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?”
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January 10th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Clearly this is a closed case.
The daughter of negligent parents who, through their positions as doctors, will evade the natural justice fact that they, as they have admitted, abandoned their daughter.
It would be accepted that a lone mother on benefit who goes out for a night on the town is irresponsible and deserves the prison sentence she gets when something untoward happens to her 6month - 5 year old son/daughter.
Yes Madeline is dead and anyone with a brain is aware of this.
It is a definite problem with society when justice is dependant on individuals status. This is NOT true justice and british justice has had this flaw embedded in it for centuries.
This will not stop the mccanns from bleeding sympathisers though.
June 6th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I am annoyed at Kate McCanns remark that ‘It was like being diagnosed for Cancer’
What an awful thing to say .She is hurting but as a cancer patient myself I wouldn’t dream Icould come close to imagining how she feels however much I am sad for the fact Madeleine is missing The two horrible problems cancer & a missing child are totally different crosses to bear & I cannot understand why one would use this comparison at all I like all posters care deeply that Madeleine will be safely found
September 21st, 2007 at 12:00 am
Missing for more than 100 days, unless the person that took her is a very caring pedo, she’s pretty dead by now. Not much point in looking. But most of the medics I’ve met think the McCanns, like many doctors, dope up their kids with sleeping tablets (that’s why they didn’t bother with the free creche etc), and unfortunately when they were going out for dinner both mummy and daddy gave maddie the pills. That explains how the blood got in the car 4 weeks later (the corpse was probably oozing a bit by then, gross I know). And that explains why the portuguese police couldn’t give a toss about finding the killer. They know it was the McCanns, the McCanns know they did it, and their punishment is living with the guilt for the rest of their lives.
September 11th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
wish to comment on this delicate case…i believe that there is more than just a missing young girl here,i suspected from the very begining that the parents where involved,as the so called propaganda for the missing girl was too far out stretched from all teh missing children cases in the whole world history,automatically that tells me that they(the parents) have something sinister to hide,so as cover and back up they published her face all over newspapers,screen,internet etc.etc.
unfortunately,i do not see that this poor girl might be found as i think they disposed of her body immediately somehwere in europe,remember that the borders in europe are not guarded anymore,even so,they had all the time to hide her tiny body somewhere….,where????
They are the ones that know that.
I have a very bad feeling about this and i hope thatthey are only doctors and not surgeons….
i beg the authorities and police to squeeze these people good,very good,as this is very unhuman,and NO THEY ARE NOT INNOCENT BUT VERY GUILTY AND SHOULD NEVER BE TAKEN TO COURT,THEY SHOULD BE LOCKED UP TILL THEY BECOME DUST….sorry for this
September 8th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
irresponsible parents, completely
what person in their right mind would leave two 2-year olds and a 3 year old in an unlocked apartment, by themselves, in a foreign country, at night.
if they werent as well off and didnt have as much money, they would be getting the blame for neglect, but oh no, just because theyre doctors and can afford the publicity, everyone must think theyre so much better than that.
they deserve to be suspects
i think madeleine needs some new parents!
i cant bare them any longer, they were asking for it!
September 7th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Looks like the cynics among us may all be proved right as the parents are now offically ’suspects’ - yet the family spokesperson (i thought only large businesses had these….oops i forgot about mccanns LTD! with 1 million turnover!) is trying to steamroll this with the pathetic reason that it affords them greater legal protection…..protection from whom i ask? - the prosecution team?
sometimes truth is stranger than fiction……………….
August 10th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Hear, hear, Sam.
I hope before this is all over both are arrested, charged, convicted, spend time in prison, and have their medical licenses revoked.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Firstly, can I just say that the only person I support on this is Madeleine herself. She is the only one who is suffering or who has suffered through no fault of her own. Secondly, can I just ask something? If you were to leave your child with a child minder whilst you go out and that child minder decides to up and leave your children while she goes off with her boyfriend/friend whatever for the evening and something terrible happened to your child, what would you do? who would you blame? I am thinking that anyone with an ounce of sense would blame the child minder for putting their child in a position where something terrible could happen to them. Am I not right? I am sure that Gerry and Kate are hurting, but I dont know whether they are hurting more because they are missing their little girl or more because they are feeling guilty knowing that she could still be with them if they haven’t been so selfish and left them on their own.
