General Chat

I wish they could pay for some publicity for little Daniel Entwistle. He disappeared in May 2003 aged 7, and hasn't been seen since.

http://missingpersonsbloguk.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/daniel-entwistle/

And how many of us know that name Romany? Because he didn't receive such a high profile media attention and advertising campaign as this case has. The fund should be available to others now.

Lyn x

I heard someone on tv say the McCanns are like the new Posh and Becks.


Marion

Well the McCanns can spend the money that I sent them, on whatever they see fit to spend it on, wouldn't care if they went out for lunch with it.

Yet again the crass comments on here astound me,

Some of you have no compassion, lets hope nothing ever happens, to any of your children or Grandchildren, then you'd see how it felt to lose a child, and how you should act, Thankfully I doubt any of us will get to know that feeling, thank god.

As for the comment about Gerry McCann, sounds just like the one I heard while sitting next to two silly women on a plane, one said to the other, I don't like that Gerry McCann, he's looks odd, other woman said, nor do I, he's Scottish you know, first woman said, well there you go then. Complete idiots.

Unless you all have first hand knowledge of what the McCanns are supposed to have done with Madeleine, I don't know how on earth you can be so dam cruel to them.

As for thinking the campaign is pointless, I know if it were my child child missing, I'd move heaven and earth to try to find my child, no, matter what others thought of me, and how do you know how you would act, if it were you who had had a child taken. you think you'd stop functioning? Well maybe you wouldn't, maybe , like the McCanns you would carry on for the sake of your other children, and maybe you'd do everything in your power to find your child, like the McCanns are doing.

Losing a child, through kidnap or death is the most awful of things to happen to a parent, hopefully very few of you will experience that feeling, but unless you do, you have no right to tell the McCanns how they should be acting, let alone what you think of them because they funtion.

As for the McCanns being a Posh & Becs, how crass.

Some of you, have not one ounce of compassion, it truly sickens me.

Well said Lynda HRH!!! (blimey, did l say that - lol:o))

jude sarf wales

I second that Jude.......well said Lynda!

xx

Very well said Lynda

I find in disturbing and upsetting listening to the continued very personal attacks on these human beings.

They are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Then and only then, if the latter is the case, should people then cast their judgements.

Lynda, we are all entitled to our opinion and I certainly have my own views, but wont publish them on here in their entirety for fear of backlash.

All I would say, if we are talking about "crass", I found it, and still do, mind boggling that the Mccanns trademarked Maddie's names 2 weeks after she "disappeared".

People should stop treating these two like heroes of some sort. At the end of the day, their 3 children had the right to expect protection by their own parents, sadly for Maddie, their lack of it, has lead to what is going on now.

Please dont say either that we have "all done" it ie left our kids. No we haven't. I wouldn't leave my kids unsupervised in this country let alone abroad.

I don't consider them heroes


neither do I damn them for making a serious error of judgement

neither do I think they are making money out of their daughters disappearance

I simply feel desperately sorry for their whole family.

xx

Who exactly is treating the McCanns as heroes???

fgs - these are two people who have lost a little girl to who knows what sort of crime. Where on earth is your compassion?

And to whoever it was that compared them to Posh and Beck, in my opinion that statement is worse than crass, it's an abomination.


Jac

well for Gerry Mccann to go to the US giving lectures on how to look after children, is quite laughable.

I have plenty of compassion for those that need it and deserve it, not for people who neglect their kids, and whether you like that or not, it is a FACT!!
The truth will come out, eventually.


Just to add Kitty, it was not the first time they had left their kids unattended. They did it on a regular basis.

Oh so now we know that the McCanns left there children on a regular basis, do we? Why is it that Gerry McCann giving a lecture on child care laughable, I don't think it is.

I still don't get a connection as to what the relevance is to if they left there children or not, are you saying that if someone leaves a child/ren, even though they can see where the place thery were asleep, that there child/ren can then be taken? It has no relevance, our children should be safe wherever they are, your anger should be taken out the person/s that took Madeleine.

