Another heartbreaking case.
@MagnoliaMountain Terrific serious question
imo. We know how tough it is for adults to process and work through trauma...how in heck can an adolescent do this successfully and come out ever feeling that s/he is normal or able to trust others?
Somehow this case had caught my attention and these WS posts came up. Poor kid, and poor family! Looking on the 'Net I'm seeing many, many rumors Manuel died not long after his disappearance in Berlin possibly, and infinitely sadly, from torture during a child *advertiser censored* snuff film. It gets worse -- allegedly, a minister in the Belgian government either may have been in the film or present at the filming. Other less common speculations: Manuel was a victim of now-convicted-and-imprisoned German serial child predator / killer Martin N.,
der schwarze Mann, "The Figure in Black" (my translation -- apologies!); or that he died while being abused by a Church official.
The scenario that seems to show up most often is that the poor lad was abducted out of his country by human traffickers and put to work "off the menu" in an otherwise-legal male brothel in Amsterdam. Supposedly his mother positively ID'd him as the boy in a kid-*advertiser censored* flick she was asked to screen for that reason. The rumors seem to run pretty strongly that fairly close to this time, he was tortured to death in the snuff film (apparently not the one his mom saw?). One site posts pics it says are the clothes Manuel was wearing when his body was found but the site gives no info about his body and its condition, how he was ID'd, or where he is buried.
Sheesh. The things we're capable of...
May God bless Manuel and his family, grant them peace+
Info pulled from:
welt.de/print-welt/article623568/Die-Gier-nach-kleinen-Kindern-kennt-keine-Grenzen-mehr.html
tagesspiegel.de/berlin/seit-18-jahren-vermisst-manuel-schadwald-verschwand-auf-dem-weg-ins-fez/5772690.html
stern.de/panorama/angst-vor-dem-schwarzen-mann-so-berichtete-der-stern-ueber-den-fall-dennis-k-704016.html
theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/27/childprotection.uk
http://irv.li/de/content/antichrist-ist-unter-uns
http://news.google.com/newspapers?n..._xOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3hQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6820,4751567
maudoortwijn.wordpress.com/stories-of-injustice/#Schadwald
thetreeoflibertymovement.blogspot.com/2012/10/breaking-october-5-2012-pedophile-joris.html
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-boy-called-manuel.html
http://brynalynvictims.blogspot.com/2013/06/lothar-glandorf.html