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Originally Posted by Livia
I didn't mean that you personally were delighting in this, but you have to admit there are some pretty disgusting posts, both on this forum and on others, made by people who are clearly out to destroy the McCanns.,,
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There are if course disgusting posts but I don't find any of the accusatory ones to be disgusting, whether right or wrong. There are people who genuinely take pleasure in things like this (and in any "horror story") and that is disgusting, there's nothing funny about any of it no matter what happened to her, but then on a broader scale... Desensitisation is just what happens with media saturation. Trolls will find any reason to troll. I don't feel like they've been targeted more than many other "celebrities" which is unfortunately what they've become.
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If there was any evidence that they were involved I'm confident that they would have been charged by now.
I think the most telling words in what you said are "They almost certainly put them under sedation with over the counter antihistamines...". "Almost certainly" is not evidence. It's mostly hearsay, and whether or not there is any truth in those allegations, it's fair to say that no one here is privy to that evidence if it exists at all.
I would say that if the McCanns were as guilty as some people believe - and I'm not for one minute suggesting they did nothing wrong because of course they did - then why do they not just let it drop and blow over? Instead they've taken every opportunity to keep their daughter's name in the press and in people's minds.
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almost certainly because whilst it has been established that the other two children had been sedated, the McCann's offered the explanation that the kidnapper sedated all three kids before taking her. Given the somewhat shocking "popularity" of sedating children for convenience, the fact that both McCann's are doctors, that they had had trouble with the kids the night before, and that they went out socialising again... I find that explanation extremely dubious and pretty much on the periphery of plausibility.
As for why they might not just let it blow over - less than 20% of the donated funds have gone into looking for maddy with substantially more spend on lawyers protecting the parents from legal scrutiny and attempting to protect then from public scrutiny. That much is fact. The reasons for that are conjecture.
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Everyone makes mistakes, on rare occasions those mistakes result in an horrendous crime. The person toward whom the venom should be directed in my opinion is the monster who took the child. Sadly, sometimes the fact that she was taken by a monster is overshadowed by people's indignation over the McCann's actions. It seems hideously skewed to me.
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It depends on whether or not you believe that she was indeed abducted, I suppose. It may be conspiracy theory territory but it's perfectly viable: her abduction is not fact, it is the current line of enquiry and has been for almost the entire time, but at the end of the day the case is UNSOLVED. No one knows what actually happened to her. I personally am a believer in the good old razor and find "she was drowsy in a strange room with a hard floor, she fell and hit her head and they panicked" more realistic than the one in a million stealthy ninja ghoul child snatcher who entered through the patio, no wait, a tiny window, no wait, he had a key somehow, and drugs to sedate them, and he then slipped away unseen and unheard never to repeat offend.
Regardless, like I said, the case is unsolved and no matter what anyone may think, either (or any other) explanation could be true. It's not for anyone to state anything as truth, but we can decide which we find most plausible.
And like I said earlier in the thread, for me it doesn't matter. Whether she was abducted or had an accident is irrelevant although I personally HOPE she did have an accident because at least then she might not have suffered... But anyway, it doesn't matter because the facts outside of that remain the same.
They neglected her and caused her death.
And I agree that anyone can make a mistake with tragic consequences, but that's not really relevant either... Prisons are full of people who made mistakes with tragic consequences. Drunk drivers who knocked children off of their bikes and killed them. Who will also be wracked with guilt for the rest of their lives. It isn't and shouldn't be a get out of jail free card. They should have been charged with negligence but there's never even been a sniff of it.
Interesting comparison: a young woman in my town had her 3 year old daughter taken into care because she left her at home in bed and went out to a club. Nothing even happened to the girl, someone just informed social services. This is right. She was dangerously negligent. I am 100% convinced that if her daughter had died or been harmed, that women would be behind bars. The same should obviously apply.
I think what bothers me most of all, though, is that in all of their publicity they have never once attempted to say "please for the love of God, to all parents, don't make this same mistake". They have always avoided blame or guilt, and branded themselves as unlucky victims.
I don't think Maddy will ever see any sort of justice. No matter what happened to her.