Serial police botherer, Kate McCann, is reported as being ‘Disappointed in the Home Secretary’ for failing to throw even more police resources at what many people feel is a fruitless search for Kate’s missing daughter, Madelaine McCann.
‘I can’t get my head round the Government giving up on Madeleine’, said Kate McCann. ‘Why are missing children not important? They look for terrorists, why can’t they look for child abductors?’
What?
Let’s look at some indisputable, documented facts for a minute:
- In 2007, Mr & Mrs McCann took three children on holiday to a foreign country
- Whilst there, they left all three children unattended, out of sight and unmonitored
- One of the children, a three-year-old girl, mysteriously disappeared from the unattended holiday apartment, while the parents were enjoying a meal at a restaurant*
- The local police mounted a search
- The national police mounted a search
- Considerable British diplomatic and police resources have been expended investigating, checking and validating the details in this sorry episode
- Kate McCann wants more done
* I’m discounting the view that the McCanns ‘regularly checked’ on the children. This is not a fact backed up by evidence, it is a statement. All of the above bullet points are facts, not statements, and I’m concentrating on facts.
And speaking of facts, Mrs McCann has said she doesn’t understand why terrorists are more important to look for than one missing child?
Clearly, this woman’s stupidity doesn’t end with leaving three children unattended in a foreign country.
If I had my way Mr & Mrs McCann would be charged (and with the outstanding weight of evidence available to us, which is very clearly against them), would be swiftly found guilty of multiple child abandonment.
For this woman to compare a terrorist with a missing child underlines the gulf of her disconnect from the real world.
So I’ll spell it out.
A missing child = one life. A child missing through criminally poor parenting, is still one life.
A terrorist, as has been clearly demonstrated, could take many lives.
It’s time the British media pulled the plug on Kate McCann, she’s clearly unwell.
Or perhaps it’s time she was charged for her criminal offence. Let’s include wasting police time to the charge of child neglect.
I was horrified when I saw the seemingly never ending round of TV news interviews yesterday.
The sceptic in me remains convinced that they know more about what happened than they have ever admitted.
While I feel for any parent who has lost a child (careless and avoidable as this particular incident was – and that’s being kind), it is time for the McCanns to stop their relentless calls for money for this. They’ve had three years’ of police time and public money. If they want to continue their search, fine. Use the media all you like to drum up DONATIONS from people, but this isn’t for the tax payer. Budgets are being slashed left, right and centre, we are all feeling an intense economic squeeze. Kate, stop your bleating. If people want to donate to help the cause, that’s their decision but I am not one of them and I am uncomfortable with any more of my hard earned taxes going towards this.
I agree with Perps, something went on there that they know about.
Ummm. I have to disagree I am afraid… purely because I believe the principle that ‘he is without sin may cast the first stone’. All of us who have kids have taken risk at some point. We might have left them strapped in the car seat whilst we nipped into the supermarket, left them unattended in the front garden whilst we cut the grass in the back, taken our eye off then whilst we are chatting to a friend at the park ….. you get the picture. Whether it is at home or abroad, it doesn’t matter.
We’ve all taken these calculated risks and we got lucky. The McCanns didn’t. I totally feel for her. I cannot imagine anything worse on the whole planet than my child going missing with no answers.
Plus, the Portugese investigation was found to be lower than sub-standard.
Whilst what happened to the McCann’s is undoubtedly terrible, we can’t keep throwing money at this indefinitely. Money spent on this case could be spent on trying to find kids that there IS a chance of getting back. I don’t have kids so I’m not really in a position to judge them but I do know that on family holidays we were never left alone in a hotel room or caravan while our parents went elsewhere. This is possibly more to do with the fact that we’d have kicked lumps out if each other than anything else but we went out to dinner together then (because we used to mainly holiday in caravans) we’d all get together at one family’s van and we’d play around it while the parents had a few beers. If we were tired we’d crash on the sofas in said van and parents would carry us home when they were done. I’m sure they regret every day what went on but blaming the police, the Portuguese authorities and the world at large for the fact she isn’t with them won’t change anything and every penny that is spent by the British authorities dealing with Kate McCann’s demands is money that can’t be spent looking for another person’s child. I agree with the person above, if she wants to continue the campaign it should be finded by voluntary donations, not tax money.
Harsh, but fair. Like a Tory, but harder.
Annie; we have to agree to disagree on this.
Ash; see, here’s the thing. When I worked in social services – as a junior and later a senior member of staff – we allowed a certain amount of poor judgement before we stepped in and delivered intervention. Leave not one, not two, but three children unattended in a foreign country falls so far outside of any definition of of ‘acceptable child care’, that it warrants an immediate investigation, custody of the children whilst the investigation is carried out and, depending on the results of the investigation, supervised parental access, parenting education or, possibly, temporary custody of the children for up to six months.
Mrs McCann has made so many errors of judgement in this matter that she has exposed herself as being, in my view, an unfit parent. The scary thing is this woman is a GP, which beggars belief.
The Children Act (1989) [as amended] was introduced to safeguard and protect children. The Act can inflict fearsome penalties on those in charge of children, who fail to meet acceptable standards of child welfare. As soon as someone can explain to me why leaving three children alone in a strange room in a foreign country is beneficial to the welfare and well-being of those children, I will reconsider Mrs McCann’s behaviour. But until then, there can only be one possible school of thought. My hardcore view is nothing to do with politics and everything to do with my years in child care.
I don’t disagree with your conclusions on this but I am uncomfortable with your views of Kate McCann. There is a point where continuing to spend money on something is not going to be worthwhile regardless how tragic or upsetting the circumstances.
I don’t know the McCanns at all and if I did know them, they might well not be my cup of tea but that’s a long way from being comfortable with the description of Kate McCann as ‘a serial police botherer’.
For myself, I think their behaviour is entirely consistent with intelligent, loving parents who have lost a young daughter. When my daughter was very young we were driving home from holiday – part of the journey round the M25. It was only when we got home that I realised that I had forgotten to buckle her into the car seat. We all make mistakes and are at times negligent and selfish as parents. Most of the time we get away with it. Occasionally we don’t and that thing we couldn’t imagine happening to us does happen, and our grief and reactions are amplified by our knowledge of our own actions.
Kate McCann’s statements about terrorism may well show a lack of perspective (although I find soupy’s “Kate, stop your bleating” a fairly despicable remark) but I think if your young daughter disappears you’re entitled to more than a little loss of perspective.