Comments on: Madeleine McCann — Portuguese Police Give Up

By: Dessiegee

Dessiegee — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:02:25 +0000

Lazy Parents ,Lazy Cops, Lazy Journalists

I stopped buying newspapers months ago because I’d had enough of the “Maddie” saga and the “Katie French” bullshit.

By: Bock

Bock — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:17:54 +0000

The McCanns certainly didn’t meet their responsibilities and they’ll suffer for that failure until the day they die, but these people who set themselves up as judge and jury are contributing northing. They’re only satisfying their own desperate need to feel adequate, like that gobshite who calls himself Stalin, commenting on the other McCann posts here.

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:05:32 +0000

How do you combat stranger danger when your children are asleep? In a foreign country it’s hot, you leave windows open, children are not in their full senses when they first wake up, they dont cry out, they just cuddle in, my heart goes out to the Mc Cann family but I think the decision to leave young children alone in a foreign place is very wrong. my sympathies to the family.

By: Bock

Bock — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:52:48 +0000

The point I’m making is this. If a child is knocked down, you won’t find too many people condemning the parents for failing to keep their child off the road. The general reaction is one of sympathy for their loss.

By: Shannaboley

Shannaboley — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:25:46 +0000

The first night they left the children on their own someone noticed and the second night someone took advantage of their foolishness.

Bock children that are knocked down are not left alone in a foreign country in a hotel room while you have dinner and wine pool side with your friends.I feel nothing but sadness for them I can only assume they are tortured by it.There was a time in every housing estate in limerick where you would run into young mothers at the shops or picking up other young kids from school that had left sleeping toddlers at home in the cot. You could once go into Roches stores and having the pickings of any baby at the end of the stairs, they were lined up in their prams.

By: Richard Slater

Richard Slater — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:32:56 +0000

I have to admit being taken in by the press last September (i believe) when the stories “broke” that the mother was a suspect and the father helped cover it up. I have become totally cynical when it comes to “breaking news” of any sort.

Innocent until proven guilty and fuck all the breaking developments!

By: Bock

Bock — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:04:21 +0000

To each his own.

By: dan dare

dan dare — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:57:13 +0000

I hope you’re not suggesting there’s something wrong with wanking.

By: Bock

Bock — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:28:26 +0000

Gilly: The McCanns have responsibility as parents, but whoever abducted the child is guilty of the crime. That’s the vital difference that people don’t seem able to grasp.

Before they start to point fingers at the McCanns for failing as parents, they’d better be very sure their own parenting record is 100% perfect. And if they’re not parents at all, like some of the commenters, then they don’t know what they’re talking about.

The self-righteous hypocrisy is amazing. Would these people be equally judgemental of parents whose child had been knocked down?

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:49:55 +0000

Bock I think we shall just have to agree to disagree.