My sympathy is wearing thin...
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So if your kids are playing in a field next to your house, are you not guilty of neglect whilst you can actually see them running about, but liable to the baying masses if something happens to them whilst they're climbing up a tree just out of sight or something similar?
In my mind i'd be VERY sorry if each and every case of something happening to kids while they weren't in literal eyesight of the parents became litigant. I hate nanny states.
In my mind i'd be VERY sorry if each and every case of something happening to kids while they weren't in literal eyesight of the parents became litigant. I hate nanny states.
Certainly not in a field almost a hundred meters away while I dined and drank occasionally going to check up on them when I felt I could drag myself away......
The parents are culpable here and a strong message needs to be sent out that it isn't acceptable.
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Personally i think the profile fo the case has sent enough of a message to parents everywhere. I'm not sure that a prosecution would make much, if any, difference now.
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Like i say, a witchhunt. Everybody KNOWS they've fcuked up, everybody KNOWS there's a case for prosecution, everybody KNOWS they're going to be subject to legal interrogation if they do something similar. I'm no laywer and probably a good thing, but as i say i don't believe throwing the book at the McCanns in this instance will be in anyone's interests, other than for those who want to see them punished further.
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We could go round in cirlces all day. Legally, you're correct, nobody's denying that. But "extraneous circumstances", "public interest", call it what you will. In my opinion it's not a straightforward black and white send-them-down case, that's all. Cheers.
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However, there'd be a lot more sympathy for the family if they'd simply put up their hands and said what we did was careless and whilst we could never have foreseen an abduction, toddlers shouldn't be left unattended in situations like this.
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So Snazy's 8 per hour only puts him 1343 per week out...
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FCD, i hear what you're saying, but it just seems a little bizarre to me that your opinion of the parents would be swayed if they undertook some sort of public relations or awareness programme?? Do they HAVE to be put in the limelight any more than they have? I'm not sure whether they've ever actually cited what you want to hear publically but if they haven't then i'm pretty sure they're thinking along those lines at the very least!!
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FCD, i hear what you're saying, but it just seems a little bizarre to me that your opinion of the parents would be swayed if they undertook some sort of public relations or awareness programme?? Do they HAVE to be put in the limelight any more than they have? I'm not sure whether they've ever actually cited what you want to hear publically but if they haven't then i'm pretty sure they're thinking along those lines at the very least!!
Personally, I disliked their initial attacks on the Police as if attempting to shift blame for their own irresponsibility. They alluded to windows that had been forced open which was later disproved - it almost seems as if they've tried to justify their inaction by coming up with excuses. Its linked to my current beef with people in the UK, many of whom seem incapable of taking responsibility for their own actions - someone else is always to blame.
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A point i would like to raise is, Where is the proof the girl has been abducted ?
We, the press, the world are taking the parents word that their daughter was abducted, there has been no factual proof she was abducted.
They admit Daddy was the last to see her in the room asleep, at conflicting times by the way and he telephoned his sister in the UK within minutes of the child dissapearing using the words ''Maddie has been abducted'' how many of us with children have used this word when one of your kids has gone into a friends house and not told you and you get that pannicky moment when you cant find them.
Missing maybe but not abducted, from moment one of all this, the father has never 'seemed' that upset to me.
Just my point of view of course and as a parent i would like a happy resolution but lets be honest do we honestly think its going to happen.
We, the press, the world are taking the parents word that their daughter was abducted, there has been no factual proof she was abducted.
They admit Daddy was the last to see her in the room asleep, at conflicting times by the way and he telephoned his sister in the UK within minutes of the child dissapearing using the words ''Maddie has been abducted'' how many of us with children have used this word when one of your kids has gone into a friends house and not told you and you get that pannicky moment when you cant find them.
Missing maybe but not abducted, from moment one of all this, the father has never 'seemed' that upset to me.
Just my point of view of course and as a parent i would like a happy resolution but lets be honest do we honestly think its going to happen.
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Tel, its not neccessarily my opinion I'm stating but more of an attempt to explain why I think there is a lack of sympathy by many on here.
Personally, I disliked their initial attacks on the Police as if attempting to shift blame for their own irresponsibility. They alluded to windows that had been forced open which was later disproved - it almost seems as if they've tried to justify their inaction by coming up with excuses. Its linked to my current beef with people in the UK, many of whom seem incapable of taking responsibility for their own actions - someone else is always to blame.
Personally, I disliked their initial attacks on the Police as if attempting to shift blame for their own irresponsibility. They alluded to windows that had been forced open which was later disproved - it almost seems as if they've tried to justify their inaction by coming up with excuses. Its linked to my current beef with people in the UK, many of whom seem incapable of taking responsibility for their own actions - someone else is always to blame.
could nto agree more, more poeple need to take responsibility for their actions and the consequences of their actions, cause and effect and all that.
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