assasin wrote:I see the new influx of guests and wander's are ignoring this one, previous form, tells a lot.

I noticed that too Laffin....so thats why I'm moved it to Sofias thread now....I suppose she isnt worth even a glance!

Update.

There is no more news on this case.