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    Question Madeleine McCann

    Madeleine McCann, Missing for over 4years now, Has to be any parents worst nightmare.
    We no longer live in an age of innocence, Were her parents niave , or perhaps irresponsible ? It's very easy to have a false sense of secruity while on holiday, friendly locals, nice weather, with hindsight its plain to see the danger.
    Will we ever find out what really happend , do you think ?
    Theories anyone ?


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    ben needham too went missing in 1991.. still no trace..:{

    i was working in brussels a few yrs ago, was scarey to see so many cars with pictures displayed of children missing.. :{


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    This happens so rarely it's not worth worrying about. Sad for the families concerned but maybe we should concentrate more on things like preventing kids being killed on our roads or in the home every year which is a much more frightening statistic.
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    Leaving a young kid like that in an apartment in a foreign country while they go out and enjoy themselves is irresponsible to say the least.


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    Quote Originally Posted by jamieXXXmaria View Post
    Leaving a young kid like that in an apartment in a foreign country while they go out and enjoy themselves is irresponsible to say the least.
    They keep forgetting to mention that when live on TV
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toneec View Post
    Madeleine McCann, Missing for over 4years now, Has to be any parents worst nightmare.
    We no longer live in an age of innocence, Were her parents niave , or perhaps irresponsible ? It's very easy to have a false sense of secruity while on holiday, friendly locals, nice weather, with hindsight its plain to see the danger.
    Will we ever find out what really happened , do you think ?
    Theories anyone ?
    I think you may have started a thread which may cause problems here.

    Firstly, whilst anyone and everyone can make a guess (most totally uneducated ones, i.e. no police / investigatory background, thus pointless and worthless) there is almost certainly the possibility that people will make libelous posts aimed at the parents.

    When that happened on the Daily Mail and Daily Express blogs the papers (I sent the editors emails suggesting the dangers they may have been exposing themselves to. They both said they did not think their newspapers would be held to blame for libelous post). They both subsequently settled out of court for around half a million pounds each.

    I am sure none of us want anything like that to happen here.


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    The papers made accusations, we've so far talked about facts in the public domain.
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    My heart goes out to the McCanns.

    No more to say.


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    Quote Originally Posted by jamieXXXmaria View Post
    Leaving a young kid like that in an apartment in a foreign country while they go out and enjoy themselves is irresponsible to say the least.
    very very irresponsible jamie and then she contemplated suicide.. her other children must of said heyyy thanks mum.


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    Quote Originally Posted by branno View Post
    very very irresponsible jamie and then she contemplated suicide.. her other children must of said heyyy thanks mum.
    I didn't know that. Sounds like a selfish act was followed by selfish thoughts.


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    Heartbroken people's minds don't always work properly.

    How about some compassion guys ?


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    Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post
    I think you may have started a thread which may cause problems here.

    Firstly, whilst anyone and everyone can make a guess (most totally uneducated ones, i.e. no police / investigatory background, thus pointless and worthless) there is almost certainly the possibility that people will make libelous posts aimed at the parents.

    When that happened on the Daily Mail and Daily Express blogs the papers (I sent the editors emails suggesting the dangers they may have been exposing themselves to. They both said they did not think their newspapers would be held to blame for libelous post). They both subsequently settled out of court for around half a million pounds each.

    I am sure none of us want anything like that to happen here.
    Fully agree, things like this only lead to speculation based on scanty information
    It's been emontional


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    Quote Originally Posted by jamieXXXmaria View Post
    Leaving a young kid like that in an apartment in a foreign country while they go out and enjoy themselves is irresponsible to say the least.
    Looking back many years I used to go on group camping holidays in France and Germany, we always had a tent that the adults gatherd in in the evenings with our children in our own tents, no harm came and we never thought of any, I suppose we were lucky

    I have much sympathy for her parents
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    My kids were taken once... the kidnappers note read: "We'll give you £1000 for each child, please take them back "
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    a long time ago my then wife was out shopping in the local town with 1 of our daughters she was 3 then, and in a split secound she was gone what a shock for those few hours , she had wondered away but was found by a kind person who took her to the police station, i went mad at her for letting her hand go , but thats all it takes to disappear ,


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    I think anyone with kids has has heart stopping moments Steve and the more time goes on in this case the more I am becoming sympathetic for the McCann`s.
    Hope it gets resolved.


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    Quote Originally Posted by jamieXXXmaria View Post
    Leaving a young kid like that in an apartment in a foreign country while they go out and enjoy themselves is irresponsible to say the least.
    and if i remember correctly the mother is a GP and the father a Consultant so you would have thought they would know better and also have the money to pay a baby sitter
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    Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
    and if i remember correctly the mother is a GP and the father a Consultant so you would have thought they would know better and also have the money to pay a baby sitter
    It must be absolutely wonderful to be have lead a completely blameless life and to never have made an errors.

