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Originally Posted by rusticgal

Although their behaviour both before and after Madeleines disappearance baffles me…I don’t think they were guilty. They were guilty of neglect and their daughter lost her life as a consequence of their neglect. Some of what you hear is suspect…I wouldn’t trust the Police force out there as far as I could throw them…they were useless and they would have done anything to protect the reputation and tourism to their popular resort….it transpires their were many paedophiles in the area at the time…the McCanns and their friends created a routine and a massive opportunity to feed them..

To be fair, yeah, the actual specifics of what happened to her are less important in terms of what I think happened. Either it was what I personally believe - they left them alone and she died in an accident… or it was what’s claimed - they left her alone and she was either taken by an intruder. The latter is actually worse. The covering-up is incidental really, they were negligent with their children’s safety either way, and while I have sympathy for them in many ways, I think there should have been consequences and that the only reason there were none is because they’re upper-middle class. If they had been a working class family on a beach holiday and the same had happened, at the very least, social services would have been all over the other two kids like flies on their return to the UK.