yes as random paedophiles are everywhere

There is an alternative view to everything, the term conspiracy theorist seems to apply to anyone who is anti the 'norm'.
I feel it's healthy to question everything then form your own opinion.

I'm of the opinion that it is their fault that this happened to their little girl.

I'm sure that's a thought that is in their mind every minute of every day.

I don't think anyone can deny that it is their fault. Of course it is. But at the end of the day, they've lost a little girl and they will never get over that. If people think that her parents being in 'spotlight' is a bad thing, then shame on you IMO. What would you do if your child went missing?

Of course any parent would want it kept on the spotlight.

The 'bad' thing is that there are many other similar cases that should also be kept in the spotlight but aren't because the parents of the missing kids aren't from the same type of background as the McCanns are..

I don't know why people are blaming this on the parents

Read some more information about it then and you may understand why some blame the parents..because whether you believe they are to blame or not it's clearly understandable why some do blame them IMO.

Maybe,because they left 3 kids alone while they went out to dine!!

I have looked at the information I know what happened, they went out to eat while she was asleep

they had no idea this was going to happen, they must fill terrible for it but it's the person who kidnapped Madeleine who is the real blame for this not the parents

You posted above that you couldn't understand why some blamed them?

Surely if you have read about what happened you should be able to understand why some people don't believe the McCanns story or even do believe but feel they are partly responsible in a way for leaving the children alone in the firt place..even if you disagree with those opinions..

Because they come from a particular background shouldn't exclude them from using every tool in their box to keep their child's name in the media. They've worked at this, it doesn't come naturally just because they're middle-class.

What other similar cases are there? I remember the Ben Needham case, it frightened the life out of me when I was a child. Ben Needham's mother was on telly quite recently saying she would never, ever give up hope. I don't even recall what background she was from because it's not important.

As her parents,THEY had a duty to make sure their children were safe,afterall child minders WERE available for some petty cash,their meal was obviously more important than the childrens welfare,so hence they get blamed and rightly so,if they weren't alone this sorry saga might never have happened.

They went out while she and her two even younger siblings were asleep, they were babies really, they left the apartment unlocked and went out even though the night before Maddie had told them she woke up and couldn't find them and she was upset. As a parent I will never understand how another parent could be so stupid and irresponsible to do what they did

Don't you think they regret what they did every single moment? Losing their daughter in this terrible way might mean they've suffered more than any kind of prison sentence they might have been handed.

I've read some pretty appalling stuff on the web. I still trust what the police have and what they're going on far more than some uncorroborated sensationalist garbage on the Internet.

Yes Ben Needham's Mother is still searching for him, funding everything by herself iirc, the private investigator that was dealing with the case said he gets hundreds of reports every year about sightings, yet it's never breaking news, never front page of the papers, funny that IMO I think if his mother was a doctor instead of a waitress in a hotel then it would be plastered all over the news constantly...that's my opinion just like it's my opinion that if Maddie had been from a family that lived off of benefits in a council estate then the parents would have been done for neglect and the case would be nowhere near as high profile as it has become.

The case of Shannon Matthews is probably the closest one compared to Maddie. People spent more time pointing out what a bad mother Karen was (obviously more than bad, evil) and the area she came from than Shannon herself. And nobody ever seems to mention that whilst she was thought missing the whole community got together and went out looking for her. We never really hear an update on Shannon or how she's doing, it all seems to be focused on the mother and stories that get people outraged for about half an hour.

They must suffer terribly Livia,and I cant imagine how they have coped,but I still think it was a crazy thing to do,I know we all think it wont happen to us,but sadly sometimes it does.I just know I couldn't settle if I went out without mine,I could never leave them alone,I don't understand anyone that would.I'm sure they do regret it,but their thoughtlessness,caused the scenario for someone to take her.

Ben Needham disappeared twenty five years ago. Maybe when Madeleine's been missing for that long it won't be front page news anymore. His mother funded a campaign in the same way the McCanns are doing. Honestly, I think this is a case of inverted snobbery. Do they deserve harsher treatment because they're middle class? Ben Needham disappeared without trace, left alone playing in the garden of his grandparents' house aged 21 months. Is that not neglect?

If Madeleine had been from a family who lived off benefits on a council estate what the hell would they be doing in Portugal at a tapas bar? And honestly, if the McCanns, obviously eaten up with grief, had been done for neglect, the country would have been outraged.

Hopefully they solve this case but people who think theres a chance madeleine is still alive are clutching on strings.

Shannon Matthews wasn't abducted though. It's not the same thing at all!

Hey :-) x

Sorry but watching the crimewatch thing and hearing for the first time about Madeleine saying to her mother the night before she went missing 'why didn't you come when I was crying last night'...well lets just say it takes an incredibly cold person to leave their child again the night after that.

I had obviously heard the reports of the neighbour before(crying for an hour and half...now when were those checks? :conf: ), but I did not know the child herself actually questioned her parents on it and they STILL went out on the piss and left her alone.

Its little things like this that make me have little sympathy for the McCanns.

Those were compared by the media at the time. And she was locked in a room and drugged to keep her from leaving or know what's going on. So it's not like she could leave at any time.

Hello :pipe:

Well I'm sure they'd do things differently if they had the chance to go back. It's rather hard-hearted not to have a modicum of sympathy at all for a family who's lost a little girl, despite the obvious mistakes that were made.

I remember that the sketch of the kidnap looked exactly like her dad:joker: