Madeleine McCann Case Prime Suspect Christian Brueckner Allegedly Linked To Sexual Abuse Of Another Girl

The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann abduction and murder case has been linked to the sexual abuse of a German girl. The incident took place just a month before three-year-old McCann disappeared, local media said.

Christian Brueckner, 43, allegedly performed a sex act before a 10-year-old girl on a Portuguese beach in April 2007, according to reports. Brueckner's links to the case came to light after a 23-year-old woman in Germany reported it to investigators after seeing pictures of the suspect in McCann's case.

The woman said Brueckner was the man who sexually abused her in April 2007. At the time of the alleged sexual abuse, the woman was just 10 years old. She was on a vacation with her family in Salema Beach, Portugal.

On May 3, 2007, McCann went missing after her parents left her and her two-year-old twin siblings alone inside a vacation apartment rental in Portugal while they went out for dinner.

Brueckner, who has a lengthy history of sexual predation, is suspected of being involved in both the crimes against the young girls.

German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters confirmed to Sky News prosecutors have reopened the file pertaining to the abuse the woman sustained when she was 10 years old. The woman said that Brueckner grabbed her on the beach and then performed a sex act on himself before running away.

“The man currently in custody suspected of Madeleine McCann’s abduction is also the suspect in a sex attack on a German girl,” Wolters said.

The case of the German girl on the beach was closed and then re-opened in recent months after her mother reported Brueckner was the culprit, Sky News reported.