June 17th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
hi i was just wondering, are these the only higher up, doctors to lose a child, i have never seen such publicity for one child, im not sayin is a bad thing but shouldn’t this much fuss be made for every child? whether u have money a good whatever, isn’t does make you love your child any more then the average joe. ifeel sorry for the familys who lost a child and has never been returned to them, i bet there sat thinking maybe if all this was done for our child we could of been re united! my heart goes out to anyone who has gone through this not just the mccanns.x
June 11th, 2007 at 1:29 am
Yes, and note the the involvement of Cipriano in the murder…and the successfull conclusion of the 2004 “disappearance”.vanishing case..
“Chief Madeleine detective charged over ‘beating’ of suspect in another missing girl case
Is he still hunting Madeleine? Goncalo Amaral has not been suspended but it was unclear whether he was still on the case
Cipriano was convicted of murder and jailed, along with her brother Joao, even though Joana’s body was never found.
…Goncalo Amaral, co-ordinator of the Policia Judiciara in Portimao, Algarve, is one of five men accused of “scenes of aggression” against Leonor Cipriano, whose nine-year-old daughter, Joana, disappeared in September 2004.
The little girl’s body has never been found but Cipriano and her brother, Joao, were charged and convicted of her murder.
She went missing from her home in Figueira, not far from where four-year-old Madeleine was abducted in Praia da Luz 38 days ago.
The alleged attack on Cipriano occurred when she was questioned over Joana’s apparent abduction. It is claimed the suspect was left with bruises all over her face and body, according to local newspaper Jornal de Noticias….”
June 10th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Chief Madeleine detective charged over ‘beating’ of suspect in another missing girl case
Is he still hunting Madeleine? Goncalo Amaral has not been suspended but it was unclear whether he was still on the case
Cipriano was convicted of murder and jailed, along with her brother Joao, even though Joana’s body was never found.
A photograph of Cipriano’s face covered in bruises following her police interview has been published in Portuguese newspapers.
Now Mr Amaral has himself become an “arguido” - Portuguese for suspect.
Embarrassingly, police still do not have any arguidos in their Madeleine hunt apart from Robert Murat, who looks increasingly likely to be cleared of any involvement.
The bizarre development caps a miserable week for the Portuguese force following sustained criticism of their bungling efforts to find Gerry and Kate McCann’s little girl.
Joana vanished in September 2004 from her home in Figueira, seven miles from Praia da Luz where Madeleine was abducted 38 days ago.
The alleged attack on Joana’s mother occurred when she was questioned without a lawyer over her daughter’s apparent abduction.
It is claimed she was left with bruises all over her face and body, according to the newspaper Jornal de Noticias.
She lodged a formal complaint about her treatment which was followed up by the Ministerio Publico - or District Attorney’s department.
Now the department has charged three officers with torture, a fourth with omission of evidence and a fifth with falsification of documents.
It is not known which charge applies to Mr Amaral because a spokesman would not specify which officers had been charged with which offence.
Police sources said Mr Amaral was “very angry” about the allegasuspendedtions and was considering taking action against the Ministerio Publico.
“He is very professional and has had a lot of success in solving cases,” the source said. “He is very upset because reporters never speak of these successes.”
Mr Amaral, who is in his late 40s, was charged in the Algarve, while the other four were charged in Lisbon.
He is thought not to have been from work and it was unclear last night whether he was still working on the Madeleine case.
A mystery caller who claimed to know Madeleine’s whereabouts was yesterday exposed as a conman who tormented her parents simply to steal reward money.
Spanish police took a call from a man using an Argentinian mobile phone last week.
British officials considered his claims credible enough for the McCanns’ flight from Berlin to Amsterdam to be delayed for three hours amid frantic efforts to re-establish contact with the man.
But now police have traced the call to a sick “professional thief” in the Argentine city of Cordoba.
