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If it was neglect, do you not think the police might have arrested them for that? What, you think they're biding their time?
Or perhaps you're just armchair lawyers with an easy axe to grind...
How can you agree that they are soley at fault for her death? Unless you believe they killed her then someone else at least has some responsibility...
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Where did i say that??
If that poor kid(s) where left alone is this county social would have taken all the kids into care thats why i think they neglected there kids sorry I should have read the whole post and made my veiws clear from the start
For a few hours one evening? When they were at a restaurant a hundred yards away? No, "county social" would not have taken anyone into care.
I think it's an easy mistake to make (leaving their kids) but that doesn't mean it was not neglect. However I think the fact that she dissappeared is punishment enough for this.
However I do think the publicity has gone well over the top. The chances of finding her alive now are just about non-existant. Think about it, with all the publicity, if you were kidnapping a child to 'sell on' and then her face was all over the papers for a year, you'd save yourself the trouble of keeping her, harsh though it may sound.
I think that they should donate the money to the missing person's fund or something similar and move on, rather than chasing some non-existant hope that's obviously pulling their lives apart
However I do think the publicity has gone well over the top. The chances of finding her alive now are just about non-existant. Think about it, with all the publicity, if you were kidnapping a child to 'sell on' and then her face was all over the papers for a year, you'd save yourself the trouble of keeping her, harsh though it may sound.
I think that they should donate the money to the missing person's fund or something similar and move on, rather than chasing some non-existant hope that's obviously pulling their lives apart
Do you actually live in the real world?
What the **** are you jibber-jabbering about? No-one would have been taken into care.
it wasnt long ago a british teenager went missing on a beach in another country.
the mother was slammed by the press for neglect ,
i dont understand why the press have steared around the fact that this is the same situation and its not even a topical subject or there being punished for it
the mother was slammed by the press for neglect ,
i dont understand why the press have steared around the fact that this is the same situation and its not even a topical subject or there being punished for it
Perhaps because leaving children in a hotel room for 30mins between checks is deemed acceptable in the child care industry as well???
Most child care companies offer a baby listening service that does exactly what the McCanns apparently did themselves, listen outside the room for noise every 30mins or so.
I've previously worked for one of the largest providers, Esprit, as a child carer. It's known as baby listening and is aviliable for all children over 3months of age. There would basically be a couple of us on duty and then every 30mins we'd run around the hotel checking listening at the doors of whoever had signed into the service, if the children were up and we couldn;t get them back to sleep we gave the parents a call at whatever pub/restaurant they were at.
So how exactly do you expect the McCanns to be charged for looking after their own children in exactly the same way that many thousands of families pay other people to do for their own children???
Just because "thousands" do it, doesn't make it right, or acceptable. Any responsible parent wouldn't employ a "listening" service to "listen" to their children to see if their okay.
Every year many thousands of parents will go on a holiday with a big child care orientated company, almost all of them will use the baby listening service. With so many people choosing this as a safe option (I doubt people would pick it if they felt it were unsafe) can it really be described as irresponsible? If it were we'd be hearing far more stories in the news.
Another parallel that makes the whole backlash seem odd to me is that children are obviously far more likely to be killed/seriously injured when being driven somewhere then they are being left alone in a room. Yet you don't see a backlash against parents whos child is unfortunately killed in a car accident. But why not? I'm reasonable sure that cars must be one of the largest killers of children so why would any responsible parent take such a risk with their childs life?
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Apples and oranges.
That mother left her 15 year old daughter in one country while she buggered off to another.
Some of you need to do a bit of Child Protection and look up the word 'neglect'.
The McAnns weren't neglectful and no court would accuse them of it.
What they did was naive and they've got to live with it.
Acceptable or not, it was obviously a ******* stupid idea in this case, wasn't it? Because they've just lost their daughter.
And they weren't checking every 30 minutes; they admitted it was more like every hour or so.
Childminding facilities were available, but the McCanns chose not to use them. Moronic, to say the least.
such as....why are they in the spotlight when 1000's of children go missing every year and why arnt they mentioned ?
the mc cann's need to be quiet and get out of the spotlight,they should be greatfull they have other children....what about family's who lose there only child ?
i dont really want to go on about this case as it is really getting on my nerve's now and im sick of seeing them everywhere i turn on the new's and tv.
Oh how ghastly for you...