View Full Version : Maddy McCann missing in Portugal
Jessie Wallace
11-08-2009, 11:25
They have got to keep going, not for them, but for the other 2 children, why disprut the kids lifes any more than it's already been.
They have got to keep going, not for them, but for the other 2 children, why disprut the kids lifes any more than it's already been.
9 days after Madeleine is missing.. 2 days after the twins were in creche.. Your daughter is missing and you have been spotted jogging, and laughing with the crowd a few days later.. does that sound like they were doing it for the twins or themselves?
Jessie Wallace
11-08-2009, 11:45
Sounds to me like they were trying to get people's support, asking people if they saw anything. Trying to get answer's, and dragging two small children around whilst you do that is not the best idea
Trying to get answer's, and dragging two small children around whilst you do that is not the best idea
True but they went to see the pope when there was reports of sightings in Morocco... they said they felt they were watched yet they put the kids back into the same creche and let everyone know they did...
If it was me and one of my kids went missing, I would have the other one glued to me at all times in case they went missing too... maybe I don't know how you react in these situations having never been in that position thankfully.
I am not accusing them of anything but I have seen some pretty weird behaviour from these two over the years.. Gerry's wider agenda was one of them when he talked about the 1st Anniversary only months after Madeleine went missing.. why?? She could have been found at any time..
My thoughts and prayers are with Madeleine.. She is the only victim in all this and sadly we may never ever know what happened to this little girl
moonstorm
11-08-2009, 12:55
I don't think any us of know how we would react in a situation like this. People do act very strangely under stress. AND the papers can report things in a way that puts a different slant on things!
Pinkbanana
11-08-2009, 14:36
My thoughts and prayers are with Madeleine.. She is the only victim in all this and sadly we may never ever know what happened to this little girl
I totally agree with your posts.... the parents' behaviour has been very odd to say the least, especially in the days following her disappearance. Moreover, they dont seem to see that it was wrong leaving three children under the age of five alone at night, while they wined and dined with friends... some distance away.
As it should be, they've been trough enough now. They should be left alone, there guilt would be and is punishment enough. There's enough anger and ill thought in the world, surely enough is enough now
I agree. I'm sure the parents feel enough guilt for what they did without being thrown in prison abroad and the social taking their children. I highly doubt they will do it again. They leant their lesson at a huge cost - they don't need further punishment.
Actually, I have never heard either of them express any guilt over what they did. Quite the opposite in fact, Gerry is on record as saying that what they did was within the realms of responsible parenting. I must be damn irresponsible as a parent cos I'd never leave my children alone in a foreign apartment to go out on the lash with my mates.
Hannelene
11-08-2009, 20:12
As it should be, they've been trough enough now. They should be left alone, there guilt would be and is punishment enough. There's enough anger and ill thought in the world, surely enough is enough now
I agree. I'm sure the parents feel enough guilt for what they did without being thrown in prison abroad and the social taking their children. I highly doubt they will do it again. They leant their lesson at a huge cost - they don't need further punishment.
Actually, I have never heard either of them express any guilt over what they did. Quite the opposite in fact, Gerry is on record as saying that what they did was within the realms of responsible parenting. I must be damn irresponsible as a parent cos I'd never leave my children alone in a foreign apartment to go out on the lash with my mates.
I know it is amazing how Gerry has said that!
Jessie Wallace
11-08-2009, 22:01
The distance they left them was tiny, the same as the garden to house, and no i don't have a big garden. There are far worse crimes that get far less coverage and attack than this seems to get. Maybe it's just me, i don't know.
I'm gunna stop now, coz i feel we just going round in circles now, and i'm not very good at expressing what i actually mean :(
Pinkbanana
11-08-2009, 22:52
The distance they left them was tiny, the same as the garden to house, and no i don't have a big garden. There are far worse crimes that get far less coverage and attack than this seems to get. Maybe it's just me, i don't know.
