Madeline Mccann

[Barsel]

I know this has probably been discussed before, but I really thought this would have ended by now. Your thoughts please?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41197076

[Cloverjo]

I've also mentioned this in a previous similar thread: on holiday as a child I remember parents often leaving their children in their chalets with only a person walking around the site with an ear to doors listening for crying kids.
My parents left us alone for evenings for a short time. They were not neglectful.

[Sqad]

Eccles.....interesting post.
Which poster happens to be "childless?"

[tamborine]

Public funding is Brit Citzrns right. We are not destitute in UK .

[murraymints]

we do not have a bottomless pot to fund every missing child search and there are thousands !

[ummmm]

They've funded a lot themselves.

[Kathyan]

They also paid their mortgage off out of the fund!

[ummmm]

So what? They were campaigning to find their daughter, not working.

[jackthehat]

///They also paid their mortgage off out of the fund! ///
Well!!!!
They should just have defaulted on the mortgage payments, whilst they weren't working, lost the house and made themselves and the twins homeless.
I'm sure (judgemental) people would have thought that was just desserts.
They used the monies on a couple of occasions.....

[hc4361]

No, they didn't, Kathyan. They used the fund to pay for two months mortgage payments when both were on unpaid leave.

[Kathyan]

From public donations? Nice!

[ummmm]

Wow....I'm speechless.

[jackthehat]

Have you asked them to refund your donation, Kathyan?

[tamborine]

paying their mortgage saves them claiming DHSS. How heartless some on here are. Do you own deeds of your house kathysn?

[Kathyan]

I don't see what my personal circumstances have to do with this.

[murraymints]

this thread has gone awry... ever decreasing circles.. nothing will change what happened .. time to draw a line here...

[tamborine]

Its the working & middle class that pay tax to keep unemployed et al

[jackthehat]

That's what threads like this are for Kathyan.....to pick over the bones and make judgements on relationships and lifestyles about which we have no real knowledge.....

[tamborine]

Kath you denigrate McCanns. If you owned your deeds you have said so!

[ummmm]

Hey...we've been told to draw a line!!

[EcclesCake]

Sqad, I won't out the individual but they know who they are.

I don't have children myself and consequently won't pass an opinion, I did share the first hand experience of someone who knows the resort well and is someone whose judgement and opinion I respect.