Missing Madeleine

[redimp]

http://www.findmadeleine.com/

Please Please all look out for this little girl.

[Sunday8pm]

I Echo.

Thoughts to the McCann family..

[fearisthekey]

Millions of hits, so of course some depraved toad crawls out from under his rock to open:

http://www.findmadeliene.com/

http://www.findmadelein.com/

and make a couple of bux out of someone's misery. Nice....

Some progress made today with witnesses/suspects, but BBC not reporting it so I'm not holding my breath.

[Royal Flush]

Personally i am sick to death of the media orgy surrounding her disappearance, i pray she returns as healthy as when she was taken but the media outlets are just abusing the situation to make a packet.

[Ginger]

But without that same 'media orgy' her face would not now be known to millions of people, increasing the chance of her return.

It's never nice to think of someone making money out of a situation like this, but it's a necessary evil.

[Geo the Sarge]

But without that same 'media orgy' her face would not now be known to millions of people, increasing the chance of her return.

It's never nice to think of someone making money out of a situation like this, but it's a necessary evil.

Agree,

The family, quite rightly, are utilising the media to stop this case from disappearing from public notice as similar cases have done in the past.

However Fluhy has a point about the way the media sometime report certain instances. OK they are not happy with the "secrecy" rules of the Portugese authorities and are frustrated at not receiving as much info as they would here in UK.

However it annoys me when they highlight facts like the couple who have reported a possible sighting in Morrocco which they believe the authorities had not acted on. Fine go to the media and ask assistance, but surely this should be by taking it to the authorities and insisting they investigate - not spread it across the front pages.

If it was the case that the young lass was indeed who they had seen, guaranteed she is no longer in Morrocco thanks to the high level coverage in the press.

Geo.

[Sark79]

Personally i am sick to death of the media orgy surrounding her disappearance, i pray she returns as healthy as when she was taken but the media outlets are just abusing the situation to make a packet.

I agree,  when I tune into the news later today I will no doubt see her mothers daily visit to Church being followed by cameras,  how can that help find Madeleine?   Most of the time they are reporting on non news.  Why not report when there is something to actually report.   Like everyone else, I hope she returns as healthy as when she got taken, but sometimes stories are reported on too much and it may be as a way of making some cash for the media like Flushy said. 

Remember the  Jean Charles De Menzies  story from a few years ago or the Jill Dando from about 10 yrs ago?    they were talked about endlessly for about 6 weeks when there was very little new information to actually report. 

[lazaroonie]

i do hope and pray she is found safe and well.

I also hope that when this happens her parents are investigated by social services and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

[RED-DOG]

i do hope and pray she is found safe and well.

I also hope that when this happens her parents are investigated by social services and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Yes, that will help.


Seriously, it's easy to judge, but we don't really know the facts. At worst these parents were negligent. Nothing the law can do (assuming there is a case to answer) will cause them to suffer more than they are suffering already.

Anyone who has children will know the terrible gut-wrenching feeling of losing them, even if it's only for a moment in Tesco's.


There but for the grace of god....

[charmaine]

I'm a natural born worrier and my 2 yr old wears a wrist strap that is joined to me when we are out , i really cant imagine what the parents are going through and pray i never have to .
The media making big bucks out of this i agree , but after seeing this morning last week i would say the parents are lucky .
The little boy who was taken/lost in Greece , his mum was on and told how she never had much press v=coverage or help from British government for many weeks , she felt this didn't help with her case , he will be 18 this year .

[lazaroonie]

i do hope and pray she is found safe and well.

I also hope that when this happens her parents are investigated by social services and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Yes, that will help.


Seriously, it's easy to judge, but we don't really know the facts. At worst these parents were negligent. Nothing the law can do (assuming there is a case to answer) will cause them to suffer more than they are suffering already.

Anyone who has children will know the terrible gut-wrenching feeling of losing them, even if it's only for a moment in Tesco's.


There but for the grace of god....

we know enough facts to make certain judgements though.

- the restaurant they were eating is was 300 yards away from the apartment

- you could not see the front door of the apartment from where they were eating

- they left three small children in an apartment for hours, the oldest of whom was 4.

- this was not the first night they had left them alone

am I wrong in thinking if this had been mr & mrs working class from stevenage then they wouldnt be getting such an easy time from the press ?

[Sark79]

This was exactly the thought I had as well Laz.   They are wealthy though and it is a different set of rules if you come from money.  I just hope it all turns out ok , sadly as time goes by it seems less likely though to end well .
The Police have narrowed it down to Eastern Europe, North Africa, Western Europe and perhaps still Portugal.  They have everywhere covered it seems

[TightEnd]

it is a different set of rules if you come from money. 

what is?

[Sark79]

it is a different set of rules if you come from money. 

what is?

Like Laz said,  if it had been a working class family,  more questions would have been asked regarding them leaving the Kids alone.   I am not qualified to know if I am right or wrong on this though.  I have no Kids or intend having Kids, so I don't understand the pressures involved with parenting.  It may be ok to leave Kids on their own while going out for dinner.  All I know is,  I would rather stay in and eat a pot noddle than do it myself.  I am sure her Mother has beat herself up over this though, so it is wrong of me to make any comment either way.  We all have our views though, right or wrong.

[TightEnd]

As a parent, I would have never have left children of that age alone. When my then wife and I were taking them aborad at that age we gave up any "social" aspect to evenings because the children came first

However I personally am uncomfortable with making the issue a "class" one...each parent or pair of parents has their own way of parenting from whatsoever background they come from in terms of wealth or "class"