Now this is something that never happened before.British police plan to post pictures of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann in virtual world Second Life, a UK-based child protection law enforcement organization says.The virtual posters of the four-year-old, who vanished in Portugal nearly six weeks ago, will appear in prominent locations in the online world.Officers are in talks with Internet-based Second Life, Britain's Press Association reported Tuesday.Second Life is a virtual world, sometimes described as a game, in which people control "avatars" to meet people, fool around and even run businesses.
Traditional posters appealing for information from the Portuguese resort where Madeleine disappeared have been translated into several languages.
Tourists who stayed at the Portuguese resort from where she was abducted have been urged in the past three weeks to hand over any holiday photographs which might contain clues to her kidnapper.
British detectives have been using advanced facial recognition software to scan the pictures and pass on any useful information to Portuguese police. 1,000 images have been uploaded by British and some German holiday makers who visited the resort in the two weeks before Madeleine's disappearance.
Madeleine was snatched from her family's holiday apartment in southern Portugal on May 3 while her parents, Gerry and Kate, ate at a restaurant only 100 meters away.