are Kate and Gerry McCann responsible parents?

[Tasha20]

Im sorry but thats just how I feel Steff

 

[budge]

well what can really be said that hasnt been said ...

people assume because they are doctors that these people should have some ultimate parenting capability ... lets talk about teenage mums ... would ANYONE be as sympathetic if a single teenage mum left her baby in her flat and went off for a drink ... nah course not!

I dont care if the parents had a false sense of security why not give them a can of petrol and some friggin matches for godsake.

Shame that meal cost them more than they bargained on i hope it sat well in their stomachs!!!

touche

im sorry but yeah i get upset about this, i have a little boy sleeping upstairs and i do get emotional over something like this, i just feel that since this has happened we are hearing oh the poor parents how they must be feleing and people seem to forget there is a little girl out there helpless and if (pray to heaven) she is still alive the torment and terror she is going through ... people say oh the parents made a mistake they are being punished but are they really? because the only person i think is being punished is the little girl who was took away from her family her parents she loved and put her faith and trust in, the people she depended on to keep her safe! fabulous jobs doctors!

hey no need to apologise to me! i agree with you entirely! loads of sympathy for the parents - don't hear much for madleines plight.

 

[budge]

perhaps its us that odd

 

[Dee1985]

Just read alllll the posts

I think that it was planned by very very cleaver people with allot of contacts.

I don’t think she is dead I think she is being looked after well and waiting for all this to calm down

I pray she has gone to a family that love her and desperately wanted a child.

I think the parents are ding the right thing traveling the world, I wouldn’t stop at any thing and would not be sat at home sulking I would be out doing every ting I could - seems the police are not doing a great job!

But some one said that the restaurant was in the same building - it was not it was far away over past the swimming pool and behind loads of trees!!!

The window to the apartment was on a main street! That would worry me enough!

Please stop saying she is dead and being raped!!! It’s sickening!!!!!

 

[Alfiesmummy]

you know the real sad thing ... if she is still alive the sort of torment she is going through and if shes ever found how a little girl will be ruined and damaged for life and how she will never trust anyone again ... in all honestly i actually dont know if its worse her being alive or dead ... now THAT is the sad fact of it all!

 

[budge]

just read alllll the posts

i think that it was planned by very very cleaver people with alot of contacts.

i dont think she is dead i think she is eing looked after well and waiting for all this to calm down

i pray she has gone to a family that love her and desperatly wanted a child.

i think the parents are ding the right thing traveling the world, i wouldnt stop at any thing and would not be sat at home sulking i would be out doing every ting i could - seems the police are not doing a great job!

but some one said that the resterant was in the same building - it was not it was far away over past the swimming pool and behind loads of trees!!!

the window to the apartment was on a main street! that would worry me anough!

please stop saying she is dead and being raped!!! its sickening!!!!!

but dionne im afraid thats a stark possiblity

i doubt very much that she is being kept by someone desparate for a child. Thy would have freaked out and given her over by now.
shes been taken by a peadohile ring i suspect. And i doubt she will see the light of day let alone her parents again.

 

[Tasha20]

I agree, its been too long now and unfortunatly because of the high media coverage it may have drove them to getting rid of her quick.

They would crack

 

[Minxy]

I don't know where I stand on this I think for anyone to lose a child is far too much 'punishment'. But I do think AM made a valid point.

The media seem to have 'forgiven' the middle-class doctor parents. If Madeleine's mother had been a single 18 year old on a package deal to Bendiorm they'd have bloody hung, drawn and quatered her

The hyposcrisy makes me sick

 

[nathanmum]

theyve been punished enough. do you really think a prison sentance would hurt them anymore than losing a child? talk about kicking them when theyre down.
thank the lord that some people in the world still believe in forgiveness.
im so glad that there are so many perfect parents in the world.
can i ask would you look that poor woman in the face and tell her that she was irresponsible, should be punished and all the other comments youve been posting?? if you would then shame on you.