He had been trying to claim £500,000 from Madeleine’s Fund - the money donated by wellwishers to help her parents continue their worldwide search.
The McCanns have vowed to stay in Portugal until “at least the end of the summer” if Madeleine is not found. They were house-hunting yesterday, planning to move out of their temporary accommodation.
June 10th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Oh! and I found this on another thread, police don’t have a very good track record!
I think this case has opened a can of worms. Did you know only five months ago a little 3yr old girl called Carolina Santos of similar appearance to Madeleine, was led away by a man thought to be Moroccan just half an hour from Praia da Luz. Luckily Carolina’s mother came out to check on her when she saw her daughter being led away by this man, she said she shouted out her daughters name and Carolina stopped and turned towards her and then the man disappeared around the corner.
Apparently Mr and Mrs Santos reported the incident to police, but were told they could not make a formal complaint as no crime had been committed! The Portuguese police are now investigating the attempted abduction of Carolina. In my opinion Madeleine’s case has brought this about because of all the media attention.
The Portuguese police have also opened 31 new cases of children that had been abducted last year, involving 19 girls and 12 boys.
Also in the Canary Islands seven-year-old Yeremi disappeared. He was the second child that has gone missing in mysterious circumstances. The police investigators now believe Yeremi Vargas was kidnapped from his front garden by a sex offender, and are investigating the alibis of the “100 sex offenders” who live on the island. The report says that 28 of them are British residents who are on the police register for crimes of this type committed in the UK.
June 10th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Portugal’s elite linked to paedophile ring
Abuse was reportedly going on at Lisbon orphanage for 20 years
Giles Tremlett in Lisbon
Wednesday November 27, 2002
The Guardian
A scandal over a paedophile ring run from a state orphanage gripped Portugal yesterday as it threatened to engulf diplomats, media personalities and senior politicians.
Photographs of unnamed senior government officials with young boys from Lisbon’s Casa Pia orphanage were among the evidence reportedly available to police after they arrested a former orphanage employee called Carlos Silvino.
A number of former residents, and the mother of one boy who is still there, have denounced sexual attacks on children at what is known as Lisbon’s most famous orphanage.
Article continues
Mr Silvino, it was claimed, abused children himself and procured boys for a powerful group of clients.
He has publicly denied the allegations and was expected to repeat that denial at a closed-door bail hearing in Lisbon yesterday.
What has most shocked the Portuguese have been the revelations that systematic sexual abuse of children at the home had allegedly been going on for more than 20 years and had been known to police and other authorities for most of that time.
A former president, General Ramalho Eanes, was allegedly among those who knew about abuse at the home but failed to stop it.
The identity of the mysterious group of powerful paedophiles remained a secret yesterday, with only one person prepared to admit she knew at least some of the names.
Former secretary of state for families, Teresa Costa Macedo, said she had sent a dossier containing photographs and testimonies from children to the police 20 years ago but they had done nothing about it, while she was subjected to a campaign of threats.
“He [Silvino] was just one element in a huge paedophile network that involved important people in our country,” Mrs Costa Macedo explained in a newspaper interview. “It wasn’t just him. He was a procurer of children for well-known people who range from diplomats and politicians to people linked to the media.”
The material sent to the police, which yesterday appeared to have been lost, was damning proof of the activities of the paedophile ring, Mrs Costa Macedo said.
“There are photographs, an account of the methods used to spirit children out of the orphanage and testimonies of a number of children,” she explained.
Mrs Costa Macedo said that many of the photographs were found at the house of a Portuguese diplomat in the town of Estoril, 20 miles from Lisbon. Four children who had gone missing from the orphanage were discovered at the house, where they had spent several days allegedly under lock and key.
President Eanes was introduced to five boys who told him of the abuse occurring at the orphanage in 1980 but failed to act on it, according to Mrs Costa Macedo.
There was no suggestion that General Eanes, a popular and respected figure who did not comment on the allegations yesterday, was involved in the paedophile ring.
Portuguese police insisted yesterday they had no record of the documents sent to them by Mrs Costa Macedo.
She said she had been the target of a campaign of intimidation to make her stop investigating the case.
