Saddly though if the police in Portugal don’t charge them there is nothing that can be done by the police in this country. However that said there is nothing to stop social services investigating their past and future fitness as parents.

I also think that given their professions and the fact that they are legally required to report suspected cases of neglect and abuse, they should be struck of as they are hardly likely to report anyone for neglect when they themselves are guilty of it. That just puts other children in danger.

The fact is while we discuss this case and other people are hanging posters and searching for Madeleine Mr. McCann explains how he keeps up his jogging. It is not that he is jogging that is a problem but how that comes across to others causing speculation. Sorry, but as time goes on and I read articles about Mrs. Fen’s observations and so on I am not impressed. I doubt the McCanns will try to sue Mrs. Fenn for her statements.

I don’t know how long it takes to Spain from the Algarve but it is possible someone could have been close to Spain with Madeleine before the police were called? I have seen various reports about the time the police were called but also considering the times of the checks on children and the length of time to Spain.

Response to Diane An error in judgement is one thing one night but as the routine continued, child crying enough to bring attention to neighbors, hotel worried, a back area unable to view from Tapas, etc. etc. all while having a service at the complex to help with children. A big mistake in judgement possibly ignoring red flags. I don’t see how it is fair to question the opinion of people who make remarks or at least that is a hard position to take at this point.

All a sad state of affairs but I haven’t given up hope that Madeleine could be alive.

I remember when my children were babies…those rare occasions when they would become inconsolable about something. They would sob and sob, becoming so distraught that they started to hiccup…. Faces red, little bodies burning hot and their hair plastered to their heads with sweat. And me holding them close and talking to them until it peaked and they gradually calmed down. Then sponging them down, remaking the bed, and settling them back down to sleep.

According to Mrs Fenn Madeleine cried for one and a quarter hours on the evening of the 1st May, and only stopped when her parents returned. Can you imagine the state that that tiny little girl was in by then? ONE HOUR AND 15 MINUTES - a lifetime for any child

And Yet … they still went out and left her again.

The McCanns dined out every night of their holiday while their poor children slept alone. They are lucky that this happened on the night they chose to dine in the tapas bar and not Tuesday for example when they dined in Chaplins, below their beloved church, near the beach, 8 times the distance away. They never once checked on their children as they claim, ask the staff!
Talk to elderly Mrs. Senn who lives above and she’ll tell you on that particular Tuesday night she had to sit listening to one of the children “screeming, crying” from 22:30 til 23:45. They went to dinner around 19:00h. Those poor, poor children.

Yes, they should be prosecuted. How DARE they preach to other parents and try to teach us safety measures to ensure our children are safe from predators? How DARE they take the positions of heroes? How DARE they commit this crime upon poor Madeleine? Yes, they did it. If a child was abandoned on a rock surrounded by ocean, fell in and was eaten by a shark, who would you prosecute? The shark? They delivered their baby to her predator. I fear for Sean and Amelie. They haven’t “learnt their lesson” as some idiots keep saying. They deny doing anything wrong and still galavant around the globe doing their holier than thou parade while their remaining children are left to (I’m positive) much more competent care. Why did they use the creche all day every day and decline the night time services? Why, when staff got worried did they also decline the monitoring services? What were they afraid of us monitoring? Stop protecting these monsters. Stop raising them to saintliness. They’re criminals. Why are people so PC? If they had been Portuguese they’d have been charged within hours and their twins removed from them. I just hope that whoever took Madeleine took her because they witnessed her parents’ total lack of care and thought she deserved better. There are lunatics out there who’d do such a thing. We have 2 seperate issues here, please stop getting them confused. We have a poor missing little baby who has been taken away from her family. We have a complete separate issue: two so called parents who committed crime (on a regular basis). YES they should be prosecuted. YES, YES, YES.

The point of all the publicity, so we were told, was to keep Madeleine in the public eye … well she IS still in the public eye - courtesy of forums like this across the net. It doesn’t matter whether each contributor supports the McCann parents or despises them, we are all here because of Madeleine, and because of a desire to know what REALLY happened to her. So the McCanns’ stated goal has been achieved - why then are they bothered about what people say about them? If they are truly innocent then they have nothing to worry about do they?

“If I lost a child in those circumstances I wouldnt be jetting off to see the pope etc”

I’m no fan of these people either but it’s easy to preach about what we would have done differently. This closing the stable door after the horse has bolted isn’t really helping. No-one can watch their child every minute of the day and there are thousands of Kates and Gerrys who aren’t in the news today because in the moments they weren’t with their children they just happened to get lucky.

In the circumstances, K & G have made the decision to keep Madeleine’s press profile as high as they can and while these exercises aren’t to everyone’s taste - don’t know about you but I’m getting the feeling there’s a bit of ‘Madeleine Fatigue’ creeping in - I think they’re too focused to care.

Imagine for one horrible moment it’s YOUR child that’s missing. Without resorting to criticism of what the McCann have or haven’t done and looking purely at the present and future, what would YOU be doing to effect your child’s safe return?

The Police and the Civil Guard do not have indications that the girl who disappeared in Portugal has been in Spanish territory as claimed by the parents of Madeleine in several Spanish papers.

Police and Civil Guard at this moment do not maintain a line of investigation on the possible presence of the British girl Madeleine McCann in Spain or as to the passage of the child through the country at any time subsequent to her disappearance, said sources from the units of both Bodies in charge of the disappearance.

In several interviews published today in Spanish papers, the parents of Madeleine point to the possibility that their daughter is in Spain and say that the Spanish Forces of Security “are involved” in the investigation. However, both the Police and the Civil Guard maintain that no line of investigation has been opened in that sense.

http://www.canalsur.es/informa…..a?id=23147

Moderation -

For someone who claims to want to see ‘fairness’ you can be exremely biased. The translations that I post come from far more sources than just Sol, as you are well aware, and are not translated by myself, but by native Portuguese, living in Portugal. The British Media are biased in this case, as I’m sure are the Portuguese - However, most posters on this site have free access to English language stories and can search for and read them for themselves. I merely seek to offer a balance by posting the Portuguese and Spanish offerings… no doubt the truth lies somewhere in between, as in so much of life, and I am sure that posters here have the intelligence to read both and decide for themselves!

To personally attack me, without provokation, merely for copy and pasting translations is uncalled for.

Response to Hazel It is hard to figure why the parents want to much public attention if they knew what happened. Early on they could have left Portugal with her listed as missing without any problem it seemed??? That is the part hard to figure. If the parents knew then when will this all end and how?