scandi
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Well I'm not going to get into any unproductive old McCann-bashing arguments about the FACT that the they left their children in the apartment. They'e never denied it. It happened, Madeleine was abducted and I'll bet no-one regrets that more than her parents. However, I am of the school which believes that if a gate gets left open and a bull bolts, you get looking for the bull. You don't stand around arguing about who left the gate open. There has been so much stinky brown stuff written about the case and then perpetuated on the Internet and quite frankly, I am gobsmacked that it's still making the rounds.
IMO, the people who want to bash the McCanns will bash them regardless of what decisions they took. They were criticised for staying in Portugal and then criticised for coming home. Gerry McCann was criticised for staying off his work and then criticised all the more for returning to work. They are currently being criticised for launching another appeal in Portugal. For sure if they hadn't done so, they'd have been criticised for that too.
IMO these are hard-working, decent people who made a seriously bad judgement and who suffered the worse possible consequence of it. They have to live with that and I'm really glad I'm not in their shoes. However, I do have a shred of humanity and I'd never kick someone when they are down. I couldn't justify that to myself let alone anyone else.
However, there is one consolation. The McCanns are strong people who are really only interested in getting Madeleine back. They have stood strong against the (fortunately decreasing) attacks on the Internet. Attacks which can't hurt them any more than living with the abduction of their daughter and the knowledge that it could have been avoidable. Then again, if they had stayed in their apartments that night, perhaps we'd be discussiong the abduction of a different child.
Incidentally, the McCanns have also been working tirelessly on projects which will help missing children in the future. This has not been hugely publicised a) because the people they are lobbying are not the general public and b) because the McCanns are not doing it for personal glory but to achieve an end result which will benefit everyone.
Hi Jayelles, I appreciate your post, but you start it out with the unproven premise that Madeleine was abducted, stating it like it is a fact.
In the very beginning of the case the police ran with the idea abduction could be a possibility, with great encouragement from the English LE. They found no evidence of that and the dogs sealed the fate of an abduction theory IMO
I also don't believe if the Portuguese authorities had any evidence against the McCann's they would have been arrested immediately.
When Kate was made an Arguido it has been written the police wanted to arrest her at that point. It wasn't done, possibly as the political air with the involvement of the Englilsh powers that be, as they were stiffling.
Also we have learned that the Portuguese move at a much slower pace than we do here in the States or in England. It is just their way of meting out Justice and works for them. It is my fervent wish that one day soon the last piece of the puzzle will fall into place and Madeleine will have Justice.
xox