Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories, and leave out unnecessary details

and honestly, none of this need to know to understand the frustration of why and how this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

Listener discretion is advised.

This week's story is a listener's suggestion.

Thank you to Laura for bringing Rama's story to my attention.

This is a long-term missing person's case from Australia,

and one that is actually up there on the list of unsolved cases I would love to see resolved.

I get asked to cover Madeline McKann's disappearance, like almost daily request to discuss Madeline, and while

every missing child is important and they deserve to have their story told, there are some that

haven't had the attention that they most greatly deserve. The abduction of Madeline McCann has

striking similarities, to the disappearance of

little girl we'll talk about today. Ramas parents are also considered, by the Court of Public

Opinion, to be responsible for her disappearance. November 2005, Lunea, New South Wales, Australia.

A family wake up to their 18-month-old toddler missing from the bed she was sharing with her big sisters.

A cut in the fly screen wire suggesting a stranger abduction.

But is there more than meets the eye?

Could this little girl's parents know more than they are letting on?

And where is Rama, almost 20 years since she vanished on that warm spring evening?

This is Rama's story. Today, Hussein El-Danawi barely had the strength to get through another

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