Do you blame James Bulgers Mum, for letting go of him while shopping, or Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman's parents for letting them go out, or the little girls Mum who was taken from her bath, do you blame her from leaving the bathroom, I doubt it, you would blame those that took these children, and that is what we should be focussing on, the peron/s who took Madeleine, not for what her parents did that night.

I look and here and see so much anger directed at the McCanns, you should be directing it the person who took there daughter, when they are caught and tried.

Given that the couple currently have no earnings, and neither is likely to go back to work in the foreseeable future, is it surprising that he is looking ways of making a few bob?

I read that the directors of the current fund could if they wished, pay the McCanns an income and they could also they pay legal costs, but lawyers have advised against it. One of the stumbling blocks appears to be the belief that the money might have to be paid back to the fund in the event they are found guilty.

It is rumoured their legal bill to date already tops £250,000 and set to rise week by week, so they will need a lot more than the £100,000 pledged by Richard Branson.

well said lynda

i dont class these people as heroes i think as a mum and now gran they are in need of some support

while these portugese police are hell bent on blame who the hells lookin for a little girl who may (please god i know im not religious) be sat looking at people shes surrounded by confused scared and aching for her mum and dads arms

i for one have had nightmares , i even woke up crying other morning dreaming id had to give up a little girl id been looking after,
thank god it was a dream, im sure kate and gerry would wish they could wake up and find maddie

i brought up a hyperactive child and its tireing and hard but youdo it and you love them, who are those people to say that cos kate supposedly wrote it was hard that she killed her, they need to get real and get off their butts and hope it never happens to them
as for leaving their children alone its a mistake they will live with, none of us are perfect, and no ive never left my kids alone but ive made errors im sure someone could say

But, Lynda, the relevance surely is, if they had not left their children alone Madeleine would not have been taken. They would have been there to protect her from such a thing.

The parents in this case obviously could not see where the children were sleeping because someone did take her without being seen.

What bothers sme about leaving children, even if checked regularly, is what if they woke up wanting Mum or Dad and being distressed because they were not there.

Pat

The fact is children have been taken when just feet away from their parents.......in broad daylight, from a seperate room, wherever.

The person who took the child is to blame, not the victims surely!!

To then imply that as they left their children it makes them capable of misuse of monies and anything else some of you want to beat them with is grossly unfair and very cruel.

On the question of leaving their children alone, I gather that this did happen on more than one occasion whilst they were on holiday in Portugal.

A witness who saw this, also reported that on one of these occasions, she heard a child, possible Maddie, crying for well over an hour prior to her parents returning.

I'm afraid that you can not change what people think on hearing these reports, and who knows, perhaps they were not the caring parents they would like us all to believe.

I am getting so sick of this....

Why is it that in this country.... the victim will always end up being at fault??

Is that what she was wearing when 'she got raped?'

No, it is what she was wearing *WHEN HE RAPED HER!*

The McCanns are quilty of leaving their children unattended in a locked bedroom, and looking in on them occasionally?

NO... WHOEVER TOOK THAT CHILD IS THE QUILTY ONE.

Not to mention the other little girl I only learnt of this morning.... and to follow up on another message.
Shut up, and leave them alone. They certainly do not need to be hurt anymore than they are.... and certainly not *the worlds greatest parents* as you appear to think you are.

I have lost all four of my children at different times.... and ~I was standing right beside them.
Tell me that has never happened to any of you??

I was lucky, and blessed.... other mothers have not been.

What am I doing even answering you all?

Nobody and I mean nobody.....has irrefutably confirmed that a 'person or persons unknown' went into that room and took Madeline...............

I just wanted to saythis, because whatever your views on the McCanns (and I agree with some of what all of you say) there has been NO evidence that I have seen/heard that she was actually 'taken'.

Rosex