Madeline McCann

[@mwooly63]

Surely leaving your child alone, is child neglect?

Pretty sure there is no minimum age at which a child can be left unattended ( popular myth has it at 14 )


http://www.nspcc.org.uk/help-and-advice/for-parents/keeping-your-child-safe/being-home-alone/home-alone_wda96754.html

What the law says

The law does not set a minimum age at which children can be left alone. However, it is an offence to leave a child alone when doing so puts him or her at risk.

I guess the at risk part is open to interpretation

[Samdy Gray]

I'd disagree. They have showed absolutely no emotion whatsoever. How can anyone sit through so many media interviews and still hold it together? Not even chocking up or anything.

You mean like Mick Philpott did, when he'd knowingly torched his own house with six of his children asleep inside?

[Red Frog]

No ones perfect, but they have showed no emotion whatsoever. I know grief affects people in different ways but they haven't once shed a tear.

Also the mums nose looks rather dashing....

And the holier-than-thou shit continues.

[Nomoreheroes]

Maybe some of your should try to look at this from a different angle?

A poor, defenceless little girl was abducted 7 years ago. She is most likely dead, but let's hope that she isn't.

If she isn't dead lets hope that she hasn't had to endure anything too terrible and that she can be found soon and the perpetrators brought to justice.

If she is dead, lets hope she didn't suffer too much and that the perpetrators are brought to justice so they can't do it to anyone else.  

I fear that we will never know what happened and that she will not be found. More importantly, the perpetrators will never be caught and may indeed make others suffer too.

[DMR]

Last night was absolutely ridiculous. Purely sensationalist telly, simply to get more people watching the BBC at prime time - targeting about 20 or so people who were actually in Playa de Whatsit to try and jog their memory. Surely the 20 or so people in and around the scene that night are the ONLY ones who could come up with some new, tangible information. Here's an idea, ring those cunts up, or track them down and interview them again.

[Nomoreheroes]

Last night was absolutely ridiculous. Purely sensationalist telly, simply to get more people watching the BBC at prime time - targeting about 20 or so people who were actually in Playa de Whatsit to try and jog their memory. Surely the 20 or so people in and around the scene that night are the ONLY ones who could come up with some new, tangible information. Here's an idea, ring those cunts up, or track them down and interview them again.

I said something similar to the wife. If I'd been one of those 20 people I would like to think that I would have already contacted the police to ask what I could do to help.

[Mister Lorenzo]

And the holier-than-thou shit continues.

(Stolen from another forum)
As a parent, I have faults. Sometimes I give my children beans on toast instead of a healthy meal because I'm busy. Sometimes they climb on stuff that they could fall off and I don't stop them. Sometimes I get home from work after they've gone to bed and I don't see them. Sometimes I leave them for hours at a time, whilst I go out for dinner with my mates.

Oh wait, one of those is gross negligence, not a fault.

fking morons.

[DRS]

Last night was absolutely ridiculous. Purely sensationalist telly, simply to get more people watching the BBC at prime time - targeting about 20 or so people who were actually in Playa de Whatsit to try and jog their memory. Surely the 20 or so people in and around the scene that night are the ONLY ones who could come up with some new, tangible information. Here's an idea, ring those cunts up, or track them down and interview them again.

Yes. The police have taken on the case and are doing the same appeal in Holland Germany and0 Ireland all to get the bbc more viewers.Here is a thought maybe it is two parents who know damn well that the disapearance of their child was down to theis stupidity and until they know what happened will keep doing what they did last night. Only in this country would what the parents done be a bigger issue than the actual crime

[Batch]

To be honest it really doesn't matter what "the internet" thinks. Waking up every day knowing if only you hadn't gone out....is a horror far worse than any public opinion could ever provide.

[Red Frog]

(Stolen from another forum)
As a parent, I have faults. Sometimes I give my children beans on toast instead of a healthy meal because I'm busy. Sometimes they climb on stuff that they could fall off and I don't stop them. Sometimes I get home from work after they've gone to bed and I don't see them. Sometimes I leave them for hours at a time, whilst I go out for dinner with my mates.

Oh wait, one of those is gross negligence, not a fault.

fking morons.

Good soundbite. Except it's not quite that black and white is it.

[LucienSanchez]

I just don't trust their story.

[dagrumpymunki]

Good soundbite. Except it's not quite that black and white is it.

Yes it is. If this had been a working class single mother that had left her kids in the house in Doncaster while she went to the pub next door, rather than a middle class couple that left their kids in an appartment in Portugal while they went to a tapas bar or whatever, the press would have fucking crucified her, and she'd probably have been prosecuted for neglect and lost her other children.


You do not leave young children on their own in the house while you got out drinking. It's very fucking black and white actually.

[fuzzy]

Last night was absolutely ridiculous. Purely sensationalist telly, simply to get more people watching the BBC at prime time - targeting about 20 or so people who were actually in Playa de Whatsit to try and jog their memory. Surely the 20 or so people in and around the scene that night are the ONLY ones who could come up with some new, tangible information. Here's an idea, ring those cunts up, or track them down and interview them again.

The problem with that scenario is that it ignores the potential new witnesses brought in by the change inthe time line. Eliminating the previously suspected man carrying child made the abduction time likely to be later. This identified the second man carrying child who was further away from the apartment, so widening the net and expanding the possibitilites of as yet unidentified witnesses.

The Met have done the right thing in requesting air time on Crimewatch and the foreign equivalantsto open up the enquiry. Crimewatch doesn't approach the Police and ask to feature a particular investigation. The Investigating officer makes a request to Crimewatch.

[jayohaitchenn]

Yes it is. If this had been a working class single mother that had left her kids in the house in Doncaster while she went to the pub next door, rather than a middle class couple that left their kids in an appartment in Portugal while they went to a tapas bar or whatever, the press would have fucking crucified her, and she'd probably have been prosecuted for neglect and lost her other children.

I was going to post something very similar. I don't think there is anything underhand going on from the parents but they made the worst kind of mistake with the worst possible outcome. The blame lies solely with them.

[DMR]

Yeah whoever took her is proper blameless.