Time To Stop Perhaps?

[cassa333]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43550383

It has been ten years and as far as I'm aware not a single bit of hard evidence has come to light.

Other investigations such as the bloke not in the landfill!! has been ended. Surely enough time has been spent on this one child and the McCann family should get on with their lives without this very big reminder.

They will never forget her but this constant attention just amplifies emotions that would have faded to 'normal' grief and loss.

[Voltage]

every time this topic turns up on here spat after spat follows ...jeez!

[sunny-dave]

I'm not sure this thread is adding much to the sum total of human happiness or indeed human knowledge ...

[youngmafbog]

What on earth are you talking about Spath?

I said it has had enough spent.

[naomi24]

Voltage, When emotions run high that's always going to be inevitable, whatever the subject.

[Voltage]

sorry Naomi disagree x soon as the name mccann arises all logic goes out the window!

[youngmafbog]

This topic has to distinct camps, those that believe enough has been spent and those that think there should be no limit.

As there is no real right or wrong opinion of course it will lead to heated debate.

[New Judge]

What I don't quite get with this case is if (a very big "if") they find the child alive and well, what are they proposing to do? She was almost four when she disappeared and would now be coming up to fifteen. She probably has very little memory of her life before she disappeared and if she is alive and well now she is probably in a settled environment. Is it suggested that she just be yanked away from that life, telling her she was abducted eleven years ago and must now go and live with her parents? Are their twins (now aged about thirteen) to simply assimilate their sister into their lives when effectively they have never known her? The harm that would cause the three children unimaginable.

The event was tragic and I have my own views on the culpability involved (which do not need debate in this question). I understand the need to track down the perpetrators of her presumed abduction. But I'm not sure anybody - including the McCanns - has given much thought to the implications (for Madeleine and the twins) of her being found alive and well. Terrible as the event was I think the McCann's ought to consider my point concentrate on the welfare of the two children they do have in their care.

[naomi24]

Voltage, //sorry Naomi disagree x soon as the name mccann arises all logic goes out the window! //

No need to apologise. I agree. Logic dictates that it’s time to stop spending money on the search but that said I try to put myself in their position and I know if that little girl had been mine I would never stop searching. For all the blame that’s been, quite rightly, thrown at the McCann’s I’d be willing to bet that no one is blaming them more than they’re blaming themselves. I can’t imagine the torment they’re suffering. Sadly, though, the blame game is futile because it isn’t going to get Madeleine back.

[naomi24]

*McCanns*

[cassa333]

Perhaps parents will never want to give up but there comes a point when someone has to make the decision.

Take any number of cases of children born with conditions that the medical establishment want to stop care and allow them to die. Those decisions are made.

The concept is the same.

[emmie]

i am not sure if it was my child i would ever stop looking, its heartbreaking.