Madeleine McCann Alone in Apartment: children will go missing or abducted
Filed under: News | By: Daniel
Posted on: November 30, 2007 | 41 Comments
Parents of Madeleine McCann left children under five, alone in an apartment to fend for themselves, this led for them to meet with a fatal accident or the potential to be abducted whilst alone?
Especially with Mr Mc Cann later suggesting his family were being watched, or that a predator may have actually been in the room when he went to check. For I find these to be incredulous, and that one would hope advise that if parents, or caregivers were to have any hint or intuition that this may be the case, there is the need to take extra precautions?
Here it seems to all the world, that the parents cannot somehow be held responsible for lack of care and protection of their children on six consecutive nights For here in Hong Kong two parents are in police custody for leaving their five children alone regularly, the social welfare services are taking up the case and the children are in temporary care.
Think of the children- where is their voice to say no-one was here to look after or protect us. Even if they wake up scared, and alone at night- this in itself is enough to cause psychological harm, and in this tragic case even the disappearance of an innocent child, whatever may have happend to her that dreadful night.
All young children who are, and will continue to be home alone or go missing or abducted, unless such actions are addressed by people who can make a difference- who we can trust and look to be their voice.
Source: Thanks to Mrs E. Tong from Hong Kong
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Oh come on I am sick of hearing they left them alone! We know the world know`s this but remember someone abducted her, that does not give them the right! Madeleine`s parents made a mistake which they are dearly paying for now. They are good parents it`s easy to see that. We need to move on from punishing them as they have gone through the worst thing ever and the press coverage has been a nightmare for them. Lets remember Madeleine is missing and it`s possible she is still alive,she need`s to be found.
I`m sure with all the publicity this has had if parents out there have been leaving children alone they will earn from this! and I being the mother of two young children would not ever leave my children alone but would certainly not take the opportunity to kick someone while they are down!!!
GodBless Madeleine hope she is found soon.
The McCanns are no victims. The victim is Madeleine. Therefore, I have no simpathy whatsoever for them; they left her and the twins alone, she would be ok if they had behaved like proper parents, so she is the victim, and they are the ones to blame. There would be no justice until they are punished in some way. I’m sorry to be harsh, but I don’t think they have paid dearly, Maddie has paid dearly, and for something that wasn’t her fault. And, of couse, they are not good parents at all, good parents don´t behave like them
Hey Maryjoe - How do you know the child was abducted? What about the theory - she woke up - scared, alone - no friends staying over as they did the nights before, got up walked oustide. Part of the street was really dug up and then paved over that morning. And no one has dug up that street to see if she could have fell in among all the debris! The parents are responsible! My children are 9 and 10 and never left alone! They aren’t even allowed out of the yard, and certainly know they are not allowed near the street. I’d much rather be safe than sorry! I know it could happen in a minute. Accidents, child abductors, etc. Anything can happen, that is why it is our duty as parents to take every step to keep our children safe. What about the 11 year old boy that was kidnapped on his walk from the school bus to his house! Or Cedrika Provencher - 9 years old and kidnapped trying to help a man find a lost dog in the park! I hope they find her alive, but will she even remember her parents after this much time? It is very very sad. They were so far away, that if she would have got up and gone outside and yelled for her parents, they wouldn’t have heard her! There was no excuse. Free babysitting too that they refused. I am sure they have learned to never do that again. I would think parents of lower class would do this sort of thing due to money and education, not such an upstanding and educated couple.
Poor Maryjoe,
I agree with your emotions about this, but several thoughts come to mind. One - we have very few solid facts about this case, (this leads us to obsess about what we do know for sure), and one fact is that the McCanns’ negligence is indisputable. Another solid fact is that Madeleine is missing. Secondly, if you are truly sick of hearing about this, then you might be wise to try to stop reading these articles. I’m afraid the issue is very highly charged for most of us and will not go away easily.
What kind of person are you, Javier, that you have no sympathy? Only someone without a heart has no sympathy. I believe that leaving them was a mistake, but you are far from perfect, and you are horribly, terribly harsh, without one ounce of human decency.
Ann, you don’t know me, and you don’t know my acts, so you can’t say how am I or which are my motivations for saying it. I’m not going to say anything against you, because I don’t know anything about you, but the McCanns admitted, by their own words, that they had let their children alone in a foreign country, for several days in a row, to have dinner and drinks with their friends, and that, at least in my country, is serious negligence. No, I have no sympathy for such kind of people, all of it goes to their poor children (or victims). I think that I have more decency in a nail than the McCanns have in all their bodies, and I think that you have, too. I think that your sympathy is misplaced, but try to be less offensive next time you talk about someone you don’t know nothing about
Children should never be lef unattended. The Mccanns neglected the children and have shown little remorse for doing so. If it had been a single tennage mother would there be any support, I don’t know what happened to Poor Madeleine but the perants have to be held responsable.
Sad but true, Mrs. Tong and Javier are right. As for sympathy, imagine yourself making a film about these events. As director, you’d be hard pressed to accurately depict the dramatic circumstances while maintaining an audience’s identification with the parents: Close up of a wee child being made off with in the dark, eyes wide with terror, crying out for mama. Cut back to mother and dad drinking wine and carousing on the distant patio. Rated X for execrable behaviour.
My sympathy is with Madeleine, certainly NOT with her negligent parents. They made a mistake? They made the same mistake every single night of their holiday - allegedly. That is no mistake, it’s willful negligence and if Madeleine was abducted (and it’s a big IF)it is Madeleine’s suffering I am concerned about not theirs. They haven’t even got the decency to admit they were wrong to leave the children alone. They continually try to brainwash us into believing they are responsible parents and ‘everyone does it’ something I find deeply offensive. I do not do it and no one I know does it either.
What the Mccann’s have gone through, and will continue to is beyond imagination. There but by the grace of God go all parents. Losing a child, the thought of having to face that, is as bad a situation as life could present. Not knowing what’s happened to your child, whether she’s alive or dead, has to take this to a level of despair that is beyond any acceptable challenge that could occur in life. Unbelievably cruel.
To the person / persons responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance, if you felt a fraction of the pain that her parents must be feeling, that should be punishment enough. How cruel has life been to you that you can inflict this level of pain on anyone? How could a person evolve to be so evil? How do you begin to equate the benefits to you of this abduction against the costs inflicted? Maybe the power of having achieved that provides you with some sense of perverse achievement and pleasure. But no, you’re little. You’re disgusting. You’re ill-equipped to deal with life. And one day, you’ll die alone. I hope that it was worth it.
If Madelaine is dead, her parents need to know. If she is alive, she needs to be returned. And if you confront this, then seek help. It’s your only chance of ever feeling anything; of being alive. You’re sadder than Madelaine could ever be - she was just a victim. You, on the other hand, are just lost! Until you fix this situation, you’re nothing!