Wow...I'm impressed!
I don't think I've ever been on a forum which was frequented by so many saints, perfect parents, behavioural psychologists, legal experts and amateur sleuths.
You're embarrassing yourself now.
Madeleine McCann's parents
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You're embarrassing yourself now.
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If it was your child would you two give up so easily?
Yes they made a massive mistake and they will have to mentally pay for the rest of their lives but their baby is still 'missing' and you can only get closure when you know where the body is.
Whilst I most certainly do not agree with the people that say 'just get over it' or 'time to move on', I do agree with the people that say there is something not quite right about the parents. Whether that is because of the heart-breaking trauma or simply the fact that they aren't 'quite right', I don't know. I don't think you can be 'right' to leave your children alone in a foreign country like they did - if that is indeed what happened.
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So the government is now going to waste money on searching for her again? What about all the other missing children that don't make it into the media because the story isn't "glamorous" enough.
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I would never leave my children for a chance of anything like that happening.
If one of my children vanished I would spend every possible moment looking for the child, no time to write books, nothing but searching and publicising the search, the only other thing worthwhile besides the search would be the other children.
I dont know how the parents can live with themselves, how will they explain the whole thing to the other children when they get to the age where they start to question their parents integrity and why they were all left alone that night.
If one of my children vanished I would spend every possible moment looking for the child, no time to write books, nothing but searching and publicising the search, the only other thing worthwhile besides the search would be the other children.
I dont know how the parents can live with themselves, how will they explain the whole thing to the other children when they get to the age where they start to question their parents integrity and why they were all left alone that night.
I don't think it's of paramount concern, they'll just slap an injunction on their remaining children
I think if they want to raise money through whatever methods to try to find their child I can't blame them and don't have any problem with that.
I do not think that public funds should be spent on this though, unless and significant new leads appear. The money would be better spent investigating fresh cases.
I do not think that public funds should be spent on this though, unless and significant new leads appear. The money would be better spent investigating fresh cases.
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I don't think it's of paramount concern, they'll just slap an injunction on their remaining children
Could be right,
maybe they cut the childrens inheritance if they get 'uperty' about their big sisters fate or try to talk publicly about things without the parents copy approval.
In a world of what-if's that surrounds those parents you can never know.
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As a new father, I cannot believe how anyone with half a brain could even entertain leaving their children unattended while they went out on the drink!
I believe they accidentally killed her and covered it up with the kidnap story.
I believe they accidentally killed her and covered it up with the kidnap story.
That's a ridiculous thing to say unless you suggest we carry out a "who is to blame" assessment before any public services will do anything for anyone.
"Hello - this is the police"
"I'd like to report I've been raped"
"Hmm, were you wearing a short skirt or walking down a dark road"
"err... yes"
"Sorry, we can't help you then, it happened due to your own negligence".
That's a ridiculous thing to say unless you suggest we carry out a "who is to blame" assessment before any public services will do anything for anyone.
"Hello - this is the police"
"I'd like to report I've been raped"
"Hmm, were you wearing a short skirt or walking down a dark road"
"err... yes"
"Sorry, we can't help you then, it happened due to your own negligence".
That's a ridiculous comparison. Wearing a short skirt is not negligence; leaving your children unattended in a room whilst you go off and drink with your friends, in another country, is. By all means carry on the investigation, but dedicating a larger amount of public money to trying to find this child than others is just wrong.
That's a fair point. If they care so much why are they not living over there trying to spend every day they can out and about looking for her?
LOL at comparing leaving your children unattended to wearing a short skirt! Are you being serious???
So because they were negligent the little girl deserves to stay lost? "Hey it was your own fault so we are not gonna bother finding your lost daughter"
tbh I would rather my tax money went on this than many of the other things it pays for.
Whilst I agree that in an ideal world all missing children should have this level of attention doesn't his thread, the press and government attention show that the McCanns are doing exactly the right thing to keep the authorities and public aware of and looking for their missing daughter, even if it does mean appearing on page 3 and doing a deal with the devil.?
Still, as Von said, got to love GD experts who know more about the case than the Private investigators, massed world press (who let's face it would have a field day if there was any chance the McCanns "dun it") family, police forces of two nations and governments all of who have first hand information.
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Of course it's a ridiculous comparison, are you going to be the arbiter of what is negligent and what's not deciding when the public services will help and when they will say "it's your own fault" however?
What next, no police response to a burglary if you left a window open?
Are you having a go at the McCanns or the media? Just because The Sun or some other garbage newspaper decided to pick up on this and put it on the front page doesn't mean you should use it to attack them. Surely as part of a book on what happened they'd have to talk about the emotional impact this had on their lives?
There can't be a single shred of evidence that they killed her (or sold her - where do you people come up with this ***?), or they'd still be suspects, but most people seem pretty happy to convict them anyway.
Can you really blame them for wanting to keep this in the media/publics attention when trying to get the UK police to help more?
The problem I have with the McCann's is that it's all a bit weird in how they looked after their children and what they did next if the following reports are true.
1. They leave young children alone for hours every night of the holiday in a foreign country while going out drinking and refuse to pay for £10 babysitter on the grounds they don't want to leave their kids with a stranger yet it's the same babysitter they are happy to leave their kids for 5.5 hours with every day during the holiday.
2. Within 2 hours of finding Maddie "missing" from her room, they had already reported her as abducted, contacted every relative in England to tell them she has been abducted, had made contact with the British Embassy and met a representative, and produced and printed hundreds of posters with Maddie's picture on to be handed out, posted up in the area. Wouldn't normal parents have spent those first two hours looking for their missing child?
3. The McCann's didn't join in the search in the local area despite the police and 100's of locals been out searching.
4. Within 24 hours they had hired a team of top lawyers and flown them out from England. Wouldn't you still be looking for your missing child?
I could go on and on. There is something majorly fishy in what happened and how they behave IMO.
1. They leave young children alone for hours every night of the holiday in a foreign country while going out drinking and refuse to pay for £10 babysitter on the grounds they don't want to leave their kids with a stranger yet it's the same babysitter they are happy to leave their kids for 5.5 hours with every day during the holiday.
2. Within 2 hours of finding Maddie "missing" from her room, they had already reported her as abducted, contacted every relative in England to tell them she has been abducted, had made contact with the British Embassy and met a representative, and produced and printed hundreds of posters with Maddie's picture on to be handed out, posted up in the area. Wouldn't normal parents have spent those first two hours looking for their missing child?
3. The McCann's didn't join in the search in the local area despite the police and 100's of locals been out searching.
4. Within 24 hours they had hired a team of top lawyers and flown them out from England. Wouldn't you still be looking for your missing child?
I could go on and on. There is something majorly fishy in what happened and how they behave IMO.