Madeleine McCann

I though the BBC said she was still being treated as a witness??

YOu would have to be incredably stupid to so that to your own daughter and then make such a fuss andeffort to find her appeal etc.

To me i just dont think they done anything to her, it dosent add up, the ammount of coverage this has had they would have been implicated long ago.

I have sympathy for them due to the fact their little girl has gone i know how i would feel if it had been my duaghter gone missing, but on the other hand i am fed up with hearing about it and how they have become celebs over it. when the bottom line was its their fault she went missing, if they had bothered to twke the kids to eat with them or eaten in the appartment she would still be here now.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Ed

You would care if she were your daughter.

Yeah, but she isn't so why should we?

Kids die and go missing ALL the time - its part of the world we live in.

Yes we should feel for them, just like following yesterdays news about Pavarotti dying, we should feel sorry for the family

But to put it in perspective, my Uncle also died yesterday, but why should anyone outside of my family care about that any less than Pav, but because he wasn't a famous "star", no-one who doesnt read this, or the Local Paper obituaries will know or care.

This story should have amounted to "Little Girl on Holiday goes missing from room", not turned into a huge media event with the parents jet-hopping over europe, getting audiences with the Pope and getting huge celebrity support etc.

Will be interesting to see how all those people react if it turns out the parents were involved.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by neio79

I though the BBC said she was still being treated as a witness??

Thats what the news on Radio 4 said last night, but now the BBC website is reporting that the mother is going to be made a suspect so the portuguese police can ask her another load of questions, but this isnt from the Portuguese police themselves, its a quote from a friend of the family... see more media fuss...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6982969.stm

Oh, well it will be interesting to see how that pans out then? obviously the DNA threw up some questions? ?

they did it!

where pedrosa when you need him. Their legal system baffles me

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Yeah, but she isn't so why should we?

I think this is one of the harshest statements I've ever read on this board.

I take a fundamentally different view of this to everyone else on this thread. The McCanns have done this media circus thing to keep their daughter in the public eye, precisely so that she doesn't slip out of public view. I can't blame them for that, in fact I admire their energy and devotion to the cause.

Yes they were downright stupid to leave their children unattended. What if there had been a fire - they could have lost all three children, not one.

But these people are not self-serving self-publicists. There is no evidence (in the public domain, anyway) linking them with abduction, murder, or anything else beyong stupidity and carelessness. Yes of course they should have known better, but fact is it's happened. You might say that they're closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, but if they did nothing they would be labelled as callous and uncaring.

I applaud their efforts to find their daughter. Were she mine, I would do exactly the same.

Death is natural. That's a harsh truth of the world.

Child abduction, however, is not.

I have to say that this case has been getting on my bits for a while now. I wouldn't wish a missing/snatched child on my worst enemy, I'm sure the parents are going through Hell right now,

BUT...

When the situation first came to light they insisted the kid had been covered by the "babysitting service" on offer. Then they say they had actually been popping in every twenty minutes to check (which I don't believe for a second). Then it turns out that the house wasn't even locked and they'd actually left the patio doors open "to let fresh air in..."

Say the wee lassie (or either of her her infant siblings, who were also left unattended) had wandered into the garden, fallen in the pool and drowned. Would there be all the media fuss about the poor, dear parents, they must be devastated, blah, blah, blah..."

No, the media would be baying for their blood. Every time I see the scrawny mother clutching that stuffed toy and wearing an expression like a spaniel that's just been kicked, my blood pressure goes up about fifty points.

This story has dragged on for far too long and its most unfair to all the other parents who've had their children kidnapped too. Why should one missing child get so much more publicity compared to another? Especially when some blame can be put on the parents- they should never have left those children on their own.

I find the McCann's new celebrity status very disturbing. There was a news clip a while back when the parents flew to Morocco- private jet- and on arrival, a street lined with children waving banners with Madeleine's picture on!!!!

Originally Posted by Ed

I think this is one of the harshest statements I've ever read on this board.

I take a fundamentally different view of this to everyone else on this thread. The McCanns have done this media circus thing to keep their daughter in the public eye, precisely so that she doesn't slip out of public view. I can't blame them for that, in fact I admire their energy and devotion to the cause.

Yes they were downright stupid to leave their children unattended. What if there had been a fire - they could have lost all three children, not one.

But these people are not self-serving self-publicists. There is no evidence (in the public domain, anyway) linking them with abduction, murder, or anything else beyong stupidity and carelessness. Yes of course they should have known better, but fact is it's happened. You might say that they're closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, but if they did nothing they would be labelled as callous and uncaring.

I applaud their efforts to find their daughter. Were she mine, I would do exactly the same.

Death is natural. That's a harsh truth of the world.

Child abduction, however, is not.

Not thought of it like that but i do agree of sorts.

however i do find the posters of her all over the placea bit OTT. Why put them in UK airports, if she came back in then she would have been picked up.

Originally Posted by melody

This story has dragged on for far too long and its most unfair to all the other parents who've had their children kidnapped too. Why should one missing child get so much more publicity compared to another? Especially when some blame can be put on the parents- they should never have left those children on their own.

Very good point and I'm sure that this is the reason why many of us aren't as sympathetic as Ed.