I'm gunna stop now, coz i feel we just going round in circles now, and i'm not very good at expressing what i actually mean :(
They were 200 yards away from the apartment, which was unlocked, and was not visible to them... hardly the same thing as being in your garden entertaining, and your kids being upstairs.
There are worse crimes, though child neglect is pretty bad in my books, but the McCanns have sought to keep this in the media... hence the coverage.
Chloe O'brien
12-08-2009, 00:54
There was no need for Gerry and Kate to leave those kids alone however far away the restaurant was from the apartment. They were on holiday with a group of friends who also had children, were their kids locked up in their apratment alone as well? if so why haven't they been charged with neglect? It was 7pm on a hot summer evening and they were on holiday those kids should have been outside running around not shoved to bed. If the McCann's wanted some time alone they had plenty of friends they could have asked to babysit. It makes you wonder if it wasn't the first time that they had left their kids alone, but I guess we will never know until Maddy is found.
Hannelene
12-08-2009, 07:09
If she is ever found is it likely after all this time that she will be found alive?
They were 200 yards away from the apartment, which was unlocked, and was not visible to them... hardly the same thing as being in your garden entertaining, and your kids being upstairs.
There are worse crimes, though child neglect is pretty bad in my books, but the McCanns have sought to keep this in the media... hence the coverage.
PB.. the distance, as they kept saying, was 50 metres... this is as the crow flies and they could only see the top apartment which isn't the one Madeleine was left alone in with her brother and sister.. the actually distance (cause they couldn't walk straight across the 50 meters unless they can walk on water and climb fences) was 120 meters.. does anyone know who has a back garden that big???
There was no need for Gerry and Kate to leave those kids alone however far away the restaurant was from the apartment. They were on holiday with a group of friends who also had children, were their kids locked up in their apratment alone as well? if so why haven't they been charged with neglect? It was 7pm on a hot summer evening and they were on holiday those kids should have been outside running around not shoved to bed. If the McCann's wanted some time alone they had plenty of friends they could have asked to babysit. It makes you wonder if it wasn't the first time that they had left their kids alone, but I guess we will never know until Maddy is found.
One of the quotes from Gerry (or maybe it was Kate) in regards to this was "It was our holiday too".. like the kids were an afterthought.
There was no need for Gerry and Kate to leave those kids alone however far away the restaurant was from the apartment. They were on holiday with a group of friends who also had children, were their kids locked up in their apratment alone as well? if so why haven't they been charged with neglect? It was 7pm on a hot summer evening and they were on holiday those kids should have been outside running around not shoved to bed. If the McCann's wanted some time alone they had plenty of friends they could have asked to babysit. It makes you wonder if it wasn't the first time that they had left their kids alone, but I guess we will never know until Maddy is found.
One of the quotes from Gerry (or maybe it was Kate) in regards to this was "It was our holiday too".. like the kids were an afterthought.
Some people are perhaps too selfish to have kids.
There was no need for Gerry and Kate to leave those kids alone however far away the restaurant was from the apartment. They were on holiday with a group of friends who also had children, were their kids locked up in their apratment alone as well? if so why haven't they been charged with neglect? It was 7pm on a hot summer evening and they were on holiday those kids should have been outside running around not shoved to bed. If the McCann's wanted some time alone they had plenty of friends they could have asked to babysit. It makes you wonder if it wasn't the first time that they had left their kids alone, but I guess we will never know until Maddy is found.
One of the quotes from Gerry (or maybe it was Kate) in regards to this was "It was our holiday too".. like the kids were an afterthought.
That was Kate, early on "It was our holiday too you know". What a piece of work.
Who leaves their young kids alone in an apartment in a foreign country so they can go out and enjoy themselves? Answer Bad Parents
I dont think after all this time she is alive
Hannelene
13-08-2009, 20:37
This story is so sad :(
i cant see why he waited 2 yrs, surely his wife wouldnt have minded if he was only talking to this woman?
