Madeleine McCann

Salvatore Cool BubbleMGS wrote: »

What’s disgusting is going out to dinner and leaving 3 small children alone in an apartment or hotel or whatever it was. If anyone else had done what they did they’d never see their children again. It’s absolute ****e.

But they were/are doctors. That matters.

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Babysitters can be hired and are. I know that's what my family members do when they go away with their young kids, and then go downstairs for a drink or two!

It is a small price to pay for peace of mind and shows they care a lot for their children too. Most hotels will provide babysitters if needed.

Toddler drowns at babysitter's house; twin brother on life support

And there are so many incidents with daycare, schools, babysitters, friends that one could post links all day long. 5hit happens - ask the McCanns.

cnocbui wrote: »

Toddler drowns at babysitter's house; twin brother on life support

And there are so many incidents with daycare, schools, babysitters, friends that one could post links all day long. 5hit happens - ask the McCanns.

Yes indeed accidents happen . In your link above she also should have been more careful . **** happens which is why adults try to avoid it happening their kids
Big big difference between an accident and leaving kids vulnerable and at risk
I think you actually know this and are well aware of the difference

retro:electro wrote: »

Ridiculous analogy. Being downstairs while your child is upstairs asleep is not even remotely the same as leaving them alone in a strange apartment (when they had cried and asked for you the night before) while you wine and dine yourself across the resort incapable of seeing or hearing a thing. Jesus my sister would barely leave her toddlers alone to hang the clothes out on the line. I’m aware there’s a massive divide in opinion in relation to whether or not people think they were involved; but I had assumed that their complete negligence of their children’s welfare that night is something we could all agree on.
How can anyone defend that?

Do you think they should have availed of the baby sitting service provided by the complex?

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

That's an absolutely ridiculous comment, but part of me thinks you knew that already.

It’s not ridiculous. Parents put children down for the night and they close the bedroom door and go to their own bedroom and go to sleep. Anything could happen any child in its own room while it’s parent is asleep or outside cutting the grass.
Unless you sit in your child’s bedroom while they sleep then they are being left unattended.
The children were all being checked at regular intervals, in a Rota involving 3 sets of parents that’s how she was discovered missing.
You prefer to imply that the children were dumped into bed and abandoned by careless unloving neglectful parents.
People seem to get particularly gleeful pleasure out of sitting in pious judgment over the McCanns because they were medical professionals who both came from very ordinary backgrounds, so working class kids made “good” so to speak.
This seems to irk a certain section of society, who in years gone by would have derided G McCann in particular as an “upstart”, cheeky and brash who’d “got above himself”.
The unfortunate woman who took her own life after being outed by Sky News as one of the internet trolls who spent vast hours trying to destroy Kate McCann was particularly irked by what she imagined was the lavish lifestyle Mrs McCann enjoyed as a GP married to a consultant cardiologist.
The disappeance of Maddie McCann. The gift that keeps on giving to those who sit and judge.

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

That's why sensible caring parents have either baby monitors within range, or CCTV in the kids bedrooms.

I think it is called responsible parenting.

So before there was CCTV or baby monitors parents were taking huge risks and being irresponsibly reckless every time their child napped?!?
You do know that there was a time before baby monitors....?!?

Salvatore Cool BubbleMGS wrote: »

What’s disgusting is going out to dinner and leaving 3 small children alone in an apartment or hotel or whatever it was. If anyone else had done what they did they’d never see their children again. It’s absolute ****e.

Leaving their children was wrong. Calling for them to lose their other children and to be incarcerated is frankly unhinged.

Dog Man Star wrote: »

If Madeline McCann had slept in a cot, she would be alive today.

Not many children of nearly 4 sleep in a cot, nor could they be confined to a cot ( my niece aged 30 months couldn’t be confined to a cot) but please, explain your theory.

Deusexmachina wrote: »

Leaving their children was wrong. Calling for them to lose their other children and to be incarcerated is frankly unhinged.

But it’s what the baying mob of pitchforking Mumsnet cave dwellers demanded.....

iamwhoiam wrote: »

There was indeed . I reared my eldest with no monitor . So his door was open , our door was open and we could hear him breathe . Our doors to the outside were locked , his window was locked and everytime we woke we peeped in to see he was ok . Its called keeping them as safe as you can in the circumstances

So you were asleep but you could hear your baby breathing. I see. So I assume that you consider all the parents who suffered a cot death to be neglectful because, well, they didn’t hear the baby had stopped breathing ?

splinter65 wrote: »

So you were asleep but you could hear your baby breathing. I see. So I assume that you consider all the parents who suffered a cot death to be neglectful because, well, they didn’t hear the baby had stopped breathing ?

I really hope you are not trolling.

There is a world of difference having your children in the next room, monitor or not, compared to leaving two babies and a child of four unattended in an unlocked apartment out of view. Come on now.