Madeleine McCann most looked for child ever: if alive must be found
Filed under: News | By: Daz
Posted on: December 4, 2007 | 26 Comments
I guess almost everyone on the planet has heard about Madeleine McCann, the mysterious disappearing child, but is there really still a chance she is alive?
Madeleine is probably the most ever looked for person, with all the media attention is there really still a chance that the little girl is still alive?
As we have also seen Gerry and Kate McCann going backwards and forwards in the investigation, this has raised eyebrows.
Well here are some questions I think you should ask yourself:
- 1) Why did she get more media attention than other missing children before her?
- 2) When do we say enough is enough, and stop looking?
- 3) If Madeleine McCann is still alive, with this much media attention is it not impossible for her not to be found?
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Well it’s hardly rocket science is it? Most of us would have had to skulk back to our jobs pretty soon to pay the mortgage. The McCanns on the other hand are relatively well off, intelligent and well connected. They had the time, the drive, the means, the connections and the knowledge to set up a huge media campaign.
Chrissy,
I wasn’t asking a dumb question. I received a reply to my personal email stating that it was not possibly class that separates the coverage this case got over others, but there was something else which captured the media’s attention. What do people think of them leaving their children alone on two separate holidays? Does this change peoples’ perspectives? The person who replied to me suggested that the reason the McCann case got more coverage than the Needhams was because the word “paedophile” was brought into the equation- but why was it? There is no evidence to suggest she, or Ben, were abducted for heinous reasons.
I fully understand Nicola’s frustration, but am not wholly convinced that the amount of media coverage is directly proportional to the success of the operation and to recovering the child in good health. To be quite honest I feel that the coverage given to this case, the Maddie-events, releasing the information about her eye defect etc would frighten the kidnapper and make him drop her like a hot a potato. Operations such as Operation Ambre only work when they are done within a few hous of the kidnapping, before the kidnapper has the time to get organised and move the child too far. By the time the alarm was raised discretion would, to my mind, have been far mor fruitful.
Ftuley,
Well said. If the governing bodies around the world treated these vile evil ba****ds in the manner they deserve i.e. if proven 100% that these people are responsible for abducting, abusing, raping or murdering they should be disposed of. I say bring back capital punishment. Hang or electrocute the ratbags. There is no deterent in place so these people carry on doing what they want and ruining lives. Let’s pour money into finding these missing kids and stop pouring money into sending men into space and war.
Lynn
I am addressing #3 - asking if the girl is a live - wouldn’t she be found already?
Well, there are cases where children have been held in basements and cells built underground for years and years. One girl Natasha Kampusch was missing in Australia for more than 8 years before she escaped her abductor in August 2006.
Also, from what I have read, some of the strongest sightings have been in remote countries where the media surrounding Madeline is scarcely known.
So - yes, it is very possible that this little girl is a live.
Eanne94,
I agree, the coverage the press have given to the case is somewhat dangerous. They have hounded whoever has her which could put the child in even more danger than she is possibly in, if she is still out there. I think the McCanns have been duped into paying for the Spanish private investigation team, Metodo 3, in a last desperate bid to find their daughter. Metodo 3’s release of wild assumptions and statements has led to false hopes and embarassed statements being released from the McCann’s spokesman, Clarence Mitchell. I think the police should continue the investigation but the UK press should back down until credible news on the case can be found. At the moment, they are printing crazed theories and unfounded results.
I think Madeleine is famous because of that mark in her eye- it gives people hope. Not to mention that her parents have made a larger effort than most others. They did not leave it to the authorities (not that I blame other parents) but took matters into their own hands- traveling across the world to find her.
When do we stop looking? When we know what happened.
I believe that the coverage on Madeleine is not down what class they are at all, it was down to the family pulling together and moving as fast as they could with the campaign, hoping and praying the abductor(s)had not got too far and that public media would stop them getting too far away with little Maddie. When Ben Needham went missing media coverage in those days was not as good, everyone uses the internet now and this is why things move quicker, Its a sign of the times and this has worked to the McCanns advantage.
It really gets my back up when people believe what they read, I believe the McCanns are totally innocent, i do agree that they should not have left their children, I have a child of 3, we go on holiday our routine rotates around her and she does not leave my sight, BUT!!! this has happened, nothing can change it, the McCanns are suffering enough, not knowing, who has her, is she alive, if she is what is she going through, this as a parent is torture alone.
I as a parent would do as much as I could to get my child back, I would shout as loud as i could, I would draw as much attention to my child, i could not let it fade into the background and i as the McCanns would leave no stone unturned, id search to the end of the earth for my child.
I do feel the private detectives are ripping the McCanns off and this is as bad as abducting little Maddie in the first place. I believe they are just doing this to make some quick hard cash, so if there is some agancy who is willing to show this agency how to do their job then please do so as this little girl has to be found and returned before Christmas. Make the McCanns Christmas a very special on for this family. Maddie at home where she belongs!! with mummy, daddy and twins.
It breaks my heart and she is in my thoughts always x
Sounds like Maddie McCann is England’s Etan Patz. Etan’s case woke America up to kidnapping when I was a child in the 70’s. He was the first child pictured on a milk carton. The case has never been officially solved although re-opened several times and they beleive they know who did it. Still the family has never had the final closure of knowing exactly what happened to him or where he is. The difference is that the NYC detectives on the case took it to heart and didn’t give up unlike the Portugese police that just want to see the case and their record setting number of blunders go away.
If you are a parent i would like to think that you would do everything in your power to find your missing child.We must not give up hope for her, she is probably being hidden in someones home and i really hope that its not too long until they make a mistake and she is found.
God Bless her i think about her every day it breaks my heart to think of her out there somewhere all along with strangers.