[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by ebandit

................i too think the parents are more directly responsible............

imagine? the parents arriving home to find maddie injured/dead

.......they panic! unlikely they would panic! and think 'let's cover this up'

more likely...they panic! and rush maddie to nearest medical centre

even if there was no pulse a parent would hope for resuscitation even when hope

is gone................

Mark L

Really depends. IF they sedated the kids so they could go out on the piss this would show in an autopsy. Kate thought the kids had been drugged apparently yet did not take them to the hospital for tests. How likely is this? A parent thinks their babies have been given unknown drugs by a stranger but doesn't get them checked? If kids were proven sedated, thats both parents jobs over and twins possibly taken from them too.

Normal parents upon discovering an accident would call the ambulance. (IMO again) but these parents had something to hide. Something that could well ruin their lives and the lives of their remaining children.

As chuff said too, there is the chance of sexual abuse. Another reason to not want an autopsy. I haven't thought about the sexual abuse side much as its just a horrible thought but there is definitely something dodgy about their friend David Payne. The Gaspar statements pretty much pin him as a creepy ****er at the very least. then there was a social worker (Yvonne Martin I believe) who recognized Payne from her line of work...child protection.