everything you say about the media is true chicken
if this had been a single parent left three kids alone and went out the media would have slaughtered her/him and taken other two kids into care
just hope it is a happy ending as i said before

my thoughts are also with madelines family and i hope for her safe return as well. Nice idea to make this thread sissoko so we can show our support.

i agree with you there chicken about the media as well and i would like to point out that can everyone still remember about a boy called ben who went missing in turkey and has never been found? He never ever had the same amount of press coverage or world wide appeals as this has received. So i suppose its better now that the world is more alert to what can happen and now especially the risk of leaving children alone for even the smallest amount of time unattended. So i think more parents are now aware of the risk so atleast others will think twice in the future about the decisions they make. Especially as the McCann family have to live with this, which must be undescribably hard for them.

But yes lets all hope its a happy ending

This post was last modified: 05-19-2007 11:13 AM by premier_ruler.

I remember about that little boy Ben
I was touring the Greek islands at that time and every town had a pic of him posted on buildings.
Interpol had been told he had been sited in Rhodes or Crete with Romanian gypsies.
sadly he was never found

i hope she is found safe an well cos it must be rippin her heart out bein away from her family.i totally disagree about too much press coverage cos if that was my child i`d want it in the public eye everyday 4 as long as it takes 2 bring her home.i think the press worldwide have been great regardin the case an i bet the family are overwhelmed wi the reaction from them,were all quick 2 slag the press cos most of the time they talk shit an milk a story but this is a story that needs carried 4 however long it takes 2 bring her home,

Interesting reading today on the internet that a Norweigan tourist spotted a little girl in pyjamas with a strange man at a petrol station. The tourist said the little girl looked sad and asked "when can I see mommy"

May you be safe and well and be in your parents arms very soon. God bless x.

This post was last modified: 05-19-2007 08:52 PM by scotstel.

Not too much media coverage in Canada about this but it breaks your heart to see a little girl like madeline have to go through with this and not aware on how much people are looking for her.

my prayers go out to her and her family that she will be in their arms soon enough

sadly tho, the tabloid press will not keep giving this story the same attention, because they will get bored off it eventually when they arent making money off it anymore, simple as that. until pete doherty has an overdose for example. i may be cynical, but i think im a realist,

yakuba, u telling me the bbc are wrong for not having hour-long news bulletins all about madeline? sadly the world needs to move on, and when iraqis are blowing themselves up i think more press coverage has to be given to other events in the world.

in my local town in northern ireland, there was a prayer service for madeline the other nite. all im asking is..where was the prayer service for the innocent iraqis killed? the killed troops sent to their death in iraq? the murdered israelis? the people who died in the shankill bomb in belfast? the people who died at the IRA brighton bomb? the people who shot in a bar as the watched the ireland vs italy in the 94 world cup? (just a few examples!) none of these stories have had such a media hype about them as much as the madeline story, so no-one really feels the need to show sympathy, therefore no prayer-services. this shows how our country and our world is controlled by the media. we are all brainwashed.
yes because she is a little girl there is more sympathy. but if the parents had looked after her, she wouldnt have been kidnapped.

dont get me wrong, im just saying that i wouldnt want this story plastered over the british press if it was my child. do you not agree that this over exposure has put her at even more risk. the News Of The World offering 1.5 million for information leading to madeline being found.this is gona create false accusations as people will be blinkered by the oppurtunity to get their hands on 1.5million, and wont care what innocent person gets caught up in this. and the news of the world wont care either as they get a bad-guy to put on their front cover, guilty or not.
the portuguese police know best how to deal with these situations as it is a regular occurance in their country. yet the brit press went on and did their own thing regardless. and then you have david beckham getting involved, he never misses an oppurtunity for some free publicity.

all im saying is that i think that the british press (apart from BBC) and in particularly ITV news, The Sun, News Of The World, have turned this story in a soap opera. they arent interested in her been found safe, that would mean the end of the story and the end of their big ratings/big newspaper sales. its in their best interests for madeline not to be found,which is a horrible thing to say.

im surprised so many many of you agreed with my comments. i was expecting a major backlash of abuse saying i dont care about the wee girl

I also hope that little Maddy is found safe and sound, but I also have to agree with yourikis, they family should be prosecuted for leaving all 3 children alone, while they went to eat. I don't care how hungry you are, the father should have gone to get food, while the mother stayed with the children, this could have been avoided. Both Maddie's parents have good jobs and are supposed to be well educated, this just shows that you can be the most educated person in the world, but still not have enough common sense when it comes to welfare of your child. I know that as a parent, I would be going nuts at the moment, but I would also be thinking that I should be arrested as well for leaving my children alone. There was a story around the same time that Maddy was abducted about a single parent who left her child home alone, she is now being prosecuted by Social Services in the UK, there is no difference.

My thoughts are with the McCann Family and i pray for this little girls safe return.