Madeleine McCann’s Parents: How Do You Feel?
MADELEINE McCann is missing. And the News of the World is watching the parents.
Gerry and Kate McCann are back in Portugal.
“There are a number of scenarios and it’s safe to say we’ve thought about all of them,” says he.
“Of course we have considered Maddie is dead. But there is still hope. You might argue that the hope is diminishing as time goes on but there is still an investigation and that is still active.
“We will not give up until there is absolutely no hope left. We have got to believe she’s alive and out there somewhere. If you give up hope you’re basically saying she’s dead.
“But everything is pure speculation and that leads us into negative thoughts — and one thing that we don’t think about for any length of time is who might have her, and why they have her.
“The feeling is like having a bereavement or being diagnosed with cancer.”
Says Kate McCann: “We still have hope because we don’t have any news to suggest otherwise.”
But there is no news to suggest anything. All we know is that Madeleine McCann is missing. Who cannot see the McCanns appearing on the TV years from now, the parents of that girl who disappeared?
The public spectacle is what “Maddie” has become. Our Maddie. But there are some who say the parents are in some way to blame. The Anorak message boards and comment pages are full of words saying just this.
Gerry has heard. And fresh from an audience with the Pope, he is back in the confession box, relaying his most private thoughts to his confidant, the NOTW.
Says Gerry: “We have never subconsciously or consciously thought ‘It was Kate’s fault’ or ‘It was my fault‘.
“We’re a couple in this. We are responsible parents. When something terrible happens in any walk of life people look to blame people. What we need to look at is the person who took her. It’s not our fault.”
But we have no clue who took her. The police are not even certain she was taken at all. What proof?
So we will stay with watching the parents. We will study their grief. And we will listen in as the media ask them, “So Kate and Gerry McCann, parents of missing toddler Madeleine, how do you feel?”
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:15 am
I feel sad & sorry for all. Hope this offends no one from Cult McCann.
We are all hoping for a “miracle” for Madeleine.
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:31 am
The UK Central Bank today announced it was to recall 87,000,000 one pound coins from current circulation over the next three weeks.
These will be replaced by a like number of fresh-minted ‘Maddalions’ - the queen’s head being replaced by a portrait of Madeleine McCann.
Despite the uk6,000,000 cost to the exchequer and the extraordinary nature of the break with tradition, Lord McSuchandsuch, a distant ninth cousin relative of the snatched infant, and chairman of the Mint, said of the action: “We just want to find Maddie. Although we are the only nation in the world to use sterling we are hoping that someone may by mistake take one of these coins with them on holiday overseas where it may just prove to be a breakthough in this terrible heart rending case.”
Discussions with the central Euro bank are ongoing regarding enforced changing of all denominations of the currency of all EU members to show Maddie on both sides of all coins and notes. Sources said…
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:41 am
Spare a thought for what little Madeleine’s is going through, frightened and just wanting to feel her parent’s arms around her.
You would do anything to get your children back, just think of the nightmare Mr & Mrs McCann are going through waking up each morning knowing it’s real. What would you have them do? Sit at home with the twins!
Shouldn’t people be thinking how great the publicity and awareness is for all those children that have been abducted and not found! Instead of asking why the McCann family are getting special treatment and more publicity then all the other children.
If being anxious about a little 4yr old that’s been abducted and made the whole world sit up and take notice! Then consider me in Cult McCann.
Mr and Mrs McCann have my respect and I hope they can remain strong for Madeleine’s sake.