“I received anonymous threats, by phone and post. They said they would kill me, flay me and a lot of other things,” she said.
That campaign had started again yesterday, she said, with threatening phone calls made to her home.
Portugal has increasingly been under the scrutiny of anti-paedophile groups who have denounced its lax laws and uninterested courts for creating a paedophiles’ paradise in Europe.
Belgian and Dutch paedophile groups are reported to have operated in Portugal, with foreigners travelling to the island of Madeira to seek out young children.
Investigators from the Swiss-based Innocence in Danger group, which claims children regularly disappear from the poorer streets of Portuguese towns and cities, say they too have been harassed and threatened.
Mr Silvino claimed his accusers were making up their allegations. “It is all lies,” he said.
The orphanage’s director and deputy director were sacked on Monday as the government pledged to clear up the case as soon as possible.
June 10th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Joshua KARNEY has failed to comply with the notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Suspect description
* Forename: Joshua
* Surname: KARNEY
* Street Name: Mark MOFFITT, Devon DANIELS, Aiden or Aaron WIELY, Kieran Arran O’SHEA, James O’SHAUN
* Sex: Male
* Age Range: 25 - 30
* Height: 170 - 175 cm (approx 5′ 8″)
* Build: Slim
* Hair Colour: Brown
* Ethnic appearance: White European
* Distinguishing marks: Strong Dublin accent, pierced left eyebrow, pierced left ear, large birthmark on the centre of his back.
Additional Info: Has hazel coloured eyes
Just check crimestoppers it could be any one of them! Well I mean a face shaped like an egg!!!
June 10th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
The Portuguese police seem to have a successful track record in solving vanished children cases.
Perhaps by attacking the Portuguese police force, attention was diverted away from those staying at the vacation villas?
Due to the total absence of physical evidence of any sort eye-witness sightings, the only confirmation that the child was in the apartment that evening are the parents–who left her unattended for an extended period of time.
Vanished; yes. Snatched; why? Only fellow tourists at the vacation villa should have known that the parents were doctors (and UK doctors are not usually awash in cash) and, expounding upon that further, fellow tourists might also have been aware that the parents customarily left the children unsupervised as they ate their evening meals.
The parent’s friend, who provided the only eye-witness report of anything which might have been untoward (a male carrying a supposedly blanket-wrapped Maddy, but with her pyjamas visible), didn’t even express her viewing to the parents that evening. Again, would that friend be familiar enough with the family to know the pyjamas which the children had and which set of night clothes they wore on each particular night?
Honestly, I can not see what jetting around to European capitals can do to help recover the child. If she was indeed snatched, then whoever did it acted rashly and on the spur of the moment (and carrying a blanket to wrap the child in speaks of preplanning–there is no report of a missing blanket from the vacation apartment), and rashly means mistakes are made, or else it was carefully preplanned and hidey holes and onward transportation was already in place (and why go to all that trouble for a vacationing child, when an outsider wouldn’t know of the length of stay, the evening plans, etc.).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6698423,00.html
Madeleine officer on attack charges
Press Association
Sunday June 10, 2007 2:43 PM
A senior Portuguese police officer working on the Madeleine McCann case has been charged over an attack on the mother of another missing girl.
Goncalo Amaral, co-ordinator of the Policia Judiciara in Portimao, Algarve, is one of five men accused of “scenes of aggression” against Leonor Cipriano, whose nine-year-old daughter, Joana, disappeared in September 2004.
The little girl’s body has never been found but Cipriano and her brother, Joao, were charged and convicted of her murder.
She went missing from her home in Figueira, not far from where four-year-old Madeleine was abducted in Praia da Luz 38 days ago.
The alleged attack on Cipriano occurred when she was questioned over Joana’s apparent abduction. It is claimed the suspect was left with bruises all over her face and body, according to local newspaper Jornal de Noticias.
The Ministerio Publico (MP), or District Attorney, charged three PJ officers with torture, a fourth with omission of evidence and a fifth with falsification of documents.
The MP did not reveal who had been charged with what offence.
Police sources said Mr Amaral was “very angry” about the allegations and was considering taking action against the MP.
