“Victim Speaks Out: ‘I’m Shattered and Broken’ After Abduction Suspect’s Controversial Exoneration”
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She recalled: “Spend hours in a room with somebody who is absolutely torturing you, and all you can see is their eyes? By god you’d better believe I’ll remember them.
“I made sure I’d remember them. I see them every time I close my eyes.”
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The attack occurred just two weeks before her 21st birthday in 2004, as Behan would call out her attacker on social media in 2023.
She shared: “I am not the lonely, unloved person you are. I am a mother. I am a wife. I am a daughter, sister and friend… I laugh, I run freely without limits. I am free. So who is the real winner?”
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The incident occurred in the same Portuguese town of Praia da Luz where 3-year-old McCann had gone missing just 18 months earlier.
During her stunning testimony in a German court, Behan recalled the assault and accused Brueckner of the attack, and insisted: “I always said my attacker was a German with piercing blue eyes and a voice I would recognize immediately…”
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Brueckner is set to be released from prison in 2025 following his sentence on a separate conviction. However, prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters is still seeking to charge him for McCann’s disappearance despite time not being on their side.
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