How can anyone here know whether she is alive or dead. not one LE force has stated that they know for certain. PJ said they did not know, and scotland yard said whilst they did not know there were leads that meant there was a chance she was alive.
So the only people who can know at the moment are the ones who were there.
Also does anyone else think a bunch of grown adults taking votes on whether a tiny child is alive or dead is rather bad taste?
sorry cappuccino i cant edit the poll i should have put dont know but even if one doesnt know they might think more one way or the other, as for jaycee she was seen being abducted for sure no one saw madeleine being abductedWhere's the don't know option? That would be my vote - don't know whether she is alive or dead.
After this length of time I would obviously lean towards the sad option of dead, but then again, look at cases like Jaycee Duggard where she turned up alive after 18 years. Her stepfather was suspected by all and sundry for the 18 years she was missing too, just like Maddie's parents now are, so you never know. You just never know, maybe this story will also have a happy ending.
The only person who saw Jaycee being abducted was her stepfather. Can you see how that made him a suspect?
It's done in every other missing child case. Or do you mean this is worse because it's in a poll form instead of just being a discussion?
oh thanks didnt know that but at least someone DID see her being abducted which is not the case here
Thats just it though, at the time it was said he claime dot have seen her abducted and it was just his word. just as in this case it is just tanner, and the smiths word as to what they saw. maybe one day they will be proven right or wrong, but at this point they are in the same situation as Jaycee's dugaard's stepfather was for eighteen years. he was only vindicated when jaycee was found.
oh thanks didnt know that but at least someone DID see her being abducted which is not the case here
I don't want to get into an argument with you Clutchbag, because I honestly don't know what happened here. But I would just ask you to ask yourself the following hypothetical question - say Kate McCann claimed to have witnessed Madeleine being abducted, and there was no corroborating evidence. No other witnesses, no defensive wounds, forensics, anything. That's the position Jaycee's stepfather was in for 18 years.
Would you really take her word for it? Or would you think it was even more grounds to suspect her?
If Madeleine was abducted at all she was abducted with no other witness present, apart from her two younger (and most likely sleeping) siblings. So the fact that there are no witnesses doesn't mean she wasn't abducted.
Basically, I don't know is my answer.
Poll form (although I obviously disagree with people making unfounded accusations or speculating - on this forum it is normally OK, but some other ones I have sadly seen are just vile).
I also did not see a "think" in the poll title, all i can see is a question - is she alive or dead.
Cappaccino,
Yes I remember that her stepfather got a lot of abuse from people on the internet claiming it was suspect, right up until she was found. parents of missing children have always been targets of suspicion for obvious reasons, and have always had to deal with gossip and rumour, but now it has got worse with the internet. I remember reading an article about the mother of Keith bennett, who disappeared in the early sixties. She always believed he was a victim of the moors murders apprently, but as she had only been married for a year there was a lot of nasty suspicion and gossip about her husband. It was twenty years before she was sadly proven right. It is wrong a mother in that situation had to put up with that sort of attitude. It is one thing for the police to intially suspect the parents -in the soham case one of the father's said he saw a note at the police station saying the father was a suspect, in the milly dowler case her father was initially suspected - thank goodness the UK police do not release all the details of the case like the PJ do as he woudl ahve had a lot of nastiness directed at him going by the information divulged about him in the trial and the nastiness about it on the internet now. I think in the Uk at least the recent wales abuse naming and shaming fiasco might bring that to a head in regards to internet gossip as the man named is considering legal action against individuel twitter users, but we will see.