Madeleine McCann's parents

Abraham said:
I don't assume they were involved at all, I just think they're money grabbing to the extreme in light of it.
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If I was in the same boat and wanted funds to help search for my missing daughter, then I too would be fund raising at every opportunity and to be perfectly honest, if people wanted to look at it cynically, then so be it as my main concern would be finding my missing daughter!

I suspecty any parent would do the same!
 
lttlejoe said:
If I was in the same boat and wanted funds to help search for my missing daughter, then I too would be fund raising at every opportunity and to be perfectly honest, if people wanted to look at it cynically, then so be it as my main concern would be finding my missing daughter!

I suspecty any parent would do the same!
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I doubt it, not to the extent they are.
 
lttlejoe said:
I keep hearing all about these 100's and 1000's of abducted/missing children.

How many British children of a similar age to Maddie, excluding the similarly high profile case of abducted Ben Needham can you actually name that have gone missing under similar circumstances?

There are lots of cases where one parent has abducted their own kids and taken them off to foreign lands but, most missing children in this country don't disappear under such mysterious circumstances.
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Perhaps if it wasn't for the McCann case, you might know more about the other missing cases?

Maybe?
 
lttlejoe said:
I keep hearing all about these 100's and 1000's of abducted/missing children.

How many British children of a similar age to Maddie, excluding the similarly high profile case of abducted Ben Needham can you actually name that have gone missing under similar circumstances?

There are lots of cases where one parent has abducted their own kids and taken them off to foreign lands but, most missing children in this country don't disappear under such mysterious circumstances.
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Probably because missing children are normally found quite soon, those are not are notmally found dead some time after their abduction.

The truth is that the McCann case was very high profile due to the suspicious circumstances and the overt neglect shown to their children by two supposed pillars of the community.

Unfortunately missing children alone are not newsworthy to the international and national media.
 
lttlejoe said:
I keep hearing all about these 100's and 1000's of abducted/missing children.

How many British children of a similar age to Maddie, excluding the similarly high profile case of abducted Ben Needham can you actually name that have gone missing under similar circumstances?

There are lots of cases where one parent has abducted their own kids and taken them off to foreign lands but, most missing children in this country don't disappear under such mysterious circumstances.
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Sarah Payne, Jessica Chapman, Holly Wells, Vicky Hamilton, Dinah McNicol, Lucy Partington.

I named them cause they all were found dead. The stats are that approx 150,000 under 16's go missing in the uk every year. 95% are found/turn up quickly so that leaves approx 7,500 still not found/accounted for.

ANd it does appear who you are counts (although the age of the child is a factor too)

For example:

14-year-old Hannah Williams disappeared in south-east London in 2001, the media scarcely noticed: she was working-class, and her mother was a single parent. She didn't have the right kind of profile, and her death only made it into the "in brief" columns of newspapers.

Robert Brody went missing aged 8 in 2006.

Okay, I can't any stats at the moment for really young children.
 
Castiel said:
Probably because missing children are normally found quite soon, those are not are notmally found dead some time after their abduction.

The truth is that the McCann case was very high profile due to the suspicious circumstances and the overt neglect shown to their children by two supposed pillars of the community.

Unfortunately missing children alone are not newsworthy to the international and national media.
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Well if they are found quite quickly, then these missing children are no longer missing and will soon be forgotten.
My question was how many children of Maddie's age in similar circumstances actually go missing?
I keep hearing all about the missing 1000's of children but I can find very, very few!

Now if we are talking about kids as young as 11 or early teens who run away from home and disappear, then yes, I suspect there are many thousands who will disappear over the years and it's true that their parents don't receive the same media coverage as the McCanns.
From my perspective, as long as there is no body found to confirm Maddie's death then it's fair to assume that Maddie may still be alive and a good enough reason to continue the search.
 
Greebo said:
Sarah Payne, Jessica Chapman, Holly Wells, Vicky Hamilton, Dinah McNicol, Lucy Partington.

I named them cause they all were found dead. The stats are that approx 150,000 under 16's go missing in the uk every year. 95% are found/turn up quickly so that leaves approx 7,500 still not found/accounted for.

ANd it does appear who you are counts (although the age of the child is a factor too)

For example:

14-year-old Hannah Williams disappeared in south-east London in 2001, the media scarcely noticed: she was working-class, and her mother was a single parent. She didn't have the right kind of profile, and her death only made it into the "in brief" columns of newspapers.

Robert Brody went missing aged 8 in 2006.

Okay, I can't any stats at the moment for really young children.
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I don't think it's only to do with social class with regard to how it's reported, I would say it was more to do with age and that is why Maddie captured the public's attention so much! Oh and not forgetting the suspicions around her disappearance.
That is probably why you can't find the figure/stats.

The only similar case I can recall of such a young child going missing and not being found either alive or dead over the past 20 years was that of Ben Needham who disappeared under VERY similar circumstances while on holiday and his mother still hasn't given up hope of finding him alive.
 
Who is footing this bill then?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17828015

His team of 28 detectives and seven civilian support staff are working their way through an estimated 40,000 pieces of information, including reports and documents from UK police, Portuguese police and private detectives hired by the McCanns.

He said one major advantage for Operation Grange is that for the first time it has access to all of the available evidence all in one place.

"At no time before have those three elements been drawn together in one place. And so what we've done over the past number of months is to bring to one place all those pieces of the jigsaw."

DCI Redwood believes the case could be solved by reappraising the documentary evidence.

"Clearly within that material, the answer could lie," he said.
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£2m of tax money spent looking for one kid over 5 years who may or may not still be alive ..... Ok sure the parents lost their kid, but this is getting insane.
 
I was somewhat amazed to hera that 35 people are in the team looking for Maddy in the UK.
I assume that team has other jobs to be getting on with, and isn't just a unit specifically set up to find a missing child who went missing abroad?
Do hope the that £2M bill is for overall running costs of a missing kids team, not a find maddy by the British taxpayer team.
 
Wasn't there a fund set up for maddie much like the one for this recent runner that died in the London marathon raising £170k in less than 24 hours, anyways £2m is small change compared to bank bailouts, nhs budgets etc. hell the government borrowed £100 + Billion in the last financial year.
 
Slumberbox said:
Wasn't there a fund set up for maddie much like the one for this recent runner that died in the London marathon raising £170k in less than 24 hours, anyways £2m is small change compared to bank bailouts, nhs budgets etc. hell the government borrowed £100 + Billion in the last financial year.
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it's massive money though on a lost cause compared to the thousands of other lost child cases that might still have a hope in hell.
 
Tefal said:
it's massive money though on a lost cause compared to the thousands of other lost child cases that might still have a hope in hell.
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Yes but most of the other children don't have vocal middle class parents and are already part of the social care system and no-one really gives a stuff then. They were already unwanted by the people that should have cared. Why this family have not been challenged for child abuse I really don't know. yes, it was unfortunate what happened but if you leave children of that age and you live on a council estate you have social services take a real good look at your ability to be a parent.
 
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