To send this link around the net:
http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com/news/
I know this will need to be sent to the Off Topic Forum. Thanks for bearing with me here.
Jersey Girl
Meeting the request of a friend (missing child)
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Meeting the request of a friend (missing child)
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liz3564 wrote:I'm moving it, but we'll leave a shadow trailer so people on this main board will see it. I also fixed the link.
I hope your friend finds her little girl. What a nightmare!
It's not my friends child. A friend asked that it be circulated it though.
Thanks for leaving traces of this in this forum.
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This little girl was taken from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz. Her parents are from the UK.
I think the parents were yards away from their room in the evening, checking on the kids (Madeleine has two younger siblings)
regularly while they slept.
I think it is a timely reminder to us not to leave our children, or let them out of our site.
I think the parents will be totally beating themselves up over this. They are both Doctors. I don't know, maybe they
wanted a few minutes on their own. But I honestly don't understand why they left the kids alone in the room?
I just hope that whatever opportunist took Maddeleine will return her. It must have been someone who was on site.
I know the sniffer dogs traced Madeleines scent to another room, and the police are following all lines of enquiries.
The Golden Hour was missed on this occassion for whatever reason. It's now been about 9 day.
My one hope is that rather than a paedophile ring, a couple who noted the children had been left, and perhaps had lost one of their own,
or were childless, decided they could take better care?
I don't know.
My thoughts are with those parents. They are truly in one hell of a place at the moment, that no parent could even to bear think about.
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I think the parents were yards away from their room in the evening, checking on the kids (Madeleine has two younger siblings)
regularly while they slept.
I think it is a timely reminder to us not to leave our children, or let them out of our site.
I think the parents will be totally beating themselves up over this. They are both Doctors. I don't know, maybe they
wanted a few minutes on their own. But I honestly don't understand why they left the kids alone in the room?
I just hope that whatever opportunist took Maddeleine will return her. It must have been someone who was on site.
I know the sniffer dogs traced Madeleines scent to another room, and the police are following all lines of enquiries.
The Golden Hour was missed on this occassion for whatever reason. It's now been about 9 day.
My one hope is that rather than a paedophile ring, a couple who noted the children had been left, and perhaps had lost one of their own,
or were childless, decided they could take better care?
I don't know.
My thoughts are with those parents. They are truly in one hell of a place at the moment, that no parent could even to bear think about.
Mary
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A friendly reminder to parents with small children...
If your kids are below the age of 12, then either A. don't take them to foriegn countries, or B. be prepared to supervise them at all times.
While I sympathize with the parents, I still have to ask what in the hell they were thinking?
If your kids are below the age of 12, then either A. don't take them to foriegn countries, or B. be prepared to supervise them at all times.
While I sympathize with the parents, I still have to ask what in the hell they were thinking?
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Mr Coffee.
It's actually illegal to leave you children unsupervised at home, over here in the UK. I think the age is something like 14 and under (don't quote me on that). The reason I know that is that a 12 year old neighbour was left at home during the day while his mum and dad went out to work, he being ill with a cold. In the meantime burglars saw no cars in the drive and decided to burgle their house.
Luckily for the lad, they scarpered when they heard him get up upstairs, but the police ended up cautioning the parents for leaving the child at 12 and there was talk of a prosecution. (not sure if it was followed through)
I just don't know why they left these kids. Perhaps there was a babysitting service. Perhaps they are busy doctors with a young family who wanted time on their own. They are intelligent people, they obviously trusted the resort. Which is a family resort with a babysitting service. (Mark Warner Resorts)
Portugal is pretty safe for holiday makers, like Cyprus which has a 2% crime rate, incredibly low. Perhaps the parents factored this in to their decision. They say they were only yards away, and having been to a few of these types of holiday resorts, it may be that their room was in eye shot as they were eating?
I don't know the full details.
I don't know that I have ever left my son alone, I'm just too paranoid about the whole thing despite the fact that these incidences are incredibly rare. 50 years ago, mums used to leave the prams outside because prams weren't allowed in shops. No-one in their right mind would do that now. How times have changed....
It's actually illegal to leave you children unsupervised at home, over here in the UK. I think the age is something like 14 and under (don't quote me on that). The reason I know that is that a 12 year old neighbour was left at home during the day while his mum and dad went out to work, he being ill with a cold. In the meantime burglars saw no cars in the drive and decided to burgle their house.
Luckily for the lad, they scarpered when they heard him get up upstairs, but the police ended up cautioning the parents for leaving the child at 12 and there was talk of a prosecution. (not sure if it was followed through)
I just don't know why they left these kids. Perhaps there was a babysitting service. Perhaps they are busy doctors with a young family who wanted time on their own. They are intelligent people, they obviously trusted the resort. Which is a family resort with a babysitting service. (Mark Warner Resorts)
Portugal is pretty safe for holiday makers, like Cyprus which has a 2% crime rate, incredibly low. Perhaps the parents factored this in to their decision. They say they were only yards away, and having been to a few of these types of holiday resorts, it may be that their room was in eye shot as they were eating?
I don't know the full details.
I don't know that I have ever left my son alone, I'm just too paranoid about the whole thing despite the fact that these incidences are incredibly rare. 50 years ago, mums used to leave the prams outside because prams weren't allowed in shops. No-one in their right mind would do that now. How times have changed....
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Miss T, my point was that taking small children into foriegn nations is a recipe for disaster. In the case of the couple in the OP, they decided that a little "alone time" was more important that parental responsiblility. Even worse, they are apperently complacent little morons, since they ASSUMED that it was safe to do so because they were at a tourist resort.
Assumtion is the Mother of all Fuck-Ups, and this familly has hopefully learned this lesson while having two out of three kids alive and still in their custody. Hard way to learn that lesson, but maybe now they will take their duties as parents seriously and stop taking chances with their children's safety. As I said, while I am sympathetic, I am still very much aware that this is their own damned fault for being complacent.
Until they turned 14 and started to get of a size to properly defend themselves, along with a lot of self-defense training and some extremely liberal ROEs from me, I never let my boys out of my sight when ever we traveled to another country. Even supposedly safe NATO-allied nations like Soviet Canuckistan and the Peoples Republic of the UK. I never assume anything where my children's safety is concerned (or my own safety for that matter).
Assumtion is the Mother of all Fuck-Ups, and this familly has hopefully learned this lesson while having two out of three kids alive and still in their custody. Hard way to learn that lesson, but maybe now they will take their duties as parents seriously and stop taking chances with their children's safety. As I said, while I am sympathetic, I am still very much aware that this is their own damned fault for being complacent.
Until they turned 14 and started to get of a size to properly defend themselves, along with a lot of self-defense training and some extremely liberal ROEs from me, I never let my boys out of my sight when ever we traveled to another country. Even supposedly safe NATO-allied nations like Soviet Canuckistan and the Peoples Republic of the UK. I never assume anything where my children's safety is concerned (or my own safety for that matter).
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