Madeline McCann

What is everyone's opinions on what happened to this sweet little girl?

Hmmmmm while i feel for the family, and what they went/are going through, i cant help but wonder why the hell they left the kids in the first place.

all theories but i think she got snatched and is still alive living as someone elses child. I just hope they are taking care of her!

I really don't know what to think...

To start with I would never ever leave children alone no matter how old they are. I am totally stumped though as to why she was the one "taken" when there were other children sleeping in the same hotel room as her.

Why they didnt get a babysitter or a nanny or someone to mind the kids that night I just do not understand.

I also can't help but think that maybe the parents had some sort of involvement in the whole thing... as they are obviously STUPID leaving their little girl and their other children un-watched.

Wasn't their no sign of a break-in.... ????



Edited by Training2bAnanny

I dont know how they could have left their children alone (especially in a foreign country ) however , I think whats happened has been punishment enough and obviously if they could turn the clock back now , and change it , they would .

I think the portuguese police did a pretty sh*t job quite frankly and decided to put the blame on the parents because it was the easier thing to do , all their so called "evidence" led to nothing , and i find it really hard to believe that people who went through fertility treatment to concieve her , would kill her either purposely or accidentally , and I find it very hard to believe that if they did kill her accidentally that they would just leave her body , and not give her a proper funeral .
Im not naive, and im not an idiot, I know that in a lot of cases the parents are responsible, but I dont believe that in this case.

I dont think she'll ever be found , i dont know whether i think shes dead or alive, but I dont think she'll ever come home .
Having your child missing and no answers , must be the most awful feeling in the world, I wouldnt like to be in their shoes

hmm i really don't know i often wondered why she was the one taken while there were others kids in the room. I would have though they would have heard or seen something unless they were either threatened to keep quiet or it was somebody who knew them. i do hope though that If and only if she is still alive she is well looked after. if it is found that its the alternative them i am sure she is looking down on here family.

At first I thought she'd been murdered, but as there has been no body found, I'm thinking more along the kidnapping idea.
I've travelled through Portugal they have their own rules quite different from english speaking countries.
I can't understand why they didn't get a baby sitter either, surely it wouldn't be that difficult in a hotel.

Last year, in England , there was a girl who was abducted, she came from a poorer background,and there was heaps of complaints that she didnt recieve as much coverage as Madeleine McCann .
They found this girl , alive , thank God , tho who knows what long term damage she will suffer .
Personally , while I can see why people get upset because Madeleine McCann got so much coverage and others dont, to me it doesnt matter, take away the white upperclass background and leave the bare facts ,and Madeleine is just like any other child,alone and scared (if she is still alive) and far from her home .
Thats a sad thing .

I dont want to pass judgement on her parents, while sometimes to me the mother looks a bit ...."hard" , i do not know what it is like to have your daughter missing , whilst having to provide some sort of stability for your remaining children .

There was an article last year, that put so many holes in the Portuguese policy theory it was funny .
Perhaps it will be years and years til we get any answers, but , like the case of JonBenet Ramsay , answers eventually come , somehow , (not that they have found HER killer, but they have finally found DNA on her underpants that belonged to an outside source and her parents finally cleared )
One day perhaps we'll have answers to this case too

I was living in the UK when she went missing and I don't know what the coverage was like in NZ, but boy oh boy did I get sick of this story.

I'm not sure I think - it's a tragedy and I know the parents are an easy target - but I always found it weird how in the days following Madeleine's disappearance, her mother always appeared on the camera looking totally immaculate - and I'm talking matching her earrings and bracelet immaculate, if it was me I'd be falling apart ... and how she didn't go out looking for Madeleine, again if it was me I'd go crazy waiting around at home while everyone else was out looking.

It's easy to try and discredit the Portuguese police as not being as credible as the UK police, for example, but I find it hard to believe they'd manufacture evidence to blame the parents, when obviously that would be unpopular foreign-relations wise.

On the leaving your child alone in a hotel. We encountered this just last weekend. At Camp with Playcentre. Everyone put their kids to bed at about 7 and then we went and had food in the hall. Only two of us (we only have one child each) kept our kids up and had food with us so we went to bed a bit earlier than others.

I didnt know if it was because both of us is from South Africa (where it is just not done). Kids were fine, mums were fine. So I do think it is a cultural thing. I know we discussed this on another forum as well (SA one). And the people from other countries actually say that it happens quite often that kids get left in a hotel and the parents go out ect. Specially in Europe. If it is done by the majority usually you will feel pretty safe to do it as well, as that is what you grew up with.

My first reaction when I heard about the story was: How irresponsible to have left the kids. But thinking about it. That is what they most propably grew up with so who am I to judge that mom or dad.

I feel terribly sorry for them for not knowing either way what happened to their daughter. That must be the worst, the not knowing.

On the other kids not been taken. There can be loads of reasons. Perhaps it might have been someone that has lost a child recently of the same age as this girl. So therefore only took this girl ect.

I just think it is a very sad situation all around.