Maddie McCann’s mom claims predator used resto guest book to target tot

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The mom of missing toddler Maddie McCann believes the predator who snatched the tot used a restaurant guest book to target the child.

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Maddie vanished while on holidays with her family in Portugal in 2007.

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Her disappearance remains one of the world’s great mysteries and has triggered a world-wide manhunt and avalanche of theories.

But Kate McCann believes it was an open guest book where the adults and their friends ate every night that twigged the sinister kidnapper. At the time of the kidnapping, the McCanns and their friends sat at the same table with a clear view of their rooms at the Ocean Club restaurant.

Twelve years in a Netflix documentary on the case, it was discovered a note in the guest book that said the parents were leaving the children alone.

Author Robbyn Swan, who co-wrote Looking for Madeleine in 2014, said Kate would never recover from what she saw in the reservation book, calling the notation “the stuff of nightmares.”

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After Madeleine disappeared, Kate discovered the notation in the reservation book.

To anyone who saw the note, it would have been clear the children were alone and unsupervised in the rooms.

“To my horror, I saw that, no doubt in all innocence and simply to explain why she was bending the rules a bit, the receptionist had added the reason for our request: we wanted to eat close to our apartments as we were leaving our young children alone there and checking on them intermittently,” Kate wrote in 2011.

“We now bitterly regret it and will do so until the end of our days.”

During the probe, the local police came under heavy fire and to this day, the McCanns blame sloppy police work for Maddie not being found.

They lost a court battle with Portuguese cop, Goncalo Amaral, who they believe botched the initial search for Maddie. And he frequently pointed the finger at the couple as the responsible parties.

He had suggested the little girl died accidentally and her parents tried to cover it up.

“We took action for one and only one reason: Mr. Amaral’s unfounded claims were having a detrimental impact on the search for Madeleine,” they wrote last fall on their website.

“If the public believed that we were involved in her disappearance, then people would not be alert for possible clues and may not report relevant information to the relevant law enforcement agencies.”

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