“He is very professional and has has a lot of success in solving cases. He is very upset because reporters never speak of these successes,” the source said.
It is alleged that the beating took place as Cipriano was questioned without a lawyer, according to the Portuguese Expresso newspaper. She lodged a formal complaint about her treatment which was followed up by the MP.
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June 10th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
The question i would like to ask; was the choice to ignore and publicly criticise the Portuguesse police over the initial stages of the investigation detrimental to this case? Maybe my work ethic would also not be as it should if i was being publicy criticised and ignored. Lets not forget about the blunders involved in the Soham Murders….Maybe we are not the authority we think we are when finding missing children.
June 7th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I think it’s just like a presidential election tour. “Campaign trip”; “stayed on at the British embassy”; “journalists travelling in the eight-seater private jet with the McCanns”; and “It was thought the McCanns might need to go back to the UK to talk to advisers about the call”.
What about the British soldiers dying in Iraq? Let’s provide bread and circuses for the masses!!
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1269394,00.html
Hopes Dashed Over Mystery Call
Updated: 15:09, Thursday June 07, 2007
The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have suffered another setback in the hunt for their daughter after an anonymous phonecall raised hopes.
The mystery telephone call was from a man claiming to know the four-year-old’s whereabouts.
He provided so much detail that Kate and Gerry McCann delayed their campaign trip to Amsterdam.
But Madeleine’s father has since dismissed the news as “nothing of interest”.
The couple had been informed of the potential development while in Germany, where they were appealing to tourists who may have been in the Algarve around the time of the child’s disappearance.
A Spanish police source said: “This did not appear to be a crank call and the information was felt credible enough to warrant the couple being informed immediately.”
It is 35 days since Madeleine was abducted from her bed in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz.
The “credible” call was taken from a man who refused to reveal his identity or nationality and wanted to speak directly to the McCanns, according to a Spanish police source.
It was traced to an unregistered pay-as-you-go phone from an unidentified country but not thought to be Morocco, where a previous possible sighting of Madeleine was reported.
At around 3pm yesterday, the couple - who were about to go to Tempelhof airport in Berlin to fly on to the Netherlands - were advised that the caller might try to contact them, so they stayed on at the British embassy.
At 6pm, journalists travelling in the eight-seater private jet with the McCanns were told by the flight crew that there might be a change in destination.
They revealed they had been asked to draw up a new flight plan involving a possible change from Amsterdam to East Midlands Airport.
It was thought the McCanns might need to go back to the UK to talk to advisers about the call.
But all efforts to re-establish contact with the man failed and the couple decided to go on to Amsterdam.
A British police source said: “The importance of this line of inquiry is still being assessed and attempts to re-establish contact are continuing.”
June 7th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Oh my God! I have just heard the news! Police source received a mystery phone call claiming to know the where a bouts of Madeleine! Please! Please! Please be good news and say she’s been found alive!
June 6th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
The hunt for missing Madeleine McCann has switched to Morocco again - as the police hunted a mystery German! Do you think we might have a connection?
June 6th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Is New Age paedo lying low in Gran Canaria?
While there seems to be no let up in the frenzy of publicity surrounding the abduction of one little British girl in the Algarve, two families in Gran Canaria continue to wait and hope out of the media spotlight.
Yéremi Vargas, 7, went missing in the south of that island in March; Sara Morales Hernández, 14, vanished in Las Palmas in July last year. The police are continuing their search of wells, reservoirs, caves and ravines, but so far without a hint of a result.
And while their families grieve and parents all over the island worry about their children’s safety, a troubling story has appeared in the local press in recent days to rekindle public concern: a well known child sex offender, wanted by the German police, is reported to have been spotted in Gran Canaria.
Ulrich Schulz, a corpulent, bearded, long-haired individual in possession of a seeming fortune and wanted for questioning in connection with almost a thousand allegations of child abuse, is on the run from his luxurious Portuguese mansion and has been for the past five years.