 

[Alfiesmummy]

then shame me because i bloody well would!
shame on me? nah shame on them!
Im not for one second saying that im a perfect parent ... in fact far from it i make mistakes. yeah i make mistakes like mistaking him wingeing when his teeth hurt.
thinking hes being naughty when hes tired.
taking him out without a jacket when perhaps he should be wearing one. not getting to him before he topples over and bangs his head.
but never would i abandon my responsibilty and leave him when he is a small child unable to look after himself, defend himself and be put at risk!

 

[Tasha20]

Absolutly

 

[budge]

theyve been punished enough. do you really think a prison sentance would hurt them anymore than losing a child? talk about kicking them when theyre down.
thank the lord that some people in the world still believe in forgiveness.
im so glad that there are so many perfect parents in the world.
can i ask would you look that poor woman in the face and tell her that she was irresponsible, should be punished and all the other comments youve been posting?? if you would then shame on you.

bring it on!!! i would love to tell them they fooked up!!!

 

[Princess_Puddles]

then shame me because i bloody well would!
shame on me? nah shame on them!
Im not for one second saying that im a perfect parent ... in fact far from it i make mistakes. yeah i make mistakes like mistaking him wingeing when his teeth hurt.
thinking hes being naughty when hes tired.
taking him out without a jacket when perhaps he should be wearing one. not getting to him before he topples over and bangs his head.
but never would i abandon my responsibilty and leave him when he is a small child unable to look after himself, defend himself and be put at risk!

I have to agree 100% with you AM, I feel exactly the same!

 

[Freya]

Hi me again

I know emotions run high with this - I think however angry/sad etc. you feel for Madelaine multiply by 1000000 and you might get somewhere close to how the parents feel.

I don't know about the class issue. I think yes possibly if they were unemployed and out drinking all night they may have got more of a beating from the press I don't know and I hope we don't have another missing case to find out. I also think that is a bit of a seperate issue because whtever backround, age, race if they had behaved in the same way as Madelaines parents I would have felt the same.

The thing is WHAT ABOUT THE PERSON WHO TOOK HER!! If he/she wasn't there she wouldn't be gone. I bet the same night Madeleine was left alone thousands of other children were left alone - I think they were unlucky.

I know if I had to look Madelaines parents in the face and say something then all I could say would be 'sorry'. I could get a bit philosophical here but I won't.

 

[nathanmum]

how sad.
like i said before thank god theres still some who believe in forgiveness.
when i look in that womans eyes i just wanna hug her and tell her to be strong, not how crap a mum shes been.
i think im a good person, with good morales, and a good judgement.
i dont need to tell people i told you so to reinforce my values.

 

[Alfiesmummy]

I bet the same night Madeleine was left alone thousands of other children were left alone - I think they were unlucky.

well i find that very sad that thousands of people find it ok to leave their poor defenseless children whilst they eat drink and be merry somewhere else.

yes they were unlucky but id say that they were not so unlucky as irresponsible.

of course the person who took her is to blame. but had they been there they could of attemoted to save her, done whatever it was to save their daughter fought to the death for her ... i would expect nothing else of a parent .. or perhaps im over the top in believing how children should be protected. instead they were not there, no one was there to attempt to stop this stranger bundling up their little girl in their arms and carrying her off into the night!

 

[budge]

how sad.
like i said before thank god theres still some who believe in forgiveness.
when i look in that womans eyes i just wanna hug her and tell her to be strong, not how crap a mum shes been.
i think im a good person, with good morales, and a good judgement.
i dont need to tell people i told you so to reinforce my values.

talking about forgiveness then. if medeline is found alove one day and shes been sexually abused and gang raped by a paedohpile ring are you going to forgive the perpetrators there then?

 

[Freya]

cant do this quote thing.

The thing is I know where Nathans mum is coming from - you can forgive a 'mistake' that the parents made or maybe I should say an error of judgement.

I think we all know that that is different to any perpetrators who may be doing whatever to Madeleine and of course I would say 'kill the b@stards'

 

[nathanmum]

i dont think i could forgive a paedophile, murderer or any other evil monster, their motivation is one of hate. but i can forgive people who make mistakes.

 

[budge]

so you would forgive someone who did the same to your child then if they were under their care?