How dare the BBC........

Originally Posted by Stingo

Whilst it most certainly is an unusual situation, how many people every day, leave their child/children in the car when they go to pay for the petrol just as a matter of course. I'm not trying to say the parents are blameless in this case, but monitoring kids is, as many of us know, a complex issue.

IMHO somebody knew that little girl was in that room...

yes but there is a differance between leaving your kid in your locked car while you pay 5 meters away and can see them 100% of the time, and f**king of down the road for a meal with at least 1/2 hour gaps with out having eyes on.also the fore court is on CCTV from every angle not a walled secluded complex with no prying eyes.

Which ever way you cut it second to the person who did it the parents are to blame.

I have 4 kids, you cannot take your eyes of them. It only takes a second for a tragedy to happen, this story proves it. I would never leave my younger kids alone in the house even if i was only at my next door neighbours.
It was foolish and now they are suffering.
I do hope little maddy is found alive and untouched but sadly i do not feel this will be the case.

[Stingo]

Originally Posted by neio79

yes but there is a differance between leaving your kid in your locked car while you pay 5 meters away and can see them 100% of the time, and f**king of down the road for a meal with at least 1/2 hour gaps with out having eyes on.also the fore court is on CCTV from every angle not a walled secluded complex with no prying eyes.

Which ever way you cut it second to the person who did it the parents are to blame.

I didn't say they were blameless - I was just highlighting the whole child watching picture. As viper said

It only takes a second for a tragedy to happen,

- it sure takes longer than a second to cross the forecourt...the forecourt of a highly explosive petrol station, a place where historically cars are known to have been taken whilst the owner is in the office paying for the fuel...within sight...on CCTV.

At the end of the day, whilst it certainly gets dark, no-one deserves to have their child/children taken in this way and I guess in a perfect world we would all expect not to have that kind of risk. As a parent myself, I just think that we should tread cautiously until we know more facts surrounding this issue before villyfying from the rafters those whom we deem to be stupider than ourselves.



I'd like to know how the kidnapper accessed the apartment/flat...pass key? broke in? Or did the previous checkee leave the door unlocked? It's all so sad really...

I wouldn't leave my 13 year old son alone in a room for half hour at a time let alone a child of her age. If a fire had broken out the parents would have had no chance of saving their kids and harsh as it sounds if they had been responsible in the first place then that beautiful little girl would not be missing now

Originally Posted by Warthog

Although I do agree with you here, it is a sad world if the moment you leave your child unattended for more than an hour she gets kidnapped

true, but as we know things like this do happen. & IMO its the perants total responsability, they were in a differant country & i think that they should have been even more alert.

did they have 3 kids, & the other 2 are ok?

anywho............ the effort should be trying to find her.

Originally Posted by neio79

I will probably be shot down in flames for this, however I feel a lot of the blame for this has to lie with the parents. I am NOT saying that they deserved it etc. However what the f**k were they doing leaving 3 young kids in a locked room when they f**ked off for a meal??

By the looks of it although the restaurant is 50yds as the crow flies, you still have to leave the compound and cross a road!!

I have a 7yr old and there is no way ever I would consider leaving her on her own a sleep and swaned of for a meal no mater if it was across the road at my neighbours (10meters).

I do think that the media try to pick on someone though, maybe they should concentrate on the parents for doing something so stupid? Even if she had not been taken, what if there had been a fire?? 3 kids dead cos their stupid parents locked them in a room.

Now it is a crying shame I hope they catch the pervert who done it and torture him/her to death, no ifs no buts. Pedos deserve to die in the most horrendous way ever, and if anyone on here tries to defend them or say, no lets think of them and why they done it then they deserve to have the sh8t kicked out of them as well!!! If something ever happened to my little girl like that and the offender was caught, I really would drag their painfull death out for as long as possible making sure the last thing they saw and heard before I plucked out their eyes and perforated their eardrums was my little girls image and voice.

Rant over

I'm totally with you on this one !

I have 4 kids and would never leave/left them like that. You cant take your eyes off them for a minute. What were those parents thinking of locking them in an apartment, owt could have happened....... fire, one could have vomited and choked, fell or climbed out of cot/bed....anything could have happened.....and sadly did, now they're paying the ultimate price for their carelessness. I dread to think whats happened to that little girl.

im sure the parents are tearing themselves up without everyone else joining in. they did a silly thing. but someone must have been watching them. I hate to think what has happened to the wee one. Unlikely that someone nice who wants to look after her has taken her.

Yes kitkat, someone must have been monitoring their behaviour over a couple of days..... it all seems a bit odd.

It has seemed to have changed things a bit, the disclosure of the information that the parents lef the little girl alone. It's certainly changed my veiw of the situation - the parents are partly responsible for whats happened, but then you dont think these things can happen. Maybe they did take precautions - locked the door, but left the window open a tad and the kidnapper got in this way. Maybe it was someone at the hotel, a cleaner with the door key / card, although I think that this would have been easily sussed.

Its a terrible situation, and as much as we condem the parents for this neglegence of their responsibilities, they must feel even worse - to know that you child has gone missing AND that you are partly responsible must be the worst feeling in the world.

I hope she is found alive and well, that poor little girl must be terrified.

Matt