Madeleine McCann- Did her mother kill her?

babycakes · 07-09-2007, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by random

I ment the part that she was alone when she found her missing, or so I read in the beginning anyway....

I believe she was alone

Kay · 07-09-2007, 08:37 PM

I think this is dreadful that a mother could kill there own child but I have had doubts from the very beggining. Why leave children alone no matter how near the restaurant is? How could they then leave their twins in a nursery with near enough strangers? I would be too terrified of something happening to them that I wouldn't let them out of my sight. Why set up a fund, just what is the money for? It seems to me it is for them to go travelling around and meeting the Pope. How could they go walking along the beach so casually with all the press around them? I would be so devasted I just wouldn't be able to go out. They just don't seem to have acted like parents who have just had their daughter snatched they are far to calm.

I do hope I am totally wrong and that they are innocent but I have very grave doubts.

Kazz · 07-09-2007, 09:03 PM

I think a lot of it is the perception....public and media perception.

borderdawn · 07-09-2007, 09:14 PM

Your imagination starts to wander when things like this pop up. Imagine if she found her dead? an accident? I mean they know they would be in DEEP trouble at that, so they cover it up? Careers gone etc.. 2 respected doctors leaving their children alone etc. they stay there and say she is missing to save face?

I dont know, i just hope it isnt true, but somehow i think she may be responsible.

Jac · 07-09-2007, 09:19 PM

That's what gets me. I lost my son to SIDS (cot death) nearly 20 years ago. I still get emotional talking about him. In the first few months it was a nightmare. Yet they are so clam and Po faced

yola · 07-09-2007, 09:45 PM

I'm in 2 minds. They are using the media to raise awareness and to do this you need to remain calm and rational - exactly as has happened. That CAN be mistaken as being cold and uncaring.

However, taking away my professional assessment of the situation - I know if it were me I would have to be persuaded VERY hard (i.e., I would find it impossible) to maintain that degree of 'distance' and approach the fact that my child has been stolen. Even with my knowledge of how to deal with a media situation I would be completely beside myself and probably unable to function.

I know we're all different and maybe as doctors they are trained to approach things somewhat more dispassionately, but I have to admit to wondering HOW they remained so calm during all this time.

Kazz · 07-09-2007, 09:48 PM

I wonder what the truth is...and will we ever know.

babycakes · 07-09-2007, 09:52 PM

Sometimes when you are professional people with professionaly planned children (by that I mean they may have had IVF cos they wanted to be a 2.4 family and couldn't concieve rather than desperately wanted children if that makes sense) there is an air of distance. (look at the royal family). They act how they think they should rather than raw go to pieces people. I have seen that with parents you see. I don't know I know I wouldn't act like that even over my cat ( I don't have children ) But I also cry for days over children like Maddy, Jamie Bulger etc so I'm assuming I would be like you Jac.

dandysmom · 07-09-2007, 10:05 PM

I suspect well never know, sadly. Don't know if the Jon Benet Ramsey case got any coverage in the UK, a little daughter of wealthy midwestern parents found strangled in the basement of her own home a few years back...the parents were the obvious suspects, but there was no evidence to tie them to the case, and it remains unsolved to this day. The child was a Beauty pageant queen: her mother was one of those obsessive types and entered the poor little girl in all these contests, tarted up, loaded with makeup and unsuitable clothes: very sad. And her parents were the unemotional types on camera also.....

I too wonder if it was an accidental death and they did cover it up to save their careers/reputation?

yola · 07-09-2007, 10:14 PM

Yes Eileen - there was a documentary about her. Strange looking little girl, a bit Shirley Temple-esque. Always struck me slightly odd why call a little girl 'Jon'

I didn't watch it but saw trailers about it . . . didn't realise she had been murdered though

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