The 58-year-old goes by his artistic names of Oliver Shanti and Oliver Serano and has recorded over a dozen New Age albums with typically esoteric titles like Seven Times Seven, Circles of Life and Man, Earth, Heaven, some of them with no lesser ensemble than the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Schulz is the leader of what is described as a religious sect founded by him in Bavaria in 1980. Within a few years, however, he and his numerous followers had moved south to Portugal where they settled near Vila Nova de Cerveira, in the north of the country. Schulz purchased a large estate, Casal San José, with mansion and several houses, even a stableful of horses. His followers, who include whole families of various nationalities, dedicate their time to praying, meditation and growing vegetables and medicinal plants. Schulz is said to have made free with their children.
The sect is still at Casal San José and holding the fort, though claiming Schulz sold them the property before he left five years ago.
Up until his flight he had cultivated not only his extensive grounds but also his persona as regards the local townsfolk. Far from believing him to be a rampant paedophile, the local authorities honoured him as a generous philanthropist.
He financed the town’s fiestas; he paid for food and medical care, even operations and wheelchairs, for the poor; he purchased five ambulances for the volunteer fire forces in the area and he even donated a statue for the town square.
For all this and more he was awarded a medal by the town hall and given the official honorary title of “Favoured Son” of Vila Nova de Cerveira.
But in August 2002 a German couple alerted the police to his activities when they reported him for the sexual abuse of their son. After that the flood gates opened and the gravity of the case became apparent. Though seemingly not to the Portuguese police who have been criticized by their Spanish counterparts for their lack of cooperation in assisting in the search for Schulz. Indeed, it has been alleged the Portuguese police told the Spanish they were not even aware that an international warrant for Schulz’s arrest had been issued.
After leaving Vila Nova de Cerveira he is known to have crossed into Spain, to Tuy and Pontevedra. Public response to Crimewatch-type television programmes would appear to indicate that he has also been in Galicia and Murcia.
More recently, after a showing of Los Más Buscados a caller reported having seen Schulz in the Mesa y Lopez area of Las Palmas and other reports have pinpointed him to Maspalomas in the south and Escaleritas, also in Las Palmas, this last area is where the family of Sara Morales Hernandez lives.
An e-fit picture issued by the German police and circulated to police throughout Spain shows Schulz with a trimmed beard and shorter hair. They describe him as a “dangerous paedophile”. They are hoping his poor health may give them a lead. Schulz is known to take Seroxat and Lithium, two prescription drugs which are anti-depressants. Spanish chemist shops have been alerted and asked to report anyone fitting Schulz’s description trying to purchase such medication.
June 6th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Megan Says:
June 6th, 2007 at 10:53 am
..” This is about a poor little child who is missing and about a guilt ridden family”…
Sorry, Megan my dear, but this is not about a missing child or a purportedly guilt-ridden family. It is seemingly about money, pure and simple.
Every day, another £50,000 gets socked away in that curiously worded “fund account current”. Mark my words (especially because that money is tax-free), these are two practitioners who are highly unlikely to return to the long hours and stress of practising medicine at any time in the near future.
Does the father have aspirations for a future in politics, as this certainly comes across as an exercise in wildly successful fundraising and useless, empty rhetoric?
A major disconnect from reality from the get-go. A four-year child and two-year-old twins left unattended in an apartment with familiar resort attractions just outside the easily opened door. A seemingly well-connected extended family which eagerly leaped into the fund-raising and meet-the-politicians fray. The meet-and-greets and travels to exotic climes and destinations (the child was hardly likely to be found at a Papal audience in Rome or in the vicinity of Fatima’s shrine–and certainly won’t be found in Berlin, Brisbane or Bali).
http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com/
The balance on 06/06/07, the fund account current stands at £673,366.97.
Title, Source, Date
No answers as McCanns campaign marches on. Telegraph, 06/06/2007
June 6th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Simply put: not everyone is a McCann fan - and nor should they be.
I have young children and have until very recently never taken a family holiday simply because infants need looking after. There is nothing unusual in that, and no problem there at all. It’s our choice freely taken. If I were a rare orchid farmer or performing seal trainer and they needed my attention perhaps I would have stayed home too in recent years.