    I would love to be able to say that, but I would be lying.

    We all do things which in hindsight we know were stupid but most time we are lucky that the results are not devastating and even more lucky, that the mistakes did not become public knowledge and thus allow all the 'perfect ones' to tell us, over and over again, how stupid our mistakes were. !!!


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    I am sure the Mccanns regret their actions that night and that probably goes through their mind every single day since. We all make mistakes in life and they are still paying for that mistake. Its easy to criticise their actions but it wont bring back that young girl. I hope to God she is still alive and that she is found. If the subject is to be discussed on here IMHO then it should be directed to helping find Madeline and nothing else.


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    Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post
    We all do things which in hindsight we know were stupid!!!
    I don't

    I know at the time what I'm doing is stupid
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    Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post
    It must be absolutely wonderful to be have lead a completely blameless life and to never have made an errors.

    I would love to be able to say that, but I would be lying.

    We all make do things which in hindsight we know were stupid but most time we are lucky that the results are not devastating and even more lucky, that the mistakes did not become public knowledge and thus allow all the 'perfect ones' to tell us, over and over again, how stupid our mistakes were. !!!

    john i've not lead a blameless life, but i've never left my kids alone in the house, not even for 1 min never mind go for a meal in a restaurant 120metres away.

    little joe is over 4yrs old now, no way could i leave him in the house alone, he could wake up anytime, open doors etc, that would be irresponsible
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    Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
    john i've not lead a blameless life, but i've never left my kids alone in the house, not even for 1 min never mind go for a meal in a restaurant 120metres away.

    little joe is over 4yrs old now, no way could i leave him in the house alone, he could wake up anytime, open doors etc, that would be irresponsible
    I guess though you left them in an upstairs bedroom on their own whilst you were downstairs, watching TV etc. If anything had happened ( I have investigated many cot deaths) it would have been so easy for others to say the same about you.


    The couple who's child was attacked by a fox in an upstairs bedroom whilst they were downstairs is such an example.


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    I think most of us with kids have all been a bit 'slack' at times-no-one is perfect,I bet we have all had a few drinks too many while our kids slept,while on holiday etc etc.
    I don't blame anyone but the child's abductor.


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    Indeed, we leave them 'alone' every night for 8 hours while we're sleeping soundly.


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    Quote Originally Posted by les_taxi View Post
    I think most of us with kids have all been a bit 'slack' at times-no-one is perfect,I bet we have all had a few drinks too many while our kids slept,while on holiday etc etc.
    I don't blame anyone but the child's abductor.
    I totally agree.

    My precious son fell off his bike and broke his arm right in front of me when he was spending the weekend with me.
    I rushed him to the hospital, and it was a traumatic experience, though others may think me a bit soft.

    His mother accused me of neglecting to take proper care of him.

    Nothing could have been further from the truth, but it was very very hurtful for me to hear that at the time.


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    I guess though you left them in an upstairs bedroom on their own whilst you were downstairs, watching TV
    Every parent does that John(unless they live in a bungalow)totally different to wandering off to a restaurant and leaving sleeping kids alone without adult supervision.



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    Quote Originally Posted by johncar54 View Post
    I guess though you left them in an upstairs bedroom on their own whilst you were downstairs, watching TV etc. If anything had happened ( I have investigated many cot deaths) it would have been so easy for others to say the same about you.
    the doors are locked on this house john so no one can take them, also another reason is little joe can open the doors, sure something could happen to them, fall etc, , but how can you compare that to leaving 3 kids alone in an unlocked room while you go out for a meal ??

    i dont think maddie was taken by a fox,

    i'm sure if you was on this case john, you might say they are not to blame to them, but you would be thinking the opposite.

    i've a lot of sympathy for them and especially maddie and i hope this is a warning to other parents to be responsible for their children.

    and john my daughter use to go to the 'kids club' for years, an after school club run by teachers by the school, they looked after the kids from 3:15 to 5:15pm, they were cheap and very good, but until one day i was late, got there 5:20pm and they told me if i had not got there before 5:30 they would have phoned social services , so i dont use them no more, i pay a childminder alot more money to look after them..

    and they dont need blame from me, i'm sure they are still blaming themselves
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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    Indeed, we leave them 'alone' every night for 8 hours while we're sleeping soundly.
    do you leave your doors unlocked graham?

    i live near a council estate, went on there the other evening, it was about 6pm, the house i was going to was at an end of a avenue which must have been about 130metres long, a little girl, must have been 3 at the most ran past me at the top of the avenue all the way to the end, what kind of parent lets a 3yr old out like that
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    this is how vile and disgusting the world really is .... very sickening to say the least.


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    Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
    ......what kind of parent lets a 3yr old out like that
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