So...you tell me
Madeline McCann was a three year old from England on an exciting adventure, that being a vacation to Portugal, with her parents when she suddenly went "missing."
And how did she go "missing"? Well, the parents say they went to have dinner with friends and left the 3 year old in their motel room with her twin two year old siblings.
Yes, friends, that's right. The parents went out and left a 3 year old and two 2 year olds in the room alone.
Now immediately alarms flare in my head. What intelligent (did I mention both parents are lawyers?) and responsible parent leave three toddlers in a room alone in a foreign country? If they weren't complicit in her "disappearance" they were certainly negligent.
They claimed they checked on the kids as they ate. Again, this flies in the face of responsible parenting. If you want to be an adult, find friends and a restaurant that won't mind you bringing your toddlers with you OR ask the motel to find you a sitter. If you're both attornies and taking a vacation in Portugal it's not as if you can't afford it.
At first the search for Madeline focused on strangers but now the parents themselves have come under fire. There are a number of circumstances that I question.
1 - The "sniffer" dogs hit on the scent of a dead body in the room rented by Madeline's parents.
2 - Blood was found in the car they rented while in Portugal.
3 - The demeanor of Madeline's mother has been questioned as she has never shown emotion and remains stolic and calm through out this ordeal.
4 - But the thing that bothers me most is their blantent use of Madeline's disappearance as a fund raiser. If you go to their website you will see up front and apparently most importantly a plea for donations, a paypal link to use to facillitate those donations and an online "store" for Madeline products. Want to put up a poster of Madeline as a missing child? You can buy it there.
Madeline went "missing" in May and already in August they have made her disappearance as a business designed to bring in money. This bothers me as much as any of the other circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
So...
Is Madeline missing or was she murdered?
My further thoughts under the first comment tab as I don't want to preempty any comments that might be made with my own thoughts.
Sources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6983604.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20070907/wl_time/couldkatemccannbeamurderer
http://www.findmadeleine.com/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_re_eu/portugal_missing_girl_chronolongy_1
posted by Senihele @ 9:26 AM
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3 Comments:
Sadly, I do believe Madeline is dead. I think she died on the night of that dinner and I do believe her parents, whether deliberately or accidently, were responsible. A child lost. It's sad, it's heartbreaking actually because regardless of how it happened or who actually killed the child, Madeline was failed by the people she trusted the most: her parents.
I'd love to see the parents put under investigation for child endangerment, personally. Even if they had locked the doors and windows so nobody could get in without a key... what if there was a fire?
Quick correction though - the parents are both doctors, not lawyers. The mother is a GP, the father a cardiologist.
Spppppike!!!!!!!
Of the Rage Machine!
I've heard so many different occupations for the parents. The first article I read said lawyers, then doctors. I forgot to come back and correct this.
I just can't fathom how anyone leaves 2 and 3 year olds alone and goes out to eat. Yes, they should at the very least be charged/investigated for neglect.
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