Madeleine McCann's parents

oldbag said:
So is she dead? Or in some sicko's cellar? I would think the former is less worse.
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Probably dead , probably they did it or if not the kidnapper suerly would have due to the case getting so hot ... **** they are in the news like every year and havent once said that they screwed up hard ; its always everyone elses fault.
 
Ascendancy said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24411075

That time of year again it seems :o
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Her parents said: "We are greatly encouraged by new information coming to light with pieces of the jigsaw now fitting together.

"We're really hopeful the forthcoming Crimewatch appeal will bring further new evidence which will take us a step closer to finding Madeleine and to bringing those responsible for her abduction to justice."
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Even if they find those responsible for her abduction and (hopefully not) subsequent murder...all the time that the McCann's themselves do not admit their own responsibility in this, then justice will only ever be partially done.

The first people who let down that child were her own parents....
 
Indeed ^ it's pretty odd how the negligence was pretty much ignored by the media, I wonder how lower working class parents/people on benefits would have been treated by the media had they repeated the exact same actions.

Children as young as those left could have just as easily died in a fire, choked to death or a hundred other things - the fact it was abduction/murder (pending on if you believe the story they give) is immaterial in regards to the gross negligence displayed by the parents.
 
I don't think the negligence was ignored at all. It was a fairly big thing. But given their child had been kidnapped it's not something that needed to be lingered on. They made a very very stupid mistake that has ruined their lives, as well as had huge impact on their extended family.

It's easy to target them as you see and hear from them all the time. The person who actually took the girl is faceless - and some are convinved doesn't exist, so they are the natural ones for people to blame.
 
Funnily enough this reminded me of a conversation I had with my dad at the time she went missing. He raised the point of what the media/police would have done had this been a single teenage mum who took her child on holiday with her to say Tenerife and had gone out clubbing/drinking. Bet the response would have been very different.
 
feedtheram said:
I don't think the negligence was ignored at all. It was a fairly big thing. But given their child had been kidnapped it's not something that needed to be lingered on. They made a very very stupid mistake that has ruined their lives, as well as had huge impact on their extended family.

It's easy to target them as you see and hear from them all the time. The person who actually took the girl is faceless - and some are convinved doesn't exist, so they are the natural ones for people to blame.
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Just because a greater wrong was committed as a consequence doesn't absolve them of their own responsibility....they are blamed because they are partially at fault, not because they are an easy target.

People are correct in asking why they faced no investigation from social services, when others in similar circumstances almost would certainly have.
 
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The people repeating them selves to prove their point is just silly.

I still hope she is found safe and well.
 
Dis86 said:
Funnily enough this reminded me of a conversation I had with my dad at the time she went missing. He raised the point of what the media/police would have done had this been a single teenage mum who took her child on holiday with her to say Tenerife and had gone out clubbing/drinking. Bet the response would have been very different.
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If the single mum was at a Tapas bar 100m away with a group of friends who were checking on her every 15-30 minutes then i'd imagine the reaction would be the same. If anything she'd get an easier ride as she is young and naive.

I think if anything the McCanns get a rough ride because they are both clearly well educated wealthy people who should have known better.
 
feedtheram said:
I think if anything the McCanns get a rough ride because they are both clearly well educated wealthy people who should have known better.
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The Social Services didn't give the McCann's any kind of ride..rough or otherwise...the simple fact is they were negligent and in any normal situation they would have been at the very least investigated. You simply do not leave a 4 year old in charge of two 18month old babies while you are down the pub....the awful consequences aside. Madeline's Parents had a clear duty of care that they wilfully neglected, given their profession and education, this could be construed quite easily as endangering the welfare of their children.

You say it yourself...they should have known better, not only are they educated (I'm not sure they were wealthy exactly) but they were both health professionals who should have realised the risks of leaving such a young child in charge of two babies in a foreign environment. If anything they should be held to a higher standard than the young single mother as they have no such naivety as mitigation to fall back on.

They got let off easy, and the support they get is disproportionate compared to what the thousands of Parents of other missing and abducted children each year receive.
 
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I wonder what the McCann's have on the government to stop them doing the right thing.

If it was anyone else they would still be in prison now.

What I don't get though is why is MM so special - there are thousands of similar cases every year that maybe get a little story on page 5+ one day and that's it.
 
Castiel said:
They got let off easy, and the support they get is disproportionate compared to what the thousands of Parents of other missing and abducted children each year receive.
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The comment i responded to was that their negligence was ignored by the media, which i don't think was ever the case. They've been accused of murdering their own child and vilified in front of the world. Some people are convinced they killed her and covered it up, and several news reports suggested they had done so.

I completely agree about the amount of support they have recieved being disproportionate and by the sounds of things they should have been investigated by social services.
 
The Portugese police charged them with abduction and then it was mysteriously cleared - any countries Police don't simply make mistakes.

They are guilty, they know it, the HM Prison service knows it, society knows it. But they must have something on someone - because here they are, not in prison - still working and milking the hell out of the situation. They must be millionaires by now!

But the biggest question of all is this: was Madeleine really abducted, as the parents claim, and as the British media seem to believe? We don’t think so, and in this booklet we lay out 60 different reasons for doubting their claim. A key reason for writing our booklet is the fact that the British media have consistently failed to offer us either full information about the case or any serious analysis of what might really have happened. The Madeleine Foundation’s view on what really happened to Madeleine is precisely the same as the view held by the senior Portuguese detective who initially led the complex investigation, Mr Goncalo Amaral. He was removed from the investigation on 3rd October 2007, due to intense British government pressure
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http://www.cwporter.com/mccann.htm
 
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