Maddy - Is this too Insensitive?

[eyebrows]

Right,

Im not being funny but why is everyone over looking that fact that Mother McCann gave her child sleeping pills and went out for a meal?

Would everyone be so sensitive if this woman was a 22yr old single mum claiming benefits from Bermondsey Job Centre?

Im just putting it out there.....dont shoot me down....i am just curious as to people opinions?

[andrea81]

So do you feel just as strongly about the father accused of stabbing his son to death and trying to stab to death daughter?

[Reverandfunk]

Weren't the kids in the creche all day?
Didnt the parents leave them EVERY night of the holiday?
Wasnt mrs bad parents heard screaming at Madeline every night at bedtime?
Etc etc

It wasn't an isolated incident them being left alone, the tradegy is a little girl is lost because of her parents neglect.

No other word for it.

[B00]

Yep agree- they were naive, selfish, stupid. I've never said they were otherwise.

Am I wrong in assuming that you believe they shouldn't be getting this publicity because they were all of the above?

[Reverandfunk]

The thing I dont like is the way they appear (to me) to have courted the publicity.

Bottom line is the kid disappeared because of them and only them and now they are doing whatever they and their sugar daddy can get her back. Don't forget there is still no evidence that she was abducted.

[B00]

Rev....I always thought that the holiday clubs in resorts were for only a few hours per day? Can you confirm that it was for the entire day, every day?

Was it really every single night? Where does it state this?

Which "reliable source" has stated they heard Katie screaming at her daughter?

[eyebrows]

no, i am merely asking, does anyone think that the media/population are being overly kind?

read the question....

i think personally if it was a single mum, leaving teh kid to go get a pack of fags, or whatever, that the media would be branding her an "unfit mum"

that was my point......

[andrea81]

Eyebrows - yes I agree, that would probably have happened knowing our media, but because that hasn't happened and the Mccans are having a lot of support, I can only think that they are counting their blessings for that and how much money has been donated to keep their plight going!

But then again I have no proof that a single mother on benefits 'wouldn't' get the same treatment - this is all assumtion isn't it?

[eyebrows]

yeah i suppose.....but you wouldnt disagree with me tho would you?

and its a pity they didnt count there blessings the day she was born......

[MAMA KIN]

Nobody deserves to lose a child this way - regardless what sort of parent you are.

Does anybody think that they actually had anything to do with her dissappearance (other than leaving her in a room)?

Knowing portugese law dictates that they would be "accused/investigated" by the Police, would the best hiding place for your innocence be out in the open under the media spotlight? Just a thought.

The fact that there is little facts being released about the case, and that most is speculation is helpiing the guilty party. I think that the media hype should calm down now and let the police due their job without worrying what the morning papers are going to say.

[andrea81]

Sky news just announced it is NOT Maddie

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1 285900,00.html

What a shame! Parents must be close to the edge with all the ups and downs!

[spaced]

mmm, does look alot like her though

[netibiza]

BOO I have to disagree with you, being a parent means having the foresight so that these things do NOT happen to one's child. Yes there are always real accidents which no amount of foresight can avoid - but leaving children unattended is avoidable and should never be done not even for a second, as this case proves.

[netibiza]

and yes, Maddie went to the creche after breakfast everyday (about 9.30) was collected for lunch at 12.30 (lucky girl) and then back to chrech again and had her tea there at 17.30 and then home to bed! Some holiday!!!

[Supernick]

An error of judgement does not constitute abuse. A bad one, granted, but it's definitely not abuse. I have the utmost sympathy for them, as should anyone who has an empathetic bone in their body.
I would have been taken awayby social services a long time ago if that sort of thing constituted neglect.

1. When I was about 6 being a little sh*t in the supermarket and was having to be dragged along the floor screaming, my Mum said she'd leave me there. She did, and went round the corner for 10 seconds to scare me. In that time I sprinted off and was tearfully handed in to the service desk 10 minutes later having lost her. (and it certainly did scare me). She's a wonderful person, and mother, and perhaps made a poor judgement call.

Now that's not 1/2 an hour alone in a foreign country, but I'm just saying that you can't be perfect parents, and never expect to make a mistake. Sympathise with those that do, when the worst happens.

[netibiza]

Supernick, that sounds like good parenting to me!!!! Happened here to my friends, and the police were called, (mother was waiting round the corner) and the police told the child off for screaming and told the mother that it was fine.

[jackthehat]

The screaming mentioned is actually 'after-the-fact'...........the sort of keening a mother who has lost her child, is at her wits' end and is repeatedly vilified in the international press and by sanctimonious 'grumblies' is likely to make.........
.....the sort of sound made by an anguished parent who now realises that the 'risk-assessment' she and her husband made was woefully wrong...........
......and as for the 'over-sedation' theory. The woman is an ANAETHATIST, for crying out-loud. That she could over-dose a child on Calpol is like suggesting that I'll suddenly forget how to walk !!

Many are claiming to be royally sick of the media coverage but not quite enough to stop swallowing the wholesale pap being generated and there we ought to blame the media themselves.

However, I do not blame the McCanns for making as much noise, rattling as many cages and making the authorities squirm as much as they possibly can. Not to do so would be to compound the dreadful mistakes they made in May........

[mycats]

They clearly did a VERY VERY stupid thing, but do they deserve this? of course not, did Maddie deserve to die for her parents mistake? of course not. I firmly believe the poor wee mite is dead (that pics was ridiculous, how could anyone think it was her?) but the person responsible for her death (if she is) is the person who did it!! Not ehr parents, as stupid and irresponsible as they were.

[netibiza]

When you go out for a meal do you lock your house, and why,?because you have valued possessions in there, AND you KNOW there are burglars around waiting to rob you. So this must apply to parents also. Yes, the abductor is evil and wicked, but we know they are out there and we have to protect our offspring from them, not leave the doors unlocked for them to enter!

[mycats]

Sadly very true Netti, its just a horrible story all round :-(