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Originally Posted by Josy
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.
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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.