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margaret*e · ‎12-03-2017

Should the MCCanns still be getting funding for their search?.

I know if it was my child or grandchild I would be pushing just as much, I might be wrong but it seems to me there has been more money and publicity than for any other missing child.

http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2017/03/11/madeleine-mccann-police-given-funds-to-extend-probe-for-another...

littleme61_6 · ‎12-03-2017

I of course can only try to imagine the inner feelings of any parent who have no idea where their child is, be it alive or sadly found to be deceased. I so hope Madeleine is found alive.

As the Home Office have granted and given this money, then for sure it is to be used for the purpose.

Personally had I taken children anywhere on holiday, then no way on this earth would I go anywhere without them. When they are tucked up in bed I would be there then as I would have been at home. I reckon that thought though of when they left their 3 children that evening is hounding them to this very day.

jd.linklater · ‎12-03-2017

Over £11m spent in the last ten years. You have to feel for the parents being in a kind of limbo for this length of time but it makes me wonder how much longer the public purse can afford to carry on with this operation. What happens when the latest £85k is spent, do they just keep re-applying for more? And for how long?

right-then-petal · ‎12-03-2017

what i ca'nt understand is why they were not taken to court over neclect

nobody in the right sences leaves not one but more children alone and go,s out

anyone else would be taken to court why not them

Petal

littleme61_6 · ‎12-03-2017

I have just looked on google to see if I could come across anything as to why the McCann's were not prosecuted for leaving their three children alone that night.

I came across this whereby the Portugese thought it was a 'Peculiar Custom of people in Britain to do that'

MADELEINE McCann’s parents were not prosecuted for abandoning their daughter
while they dined near by because of “compassion”, law chiefs have claimed.

Portuguese officials thought Brits had “peculiar customs” where it was “natural
for them to leave the two-year-old twin siblings and the other
three-year-old child alone”.

According
to the Daily Star, Mr Pereira said: “The error was not constituting the
parents as arguidos for the crime of abandonment.

“At the beginning there was an extraordinary and ridiculous theory that
said the English have very peculiar cultural customs.

“And therefore it was natural for them to leave the two-year-old twin siblings
and the other three-year-old child alone in a bedroom for the parents to go
out a few hundred metres away to socialise with their friends.’’

evoman3957 · ‎12-03-2017

After so much publicity regarding this case,the government / police are between a rock and a hard place over the further funding of this investigation. For some reason, in an article I read, the police now reckon that they are close to arresting somebody over the kidnapping of Madeleine McCann. What's transpired, after all this time, to make them say that; I don't know and I doubt whether we will know..........unless something comes of it. The only time I would let my 5 year old Grandson out of my sight, would be if I was standing outside a toilet cubicle door; while he was inside having a wee...........that's it...........but we're all different..........that's why some have more regrets in life than others.

doll_faced_me · ‎12-03-2017

fallen-archie · ‎12-03-2017

I struggle with this one, my first thoughts are for the child and then for the parents, both profesionals and yet under severe suspicion. If any of you have seen the rantings of Katie Hopkins either on social media or on her radio show she has been hyper critical of the parents accusing them of leaving the child to be found, Trouble is we do not know and following a series of failures by the portugese police in the manner in which they processed the case it leaves too many unanswered questions. The child deserves to be found and those responsible punished.

upthecreekyetagain · ‎12-03-2017

Whether or not more money should be spent on this case is really down to whether the police think it is worthwhile I suppose. They have to be in the best position to judge.

With regards to the parents leaving the children in the room whilst they had a meal in the same 'complex' I'm sure I'm not alone in remembering holiday camps in the 60s and 70s when it was accepted practice to leave children alone in chalets - does nobody remember the "baby crying in chalet number 123" notices that used to be held up in the cinema, theatre, bars and restaurants.

When 5 I walked to school on my own and when going out at the weekend being told, 'tea at 5".

Apart from the traffic I'm really not convinced that we live in more dangerous times than we did 50 years ago.

Deno thread on FHG

fallen-archie · ‎12-03-2017

Ditto to all of the above!

cee-dee · ‎12-03-2017

Getting away a bit from what the OP is trying to say, I don't believe it's as safe a world for kids as when I was five.

After a short time of being taken a mile to school, I had to walk. It was uphill to start with, then down the other side and along a twisting country lane with no pavement out of sight of any houses before entering the next village.

You'd be lucky to see a car then but today an adult would be liable to get run over never mind kids of five.

Quite apart from that, today people are more mobile even though there's loads of cameras around, someone could be 50 miles away in an hour or so.

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

upthecreekyetagain · ‎13-03-2017

There is no doubt that there is far more traffic now than there was 50 years ago but were kids safer left alone in holiday chalets than they are now? It was also a common sight to see babies left in prams outside a closed front door, were they in less danger than now?

When I was a little older, 8 or 9, I had to catch two different buses to get to school - it wasn't in the least unusual to be offered a lift when waiting at a bus stop in the rain by complete strangers. I hitch hiked all over the UK when in my early teens. I don't remember being afraid of strangers and yet now we are told to teach our children not to talk to strangers and certainly never to get into a vehicle with a stranger.

According to NSPCC figures over the last few tears an average of about 200 children are murdered or die from abuse - the vast majority of these deaths are caused by family members - murders/abductions by strangers are exceedingly rare. Even these figures pale in comparison to the number of children killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents, not all as pedestrians.

Deno thread on FHG

margaret*e · ‎13-03-2017

Even if in the very unlikely event that she was to be found now there's no happy ending, she's 13 now, after 10 years her family will be strangers to her sadly.

cee-dee · ‎13-03-2017

She won't be found alive though.

It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.

littleme61_6 · ‎13-03-2017

My thoughts too Marge. 10 years to an adult is nothing really, but to a child who was nearly 4 when 'taken', she would only know the people she is now with, a bond most likely has been formed. Also she could speak a totally different language.

If she is found of course, and then reunited with her parents, and her two siblings, what on earth could all that do to her mentally.

Of course where there is hope there is that chance she will be found soon, but after all this time it seems doubtful.