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Apr. 2 2023, Printed 5:00 a.m. ET
Newly uncovered medical information present the girl claiming to be Madeleine McCann suffered a mysterious cranium fracture that partially erased her childhood reminiscences of repeated abuse and alleged intercourse trafficking, RadarOnline.com can solely reveal.
The suspicious damage left a then 8-year-old Julie Wendell unable to talk or stroll for greater than a 12 months, her caretaker, non-public investigator Dr. Fia Johansson, mentioned after acquiring practically 500 pages of the younger lady’s medical information from a Wroclaw, Poland, hospital.
The outcomes of the damage had been evident throughout Wendell’s first on-camera interview with RadarOnline.com, the place she revealed flashback reminiscences about her childhood — and unnerving journeys to unique tropical areas accompanied by males she didn’t know.
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Wendell recalled staying at luxurious beachfront inns — properly past the technique of her easy Polish mother and father — and multi-colored buildings, which she claimed resembled the Portuguese resort city of Praia da Luz, the place McCann was kidnapped in 2007 whereas vacationing together with her mother and father.
In the course of the unique interview inside her Los Angeles protected home, Wendell, now 21, retrieved a composition pocket book adorned with butterflies and crops to indicate the place she journalizes the random and generally non-sequential reminiscences of her fragmented childhood.
In a single occasion, she recalled the phobia of paragliding with a person whereas she dressed solely in a T-shirt and underwear and one other time when a person gifted her a blue stomach dancing outfit at a market in a poor tropical village.
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In a single terrifying account, Wendell remembered hiding in a toilet stall with one other younger Polish lady: “We shouted and cried, panicked, we didn’t need to (depart the) bathroom.”
Dr. Johansson mentioned her crew of investigators is at present in Poland attempting to determine how Wendell was injured and who took her to the hospital the place she underwent emergency surgical procedure to cut back mind swelling.
“It exhibits that a few of them or all of them or one among them wished to do away with her,” Dr. Johansson instructed RadarOnline.com referring to Wendell’s childhood caretakers. “Or complicate her life the place she wouldn’t have the ability to stroll or speak or say something. It looks as if they purposely tried to do it.”
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“She doesn’t bear in mind any of it!” she mentioned, including that information confirmed Wendell entered the hospital in a near-comatose state on February 17, 2009.
As RadarOnline.com solely reported, Wendell was 7 years outdated when she was pressured to devour 35 prescription drugs a day after revealing she was being sexually abused by a person who she later discovered bore a placing resemblance to the composite sketch of the suspected wished within the McCann case.
Dr. Johansson revealed Wendell was just lately identified with a uncommon mind illness her docs assume was the results of the alleged drugging.
Wendell grew to become a worldwide sensation by alleging on a now-deactivated Instagram account titled @IAmMadeleineMcCann that she might be the lacking toddler – claiming has freckles on her leg and cheek, in addition to a coloboma in her proper eye in the identical locations as Madeline.
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Dr. Johansson whisked Wendell from Poland to the L.A. protected home after a sequence of current demise threats – believed to be from organized traffickers attempting to silence her – sparked a police investigation by California authorities. Dr. Johansson instructed RadarOnline.com there’s proof Wendell was a sufferer of a intercourse trafficking ring.
Sitting down with RadarOnline.com reporter Samantha Benitz, Wendell started studying among the bone-chilling reminiscences from her pocket book.
“I do not forget that I used to be in a pool room the place there was solely a settee and really outdated T.V. and somebody, I believe my mother, turned on the TV and I may watch a film for youngsters and later I mentioned to her I don’t actually perceive what they mentioned on this film….And she or he talked presently with males within the different room and she or he didn’t care that I didn’t perceive it,” Wendell mentioned.
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Wendell remembers one reminiscence the place she was driving a camel within the desert and staying at two inns – which she thought was odd. Wendell additionally recounted that she and one other younger lady locked themselves in a toilet stall to keep away from an unknown terror.
“I had a pal there, and I believe she was Polish….I do not forget that we speak in different language and generally we couldn’t perceive one another. We closed ourselves in the bathroom in (a) very luxurious place and we shouted and cried, panicked, we didn’t need to (depart the) bathroom. We panicked. And after a while, somebody opened the door and we noticed many individuals on the market.”
Wendell remembered spending the disturbing day paragliding with a stranger whereas carrying solely a T-shirt and underwear.
“I do not forget that I used to be paragliding with (an) older man that I didn’t know, and I didn’t need it, I imply paragliding, and I used to be very scared and stress(ful). And I do not forget that all day, on a regular basis I vomited. I bear in mind I used to be in a T-shirt and panties solely, with none shorts or skirt. I bear in mind it was a really luxurious place. I bear in mind there have been camels on the seaside.”
She recalled consuming octopus and tacos for the primary time with one other stranger who tried to show her methods to every with a spoon and knife.
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“It’s onerous to grasp, the way it’s potential that (my mother and father) …. they’ve the cash (to) go to very luxurious place(s),” Wendell instructed RadarOnline.com. Wendell admitted she’s undecided of her true age, however she recalled one journey the place she was younger and light-weight sufficient to be straddling a canine. She recalled being at a home in a wooded space with strangers. She additionally wrote that she was in a poor village within the tropics full of numerous cattle.
“And I noticed a really poor constructing, and inside this constructing was very poor trying outlets. However it was a really large place, and somebody purchased me (a) blue stomach dance outfit…. It’s like very brief skirt.”