Okay so it was a year on 2 days ago since Madeline McCann was kidnapped from her hotel room in Portugal. Yes it's very sad how much pain the mother and father and the rest of their family must be going through, but there is something so fishy about that whole story. Now the UK tabloids haven't slated the parents onced about what they have done. The mom and dad left their children in their hotel room with probably electrical equipment and strong substances lying around that room. Their excuse for doing it was that the children were getting tired and that Maddie's feet were sore from walking, and it was their holiday to so they left them in the room. They could have easily just took them into the restuarant so they could fall asleep in their push buggy. And if Maddie was going to run about you can easily just get up and fetch her, after all it is your child! Now I have been on many holidays and I know for sure that there are Creche's for you to keep your child in if you want to go to the bar for a drink, so what was so wrong with maybe putting them in one of them. And how many people would be walking around a hotel, why would a kidnapper go to that particular door. Now I'm not saying that they have payed someone off to get rid of her, or that they killed her. But me and my grandma have been talking about it, and we maybe think that she gave Maddie a sleeping pill so she could get her to sleep, I still don't think she would do that because a child wouldn't be able to handle it. Or while she was out, Maddie's had an accident and she has panicked and dumped her body. Some people aren't thinking these things because they think she is such a cute little girl. Forget about that and stop being so sympathetic towards her mom, she has been stupid enough to leave her children unsuperviced.

There have been many derogatory/critical articles about the parents, especially as a backlash to all the sympathy/coverage they got in comparison to other missing persons and then after they met the Pope. However, they generally turned sympathetic again after the native police officially made them suspects.

I agree on the creche point. I am undecided on this case.

There has very recently been a case of drunk British parents being negligent towards their children on holiday in Portugal where the children had to be taken into care until they could be reunited with the parents. Not only should they known better as parents, you'd think they would have learned from the Madeline situation.

Yeah, I don't understand why some parents don't think? If my mum had done anything like that to me when I was younger I would never be able to forgive her, if you know what I mean? The stuff going on in this World is mind-blowing. Some people are just so thoughtless and cruel towards children. Reading most of the stories in the papers now is so sickening, it turns my stomach.