Thats what I thought when I read it in the newspaper, I mean thats a very poor excuse not to come forward with information
tammyy2j
15-11-2010, 12:12
Kate and Gerry McCann have signed a deal to write a book about the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.
After a major bidding war, Transworld won the rights to the couple's account of how the little girl vanished on a family holiday to Portugal in 2007 and their efforts to find her.
All proceeds from the book will go to the McCanns' official fund to look for Madeleine, which had been in danger of running out next year.
Precise details of the publishing deal have not been released, but a source said it included a "substantial" advance and "enhanced royalties", giving the couple a bigger share of profits from sales.
The book, simply entitled Madeleine, will be published on April 28 next year to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the child's disappearance.
Mrs McCann, 42, said: "My reason for writing is simple - to give an account of the truth.
"Publishing this book has been a very difficult decision and is one that we have taken after much deliberation and with a very heavy heart.
"However, in the last few months, with the depletion of Madeleine's Fund, it is a decision that has virtually been taken out of our hands.
"Every penny we raise through its sales will be spent on our search for Madeleine. Nothing is more important to us than finding our little girl."
Her husband, also 42, added: "We are hopeful that this book may help the investigation to find Madeleine in other ways too."
"Mrs McCann, 42, said: "My reason for writing is simple - to give an account of the truth."
This is to combat the book written by the investigating officer "the truth of the lie" which they failed to have banned. McCann's have given their account time and time again to any media who listens to them, I doubt the book would have anything new to offer.
no1abbafan
15-11-2010, 18:42
The only truth they can tell is they left 3 children unattended in an apartment while they ate and drank with friends, even tho there was a babysitting service available. Sorry, its a terrible thing to happen to anybody, but the blame lies sorely with them. If they were parents from a tower block, living on benefits then social services would have been all over them like a rash - only because they are doctors did they escape that. I may sound harsh, I dont mean too because I have children and can't imagine what they are going through still.
Sleuth tells cops: Maddie is in US.. I know who took her
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3418713/Paedophile-ring-which-snatched-Madeleine-McCann-took-a-dozen-other-children-investigator-claims.html
McCann's spokesperson not so sure about this claim: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Madeleine-McCann-Family-Spokesman-Sceptical-Of-US-Abduction-Claims/Article/201102315936274?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Te aser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15936274_Madeleine_McCann%3A_Family_Sp okesman_Sceptical_Of_US_Abduction_Claims
And besides.. if this guy really wanted to find Maddie and keep her safe, why blab to the papers?? surely that is a death warrant for her??
Probably some nobody looking for his 15 minutes of fame
tammyy2j
28-07-2011, 14:10
Madeleine McCann's family has played down a possible sighting of the missing child in India.
Local police are said to be investigating after a British woman spotted a six-year-old girl who appeared to resemble Madeleine in a market in the city of Leh in northern India on Friday night.
A French woman and a Belgian man who were with the girl insisted they were her biological parents but police took their passports to check, the Chandigarh Tribune newspaper reported.
It is understood that the private detectives hired by Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, to continue looking for their daughter are not currently planning to travel to India but will liaise with local police.
McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "The private investigators currently searching for Madeleine have been aware of this report from India for several days, and have been working to establish its veracity.
"So far unfortunately there is nothing to suggest that this sighting is any more credible than any of the many others we have had over the last four-plus years."
Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family's holiday flat in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3 2007 as her parents dined with friends nearby.
Portuguese detectives, helped by officers from Leicestershire Police, carried out a massive investigation into her disappearance.
But the official inquiry was formally shelved in July 2008 and since then no police force has been actively looking for the missing child, who would now be eight.
Scotland Yard launched a review of the original investigation in May after a request from Home Secretary Theresa May supported by Prime Minister David Cameron. Hundreds of possible sightings of the little girl around the world have been reported since she went missing, but so far they have all come to nothing.
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/madeleine-sighting-played-down-16029205.html#ixzz1TPAef9EK
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