RIP ME TO SHREDS!

I hope she is found soon.

He was trying to catch a plane and still needed to pick up his wife in her mom’s house so they could hop on their plane and spend new years eve with friends in Las Vegas while his kids enjoy their once cancelled ski trip with grandma(his ex-mother-in-law.)

An hour before New Year’s Eve, Jacob’s ex mother in law called the police saying she “suspects” that her grandchildren are home alone. She contacted the media on how his ex-son-in-law left his kids to go to Las Vegas with his wife. Then coached her 2 grandkids against their biologic dad and his wife. Due to the media frenzy and public outrage,the parents were arrested and thrown in jail as soon as their plane landed back home. The kids were given to the melodramatic ex-mom-in-law.

Months later, in a separate trial, it was found through more reliable witnesses and further evidence that his ex-mother-in-law was behind all these and she later admitted to having contact with the couple and kids all through out the time she said she “suspect” they were left home alone. T

I guess the question here is, if someone as trustworthy as grandma could use her own grandkids as bait against her ex-son-in-law , which trustworthy person in madeleine’s life could have put her in danger, maybe unintentionally, when this was actually hate crime directed towards her parents?

But the two things which are patently obvious to anyone with half a brain are: a) that the media are making a sentimental soap opera out of the ‘little Maddie’ story which people are loving being extras in, as they did after Di’s death, Dando’s death etc.

And b) that yes, it WAS the parents’ fault, whether they are going through guilt and remorse now or not. I wouldn’t have left my daughter alone in a strange place at that age for even five minutes unless I was in the building, let alone for thirty. For boganhound to say that ‘every 30 minutes that’s way more than enough’ shows his sheer ignorance about the responsibilities of being a parent.

The fact is that if the McCanns wanted the kind of holiday they clearly did - living it up in local restaurants - they should have left their children at home with grandparents or other relatives. What would babies have got out of a holiday like this?

Kev puts it in a nutshell when he says that whether someone who would leave one and three year old children for as long as the McCanns did are criminals or not, one thing is certain - they sure as hell are bloody awful parents. And this poor child is paying the price.

If I took my girlfriend to a restaurant, had a few bevvies, motored home and killed someone (HER, even) as a result of recklessness, I’d be prosecuted. And I’d damn well deserve it too. I’d be in mental and emotional agony for the rest of my life- would my pain and suffering as a result of my own negligence be enough?

Sure, the crucial difference is that there is a third party here. It isn’t Madeleine’s parents’ fault that she was abducted, the ABDUCTORS(S) himself/herself/themselves are responsible for that.

But leave your kids unattended and out of view in a room in a foreign country with an unlocked door, and you probably should, yes, be considered a criminal. You’re sure as hell a bloody awful parent.

Kev