[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I don't delight in any of it, I would love to see justice served properly in this case, meaning that both of them should have faced prison time for negligence. Frankly, if they weren't middle class doctors with political connections they probably would have.

I have a massive, massive problem with what they did being excused because of the fact that they are suffering anyway - it sends a message that their actions were OK / normal / understandable / just unlucky rather than criminally negligent. They didn't just leave them alone. They almost certainly put them under sedation with over the counter antihistamines. This sort of thing is SHOCKINGLY common and a message has to be sent, whatever the cost, that it is not OK or normal or vaguely acceptable to endanger your children in this way.

Anyone can make an absent minded mistake. Anyone can get distracted and endanger someone in their care. This is not that. This was deliberate, calculated, blatant negligence. If they have to suffer more in order for just one more person to get the message that their actions were mind-boggling complacent then so be it.

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. 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. 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.

Again, I'm not addressing my comments to you personally and naturally you have a perfect right to you own opinion. It's when people's opinions roll over into the territory of trolling at best and libel at worst that I find it totally unacceptable.