I was merely trying to thank Flutterby for the info as soon as I saw his/her post. I hadn’t read 55 until later and did not want to clutter up the thread with another post.
That tidbit makes it incomprehensible to me too, as a parent of a young child who gets into everything I couldn’t imagine leaving him alone for me to go have supper in a seperate building, even if I was sure he was sleeping. He’s woken up or looked like he was sleeping but when I close the door and listen from the next room I hear him talking to his puppy in his bed.
Good call, Anyrose! Question is – SVU, or Criminal Intent? So far, there’s no evidence that a sex crime actually took place, and it IS a high profile crime. Take the Ramsey case, for example – it was a sex crime, but the storyline ended up picked up by CI last season (when the twit claiming to be the guilty one came out of the woodwork). CI also handled the A.N. Smith fiasco. Not necessarily brilliantly.
But hey, your guess is right on the money, eyes have already been on this story at the Chelsea Piers since it all started…
Back to the OP: It’s a freakin’ MESS. It really doesn’t look good for the parents right now. The fact that they are trying to figure out what their legal status is and trying to leave the country also does not augur terribly well for them.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. That little girl deserves her story to be heard – deserves some form of justice. The three ring circus has gone on long enough.
Yeah, thanks Flutterby, I’d missed that point in the coverage. I’m not a parent so I’m not in a place to gauge how strange the parents behaviour is. But I will say that everyone does stupid things from time to time, 99.99% of the time nothing bad happens. Maybe they just decided, last minute, to go for a quick bite and just opted to do what they did without fully considering it.
Whilst I agree with ticker, I do think there’s going to be some speculation. At least our speculation here is punctuated with facts, informed opinion and isn’t really jumping to conclusions. As opposed to the coverage in the press which is going to take one side or another because that makes a far better story.
Further all of this is important because of the massive coverage of missing kids stories, and how they’re handled. The outcome of all of this will define how the next “kid disappears on holiday” story is covered. I worry that, next time, it’ll not get nearly as much coverage. And maybe that time will be the time it would have helped.
This story would have never happened if the parents just got the strollers out and took their damn kids to dinner with them. I don’t care that they wanted a quiet evening alone. The either get room service or take all the kids with them to dinner. If I was on vacation I wouldn’t be able to trust some babysitter in a foreign country to watch my kids.
What I want to know is, since the McCann’s parents are evidently back in England, who’s been watching the twins while they’re running around looking for Madeline? And meeting with the Pope? I can’t see taking a couple of 2-yr-olds to meet the Pope.
Can you imagine the threads – “Keep Your Brats Out of the Holy Water, Fercryinoutloud!”?
This was the point I was trying to make earlier. They had several options that evening. If the young’uns were sleeping, they could have ordered food brought in or something else. I would not have been comfortable leaving the kids unattended for any amount of time, expensive resort be damned.
From the traces supposedly found in the room. But it seems it was ‘genetic material’ and that could easily have come from the child’s toy the mother carries all the time.
The more I read about the case (in the quality Sunday’s rather than the tabloids) the more I’m coming around to the view that there was some horrible tragic accident (maybe with medication) and the parents have thrown up a smokescreen.
The genetic ‘evidence’ is held by UK experts not to be substantive enough to build a case on though and they point out it’s extremely odd police practice not to have impounded the car.
This is looking more like the Azaria Chamberlain case all the time, down to the bloodstain in the car and charging the mother with the murder. Two of the children were also sleeping with the child when she disappeared. The parents were wrongfully charged and imprisoned for murder, and later released and exonerated. The police really don’t want to go down that road…
