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Originally Posted by joeysteele
I am obviously not a parent yet, but for me the burning question always keeps hitting me,I have no idea what happened but I will never understand how 2 parents of such intelligence would go on holiday with their very young Children and for ANY time at all leave them alone in the room with no adult watching them or even not to use the Hotels own minding service.
Above all else,I cannot understand how any decent or responsible parents would or could do that.
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I'm of the same opinion. They could have fallen out of beds cracking young bones, could have choked on their vomit, got up and electrocuted themselves playing around with sockets etc, woke up thirsty and drank something they shouldn't have, - just a few things that could have gone wrong within minutes of the parents not being within hearing distance.
Something that trulydoesn't sit well with me is the mother's revelation about Maddie asking why she (Mum) didn't come when they were crying - ..... why indeed? Seems on that holiday, the night Maddie went missing wasn't the only night then that the kids took a 'back seat' and weren't attended to. Surely any parent, esp on holiday if they hear their child/children crying - they'd investigate - it could have been they were ill, were being bitten alive by mosquitoes, saw a cockroach and were frightened - and that's just the start of any good number of reasons to go check on crying children.
There always has been something that smacked 'not right' for me about this whole case.
Do the parents deserve it? Possibly - they made that choice, they'll have to live with it, their actions allowed this to happen. The person who deserves my sympathy is Maddie for having parents willing to leave her and her siblings alone, when they were out drinking and eating and out of earshot/sight, willing to put her and them in a situation that did pan out terribly for a young child who did nothing to deserve whatever has /had happened to her.