Madeleine Mc Cann.

[patsyann]

The Mc Cann Parents are once again whinging that the British police have given up searching for Madeleine.The search cannot go on for ever using our Police.The Mc Canns have funds to carry on their own search in Portugal but why expect our police to be used when Madeleine went missing in Portugal. She would not be missing if they had not left her in the flat I hasten to add.I so hope that she is safe and well looked after somewhere bless her. Other children have gone missing I do not remember Ben Needhams Mother expecting help when he went missing in Greece many years ago.I am tired of them complaining.

[thetruthhurts]

Couldn't agree more.

[rowanwitch]

Had they left her in an apartment in the uk they may well have been charged with negligence....no-one will ever know the truth about what happened that night I suspect it is now the guilt for leaving the kids that drives them on but I just wonder what long term damage has been done to their other children.....will they grow up knowing their needs were put on hold while mummy and daddy went all over the place looking for their sister. They may well believe they were second best.... not a healthy place to be as you grow up

As a side issue a friend who worked as a nanny said the resort had exceptionally good child minding facilities but they were expensive.....

[ICEQUEEN20]

They should have been arrested for negligence. How are they still allowed to be the "responsible adults" for their 2 other children - beggers belief !

[ummmm]

Do you not think the learnt by their mistakes?

[4getmenot]

I agree the police cannot go on forever looking for her. But its not whinging or complaining its giving them hope. Put yourself in their shoes and just think you would do anything to try and get your daughter back. And as for leaving those kids alone. Dont you think everyday 'what if' and blame themselves for not being there. I hope one day she is found.

[Graham-W]

Methinks the lady doth protest too much. ( Wm. Shakespear)

[Davethedog]

Couldn't agree more with the comments on here, Maddy was lost in Portugal so why criticise the British police?

Could it just be they haven't been in the papers for a while?

[sara3]

are you also going to have a dig at Jamie Bulger's mother for letting go of his hand and taking her eyes off him?

dear oh dear...

[Old_Geezer]

Regardless of how & why the tragedy occurred, the fact is that we do not have an infinite budget to spend and infinite time to work on any particular case. There is inevitably a point at which, if it has not been solved it must become low priority, effectively waiting for something new to come up, while more recent, more solvable cases are progressed.

I'm sure there are other cases that have not had a fraction of the attention this one has had.

Sad it may be but there is always a point at which a UK citizen has to be effectively given up on, save for any future new lead.

[Davethedog]

Sara theres a huge difference between what happened to James Bulger and leaving you three children alone and unattended for hours so you could go drinking.

[sara3]

hours? without checking on them?

[ummmm]

They are not the only parents in the world to leave sleeping children while they have dinner some metres away.

[4getmenot]

if you read the news they have been raising money for the missing people organisation, they did a run along with many others in january to help people remember all the people that are missing

[Davethedog]

So they say - Its not what the people at thier table said when first questioned - Was it?

[Panic Button]

Some metres away Ummmm?

They were the other side of the swimming pool, out of sight and earshot.

If the children had been screaming, the parents would not have known.

[smurfchops]

It must be a terrible thing to lose a child, but I must admit I'm sick of seeing her miserable face in the paper every couple of months or so. She must use her own funds now to search, our police have done all they can. The British police have enough to cope with in this country let alone Portugal. If she is still alive, I doubt if she is still in Portugal anyway.

[4getmenot]

another post to slate the mccanns for something I'm sure they blame themselves for. But the post should have been just about if the british police should carry on and no I dont think they should.

[Sqad]

They are continuing this campaign out of a sense of self guilt............understandable in my opinion.

Also, in my opinion, she was dead within 48hours of her abduction.