It’s about making decisions and accepting responsibility. After the event of their misplacing their child; the failure of the MEcann cult to use this incident (which has arisen directly out of their selfishness and negligence) to transform it to a broader good is only a natural failure - most parents would just want their own child back.
This very ordinariness is what disqualifies them from being heroic and attracts criticism. Despite the remarkable quantity of attention they have skillfully engineered, they have failed to universalise the issue - to address the dreadful hand dealt to countless children the world over. Opportunity cost: as well as highlighting their loss, this media attention should be better used to broader ends for the common good.
Yes they are a pitiful pair, deserving of our pity. I wish them no harm. Nonetheless to lionise their actions as if they were heroic and deserving our blind admiration is nonesense. That’s the problem here.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Could all you pathetic pessimists shut up please, stop concentrating on how much you hate ‘media circus’ as you call it and think about the poor little girl. Your all stuck up snobs thinking about yourselves and how you hate the media, this isn’t about you! This is about a poor little child who is missing and about a guilt ridden family. So either help find this little babe, or keep your pathetic childish noses out.
June 5th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
No I’m not getting irritated, and I’m not being nosey either and I’m not dyslexic either , it clearly says Anonymous. I have also posted under my own name and not Anorak’s
June 5th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Could I ask a question please in relation to Frances Wicks login, is she a representative of Anorak or not? If she isn’t could that part of the login be removed?
June Johnson
June 5th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Thank you KATH for explaining that to JEAN JONES.
Jean I DID explain in my first post to u that I was not so naive as to think Maddie WAS definately still alive, i ruled out neither possibilities, I was being fair, sticking up for Maddies family who are just doing was any parent that i know, would do. U are the “pot calling the kettle black” in my opinion, u were practically ruling out Maddie ever being found alive, stating “remaining strong, praying is most likely a waste of time”. THIS alone shows that u are sticking to ONE conclusion. I, was not. I STILL stand by my initial post, every word I said, I meant & non of that was screaming OR abuse. I know I have a mature head on my shoulders, I understand the world is not a perfect place, but I am OPEN MINDED & I am sympathetic to any person in such situations as Maddie & her family. Is it not shallow to use my young age & the fact that I have not yet got children of my own as a way of fobbing off my argument???? I know NOT to steoreotype Jean, and I am only 22, considering u have “vastly more experience” compared to me, you’d thing you’d know not to put me in the same categorie as a “typical 22 yr old”. Also, someone telling you when they think you are wrong ISNT “hurling abuse”…
Lynn, Samantha, J & Kath all agree with my initial statement that u are one track minded & thoughtless. & THANK YOU KATH, not once did I say JEAN was “insane”…
June 5th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
frances Wicks/Anorak Says:
June 5th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Hal - What is the bottom line here…?
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June 5th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
That dark spot on the iris
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/intraocularmelanoma/patient
Age and sun exposure may increase the risk of developing intraocular melanoma.
Anything that increases your risk of getting a disease is called a risk factor. Risk factors for intraocular melanoma include the following:
Older age.
Having a fair complexion (blond or red hair, fair skin, green or blue eyes).
Being exposed to a lot of sunlight or to certain chemicals.
Possible signs of intraocular melanoma include a dark spot on the iris or blurred vision.
Intraocular melanoma may not cause any early symptoms. It is sometimes found during a routine eye exam when the doctor dilates the pupil and looks into the eye. The following symptoms may be caused by intraocular melanoma or by other conditions. A doctor should be consulted if any of these problems occur:
A dark spot on the iris.
Blurred vision.
A change in the shape of the pupil.
A change in vision.
June 5th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
I’m not speaking for the whole nation.
And also I’m waiting until we hear if anyone is charged and found guilty of her abduction and with good forensic evidence and not wishful thinking.
If however anyone was there , and saw Murat take the child, why didn’t they stop him?
June 5th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Kath you said I was trying to educate you which didn’t make sense either as I was not.
But thankyou for your kind permission to express my own feelings
June 5th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
June, your reply to me (???) doesn’t even make sense in the context of my last post. Of course you can express your own feelings. I said as much. Duh!