Where Art Thou Madeleine?
Despite initially claiming that they would remain in Portugal to clear their names, it’s being reported that the parents of Madeleine McCann are now flying back home to Britain.
It is worth noting, I think, that the McCann’s have effectively been on an extended holiday without work (no doubt on full pay,) for the past one hundred and twenty nine days since their daughter mysteriously disappeared from their holiday hotel room in the Algarve..
Public media criticism of the McCann’s has often been muted and condemned by others. Being both NHS Doctors, the many see the family as beyond criticism because they must automatically be good people if they work for the National Health Employment Bureaucracy.
However, for example, if one of your children had just been snatched from your hotel room, would you then keep a constant eye on your other children or would you place them in a local Portuguese day-care centre with a bunch of complete strangers while you searched for your ‘missing’ daughter? Needless to say the McCann’s chose the latter.
If it does eventually turn out that Gerry and Kate McCann in some way killed or contributed to the death of their daughter, then there are going to be a lot of very angry people throughout Europe. As it stands, it would be unprecedented if Madeleine were found alive and well, and it appears increasingly likely that she has been murdered – though I thought that right from day one, because unfortunately they usually are in these cases.
It’s also sad to say that this whole kidnapping affair, and now increasingly likely - murder investigation, has been completely over the top and grossly out of proportion. The media at large hasn’t had a child or human tragedy story for a while, much in the style of the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman whose lives were so callously and brutally snuffed out by the monstrous psychopath Ian Huntley. Presented with another chance to raise newspaper sales and increase ratings, the news corporations have engaged in a widespread outpouring of collective grief, with almost non-stop coverage of the latest events.
At the same time, the McCann family seem to have willingly obliged the media’s lust for keeping the bandwagon story rolling by jetting all over the world to appeal for the support and money to keep up the search for their missing daughter, including an audience with his holiness the Pope at the Vatican and numerous appearances on television stations in different European countries. All very strange if you ask me.
The loss of a greatly loved child for anyone is a tragic event almost unimaginable, and the grief and anguish the McCann’s must be living with every day unbearable. This makes the, at times, faux anger and sympathy expressed by the newspapers and televised media in this country surrounding this case quite contemptible.
Sad thought this whole sorry saga may be, many hundreds of children go missing in this country every year without so much as a squeak from the media. Unlike Madeline, little effort will be placed into searching for them, and most will never be seen again. That is the real and ongoing tragedy.
Your Comments:
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I find it hilarious that the McCanns now ask for their “privacy to be respected” after all that campaigning deliberately designed to put them in the papers, and Mrs McCann’s slightly suspicious Heat Magazine interview.
I also find it hilarious that they saw fit to leave their three children on their own, even though there had been a burglary in the same area only a couple of weeks before, and despite, reportedly, Madeleine’s nightly persistant crying.
I have no sympathy for these people, only for the girl herself, who is not only a victim of her kidnapper/killer, but also of the ignorance and idiocy of her parents.
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I didn’t see the Heat Magazine interview, but what I do find odd is how both the parents seem so calm at what should be such a difficult time for them.
There was a German woman that interviewed them on the radio and commented ‘Either they are very good actors or they are telling the truth’. I think that sounds about right.
