Madeleine McCann investigation 'cost £10 million to date'

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****, ikr. Preview post is a barefaced lie.

There also seems to be a strange thing that goes on with this case, that because she isn't a black or working class child, we shouldn't care. Surely all young children who go missing should attract the greatest possible attention and concern?

Youve got it the wrong way round. If the the child was black or working class - no one would care. But because shes a middle class white kid, the whole country was being rabble roused by the media.

And i agree. But how many missing children get this kind of media attention.

You have no evidence for your final two assertions.

On the question of what I accept or defend, I've read the evidence in detail unlike many people (including, visibly, many posters on this thread) and I don't believe they did anything remotely like neglect. They were a couple of minutes away from the children in what was widely taken to be a very secure environment. The sort of thing that many, many parents have done on similar holidays in similar locations. They were alternating regularly going back to check on them. Again, the sort of thing that many, many parents do.

As I said, the heat over this case constantly directed at the McCanns is a classic case of blame the victims and at the same time is self-centred loathing based on weariness over media exposure. The hate has no relationship to the actual facts of the case.

It also is (sadly) mildly defensive of active paedophiles, as there does seem to still be a tendency in abduction cases to assume that the child or the parents are somehow to blame. Paedophilia thrives in this atmosphere, where instead of directing hate and aggression to the perverted adults engaged in devious criminal abduction and torture of very young children, it is directed against the poor family themselves. Really loathsome reactions and the people having them ought to check their own personalities out and wonder why they want to support the actions of active child snatchers in this way.

She's dead, drop it. If she wasn't a blonde white little girl, nobody would care this much.

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Don't miss out that this girl is also from a middle class family... the fact she's white doesn't even escape the fact that if she was working class no ****'s would be given either :/.

I hate the times we live in.

Don't miss out that this girl is also from a middle class family... the fact she's white doesn't even escape the fact that if she was working class no ****'s would be given either :/.

I hate the times we live in.

What paedophiles here?....This so makes me laugh and reminds me of witch hunts or nazi anti jew propaganda where they've actually made everybody believe there's this villainous, evil paedophile ring randomly hanging about together in this place in Portugal, darkly whispering and cackling around in a circle... Yet this evil ring only kidnaps 1 child...doesn't bother ever bothering anyone ever again.....easiest thing ever to blame some random paedophiles - don't people know it's usually someone known to the family who ends up abusing children in most cases anyway.
It's known Kate McCann was probably suffering from post-natal depression and was finding it hard with 3 kids under 5 years old, hence them leaving them in the apartment, probably drugged - I watched the documentary 'madeleine was here' and it was obvious how hyperactive the two twins still were and that kate and gerry still seemed overwhelmed.
The only reason they came up with whole fiasco was to protect the other two kids they had left and try to make life as normal for them, whilst still keeping their house and being able to pay off the TONNE of student debts from medical school, as well as three rounds of IVF -- had to come up with something.....I don't blame them....just the people that are so gullible to donate money and become weirdly sentimentally attached....I just don't get that at all.

Youve got it the wrong way round. If the the child was black or working class - no one would care. But because shes a middle class white kid, the whole country was being rabble roused by the media.

And i agree. But how many missing children get this kind of media attention.

You make loads of allegations there, what's your evidence? Some of things you say were in the early press reports in the Express and Mail, all of which have been repeatedly proven to be false and which the McCanns were given large damages for. I haven't heard some of your points before, did you just make some of them up?

The McCanns were unbelievably stupid and irresponsible for leaving their young children alone in the bedroom; whilst they went out for a meal with 'friends'. I wouldn't call these friends, someone should have told them it was plain wrong to leave their kids alone. We have stayed at that particular resort with our 3 kids (all under five at the time) and went out without them for the evening... but we had arranged a babysitter - small price to pay for peace of mind, not that we would have even considered leaving them alone at that age.

Still not sure I believe the McCanns story....

Still not sure I believe the McCanns story....

Supposedly they paid off their mortgage with some of it.