Comments on: I Can’t Help Find Madeleine, So Stop Asking

By: JackP

JackP — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:00:03 +0000

@Anonymous:
I’m guessing you’re using Internet Explorer 6 (or possibly a modified version of it used as a base for a company-branded internet browser)?Internet Explorer 6 has a rendering bug that results in the visible part of the column seemingly getting narrower - is that the problem you’re experiencing?

It’s not a problem with Internet Explorer 7, Firefox or Opera, so to be honest I’ve not worried about it too much.

If you want any help/advice on upgrading to a different browser, use the contact form and I’ll be happy to offer you advice.
cheers

I’m again going to disable comments on this because there’s no actual news at the moment, and it appears that this is becoming the very talking shop I was criticising the media for…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:51:51 +0000

Sorry - why is it I can’t read the later replies??? There seems to be a loss at start and end of comments.

I agree with many of the different opinions and the original viewpoint. Personally I can’t see how these parents could leave three children unattended and then state ‘…we had absolutely nothing to do with our daughter’s disappearance.’

For all those with children - would you/have you done the same??

When the media circus grinds to a halt they will always have to live with what they didn’t do… It is simply a tragedy that has got way out of control and all parties to me appear to have forgotten Madeleine!

By: Herbert

Herbert — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:22:21 +0000

I don’t know if the Mccans have something to do with the disappearance or not and this is not what matters either. Maybe we never will know - but I think that all the circus about the girl made things worse.
If Madeleine was or is alive no one would go outside with her but kill her to destroy all possible trace. But other boys and girls are out there and they are alive. Everybody talks now about ONE girl and the others don’t exist any longer. That’s a pity!
I don’t understand either how the Mccans could give tranquillizers to their children. No feeling mother or father could do this and they pretend to be Catholics. This is quite incredible to me.
I really hope that Madeleine is alive but I can’t believe it any longer and I really hope someone would start a campaign not for ONE girl but for all the missing children in this world. And all those who gave money for finding Madeleine should give the same that other children could be found and this IS possible.

By: Helena

Helena — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:33:55 +0000

I still can’t believe that the parents did it but then I can’t believe they chose a legal representative that represented that murderous traitor Pinochet. I also find it unbelievable that they left the children at home whilst they sought an entertaining evening with friends. It wasn’t a quick 50m dash to a place in eyesight from where they were enjoying themselves but a rather circuitous route to a place out of direct sight from the restaurant.

Somebody or somebodies out there know what really happened and I hope that the people responsible feel the full weight of the law. If the parents are innocent, I hope it soon becomes apparent what happened so at least they know. And I hope if she is still alive, that she is being looked after well. If anyone knows anything, please tell now even if it is anonymously.

By: vicki

vicki — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:18:01 +0000

Sorry for the spelling errors, but thats me, can’t help it,
I also wanted to add to my comments above, that if you know anything about this child and know who took her or were she is, please call the police, please help bring this little girl home. Its not to late to come forward.

By: vicki bosher

vicki bosher — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:09:06 +0000

Hello,

I think you comment about the back ground o9f the family is right, but and its a big but, I think the reason why people like me, (who happens to live on a council esatate and have a very working class back ground and a simple job) are supporting the McCann’s has nothing to do with what they do for a living. Its because the family have made sure no one can get away from that childs face, she is everywhere. Maddie’s face and the search has been on the TV and in the papers every day. I don’t think there will be a person in the world who has access to TV and papers would not know who she was. Not everyone’s family would pull out all the stops andf get her face out there. This child is loved very much, Its crazy to think they had anything to do with her going missing. Why would they draw so much atteention to them? how did they get rid of her body? All these people are fguilty of is, as you say leaving them alone, and my got what a price they are paying, but worse, so much worse for that little girl, what ever has happened to her. I pray every day that today is the day she comes home.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:35:09 +0000

God bless Madeleine wherever she might be (dead or alive) and God Bless all those children who are missing (faceless), and all those children who have become orphans due to famine, war or violence who have like the Mccans lost someone they love and with no one to guide them through their struggles in life.
They also deserve our prayers as much as Madeleine, and they also deserve news coverage to hightlight the kind of world we live in. Can the society we live in get any worse?
Whatever the outcome for the Mccans they will have to live with their guilt for the rest of their lives because they left their children HOME ALONE!!!!!

By: Katiewoo

Katiewoo — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:18:19 +0000

sorry CHANGE not chang and in the last sentence CAN not can’t.

I HATE SPELLING MISTAKES!

By: Katiewoo

Katiewoo — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:15:03 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly with WOMBLE.

The bottom line is that 3 young children should not have been left on their own whatever the circumstances. For the McCann parents to say that it wasn’t that far from where they were eating/we were checking on them was a risk. So risky that they no longer have their daughter with them. I just can’t understand why they didn’t take them with them to the restaurant?!?!?!

I do not even leave my 10 month old daughter alone with our 2 year old labrador, the most gentle dog in the world because children are inquisitive - they pick things up and put them in their mouths and explore without knowing the consequences in advance. He is a good dog but what if she pulls his ear and hurts him and he retaliates?

I know we are only human and we can only do our best and we have our own lives to live but we need to try to eliminate all risks when it comes to our children. My mother is the only person I trust to look after my daughter and the only reason why I can’t leave her with my Mother-in-law is because she has dreadful arthritis and can’t bend down to chang my daughter’s nappy and she lives 4 hours away in Newcastle.

Parents are solely responsible for their children. You have to weigh up the risks, but surely leaving your child with someone is better than leaving them with no one in the case of the McCanns?

Whatever has happened from the moment they left her is their fault and nobody elses. And it doesn’t matter how much they say they are protective etc - if they HAD been this would not have happened.

All the media hype surrounding this case seems to have turned the McCanns into heroic figures, the words you constantly see is ‘battling on’. In this new world we seem to have celebrities of a different kind. Whether it’s Jade Goody being famous for being on Big Brother and being thick (although I actually quite like her) or someone being famous because they had sex with a politician we live in a foreign world now where bored people feed on the misery of others (including me I’m ashamed to say).

Whatever their intention when they involved the media in their daughter’s disappearance, they are probably the most notorious couple in the press at this time so this only adds the story. And yes I suppose Madeleine is a pretty little girl and Kate McCann is attractive.

As a lot of people on here have posted , the whole saga has become very much like that of Princess Diana but with more effect in that it doesn’t end because they haven’t found her. Lies and hearsay (not the band) continue to fuel the voracious media attention and reports containing spurious vague facts.

I don’t know what to believe, but I believe that the truth will come out, even if it takes years. But I don’t think that we ‘the baying public’ can’t wait years can we?

By: Lesley_jc

Lesley_jc — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:26:54 +0000

I do feel sorry for the parents to a certain extent but at the end of the day we are in Britain what are we supposed to do???
It doesnt mean we don’t care etc but life goes on and like many other people have stated that there are millions of missing people around the world and there not getting any amount of attention this is recieving!!!
At the end of the day she shouldn’t of been left on her own I wouldn’t dream of going for a meal and leaving my son on his own!!!
I do hope she is fount safely but I don’t think that is going to happen and I don’t think many other people do either!
Maybe its time the media etc left them alone and let them and the police try and find her or put closer to all of it and let them grieve for there daughter on there own!!!!