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While this whole sorry episode is horrendous and we know it is
my facebook feed had this as at trending
Theresa May grants Scotland Yard another £95k for 6 months more investigation, i didnt realise that its cost the UK tax payer over 12 million quid now
then you move away from the " celebrity status " of the McCann's and over to other missing children
this was the link, i just clicked forward a few pages, well to page 13 to get a similar time span
http://www.missingkids.co.uk/missing/?p=13
I wonder how much has been spent to find them ? ? ?
So why the McCann's ? ? ?
as a side note, that page consists of people who just might not be from the UK, do the East Asians ( a few look Chinese but i guess they could be from some other east asian country ) and Asians have issues with children going missing more than the Europeans / Brits, do family members snatch them and take them home to where the family members might have come from ? ? ?
as it happens, Maddie is on that list, page 15
what a scary and sad site, all them children still missing
I hope every parent who has a child " vanish " in this way is reunited with them , alive
hopefully or dead because this will give them some closure even though it won't take away
the hurt and grief.
Personally I don't know how parents can carry on after this sort of thing happens , celebs or not.
The series last year with James Nesbitt in it really summed it up , although it was drama not factual.
I've always wondered why so much effort goes into this child but not others. As sad as it is it all seems disproportionate.
It's horrendous the amount of public money that has been wasted on this one case when so many other children go almost unreported.
Ps, the mccanns should both been charged with neglect.
Whilst I don't think the McCanns killed their daughter they were neglectful. They have though paid an incredibly heavy price. Should they be charged? Yes I guess they should although I think they have suffered enough.
I totally agree the money spent on this case is wholly disproportionate and it is very unfair on other parents whose children are missing.
If it wasn't for their profession then I doubt very much there would be this much money spent on the caseOriginally Posted by Pearcey3
Yep agreed. It's wrong and very unfair on others whose children are missing but they don't get a fraction of the resources used. It hasn't done this McCanns any good as it makes people resentful towards them. Besides their daughter remains missing.
I have never understood why parents go on holiday with their kids and do something like this. When our boys were young and we went abroad they had s siesta in the afternoon and were ready to stay up late and go out for evening meals as a family.
Its both sad and unbalanced , I think some parents have come forward to say this .
I just cant imagine how difficult this is ,the McCanns I presume have had the drive and financial support to keep this in the media , difficult one, you could argue very disproportionate and an equally difficult political decision to say enough is enough ?
Yup, well spoken , nice looking 'middle class' professional couple.
Also a very pretty little girl.
The Tabloids and the media went into absolute overdrive over this case also - that's still a huge factor in how much resource has been allocated to this particular missing child situation.
If it had been a couple of chubby, average looking working class Northerners or Welshies , with a missing plump, swarthy lad, we would barely be aware of it now.
And the parents would have been charged with neglect and pilloried by the media
My feelings exactly. I accept they are probably being treated differently because they are articulate and don't live on a sink estate. But they made a mistake and they've paid heavily.
I will always have the hope (whilst no body has been found) that, at worst, the girl was kidnapped and is alive and will one day be reunited with her parents, I know we have a god squad on here who have never done anything wrong in their lives, hate successful people etc. and have convicted the parents based on internet evidence, until a body is found and subsequent evidence proves foul play has been proven, the parents for me, are guilty of no more than being negligent in leaving the girl (a terrible mistake) alone for a kidnapping to have taken place, I have read the majority of the internet stuff on this case, innocent until proven guilty.
Are you saying that you don't hold them culpable in any way for the child going missing? Not sying they did or didn't do it but their actions led to the child being missing and as such should shoulder the blame.
Would you saying losing a child is enough punishment?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rosecuted.html - Would suggest that it's not just wealthy middle class parents who get away with these things.
If you read it again, I'm sure you will see that, I think they have been negligent
As a parent (and grandparent) I can't imagine anything worse than one of your kids going missing and never knowing what became of them.
Yes the Mccanns were negligent on that night but no amount of finger pointing will ever compare to the guilt they undoubtedly feel about their actions that night.
Prosecuting them benefits nobody - it won't bring Maddie back and the parents are being punished every single day already.
No
where is Steve R with his " book " pic ? ? ?
It's really interesting how the McCann's are considered at fault for leaving their kids alone at night in a private room. At what point is it not wrong to leave them alone? When do you stop scaring them about how bad a place the world is so they don't become trapped in a mental prison of your making?
Life is a gamble in many respects and living your whole life in fear is no life at all. If you tell me the McCanns are criminally negligent for not seriously considering that someone may really break into their hotel room and kidnap their kids then I think it's you who have the problem, not them. Would I do what they did? Probably not, but then I've let my kids camp in our back garden which is arguably even more dangerous - there's just the illusion of it being safer because the setting is more familiar.
To consider that losing their kid is not punishment enough is simply mind-boggling to me.
I believe leaving a 3 year old in a Portuguese hotel room that you've been acquainted with for less than a week to be retarded and/or negligent.
I know many of my friends who have 3 year olds and wouldn't leave them in their own house alone while they popped down the road to the shops, let alone an unknown part of a foreign country.
did they not leave the door ajar aswell ? ? ?
I must be completely over the top, i will not leave my 8yr old alone in the house, even to pop down the shop which is about 5 mins away
you know you want to
Go on then, I got you in one ear and Mrs R in the other....'Post it, go on....Post it!....'
Richard D Hall went to Portugal and investigated the story, his documentaries are worth a watch, there is quite a few hours worth on there but they go in to everything, including the fundraising campaigns ect.
http://www.madeleinefilms.net/
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