[Josy]

Originally Posted by Livia

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.

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.