The parents of a former Miss Brazil missing since September have made a plea for information on the whereabouts of their daughter, saying the family "can't take it anymore."
Taiza Thomsen, 24, who inherited the title of Miss Brazil in 2002 after the titleholder was stripped of the crown for being married, last talked to her parents nearly five months ago, saying she was in London. She represented Brazil at the 2003 Miss Universe pageant in Panama.
"If anybody knows where she could be, please contact us," her father, Antonio Thomsen, told Brazil's RBS TV Saturday night.
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He said there was no reason she would have run away, and that she never told them she was planning to go to Europe.
"I don't have any idea about what might have happened," he said. "She has always been a caring daughter."
Thomsen's mother, Angela, said she has not left home in a long time hoping for a phone call with information about her daughter.
"I leave messages on her cellphone but nobody answers," Angela Thomsen said. "If anybody is with her, please contact us, we can't live like this."
The interview with the parents was being aired nationally on Sunday night, at their request. They had not previously talked to the media since reporting their dark-haired, blue-eyed daughter's disappearance on Thursday.
On Saturday, police said they are not discarding the possibility that human trafficking played a role in the disappearance.
The family has said that in some of their conversations before she went missing she left them with the feeling that she was being threatened, authorities said.
Brazilian police have asked for assistance from the Interpol and British authorities to try to confirm whether she was in England.
"We are contacting everybody who might have any information that could help the investigation," police investigator Marcos David Salem said.
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