Crimewatch - Madeleine McCann

[DodgyAgent]

They've paid the ultimate price for their culpability.

Presumably then women who get raped wearing flimsy clothing are asking for it?

[d000hg]

Presumably then women who get raped wearing flimsy clothing are asking for it?

Just women in general, their fault for being on their own.

[russell]

WDAS

Everyone alive has had near misses, "if only" moments, etc - whether driving, on holiday or parenting. You would have hit the other car if they hadn't noticed, your child falls down and happens to smack their head on the lawn rather than a rock, etc.

Yeah that's are the same as leaving your child alone for hours in a foreign country whilst you are on the razz a distance away.

[Churchill]

Presumably then women who get raped wearing flimsy clothing are asking for it?

What the fck has that got to do with leaving your young children alone?

[MaryPoppins]

Hhmm. But those things, those near misses, are a bit different.

Taking the decision to leave the building my child was sleeping in, to go and have dinner a few hundred meters away would not be an accident.

My opinion has always been that making this decision is different to sitting downstairs while my child is asleep upstairs, but by the same token they nor their daughter deserve what happened.

[russell]

Presumably then women who get raped wearing flimsy clothing are asking for it?

A better analogy would be leaving your doors and windows open in a high crime area with all your cash on the kitchen table and then complaining about it being stolen.

[SueEllen]

I agree, however they haven't AFAIK acknowledged they made this mistake. I have to say I would never leave my children alone even for 5 mins, especially not to wine and dine.

Unfortunately little kids who can walk can go for a wander when you are in a shop with them and on a day out with them let alone when you are in a different room or when you are asleep.

You are only saved by nice people - adults and older children - who are around who spot a little kid on their wander who can either direct them back or keep them from going further.

[VectraMan]

What was the point of this programme? The abductor (assuming there was one) is probably Portuguese, or not British anyway, so what do they think they'll gain covering it on Crimewatch in the UK? Presumably the police had to field thousands of calls from people thinking one or other of the hilariously different e-fits of the same bloke looked like their neighbour, even though said neighbour had never been to Portugal.

[d000hg]

Hhmm. But those things, those near misses, are a bit different.

Taking the decision to leave the building my child was sleeping in, to go and have dinner a few hundred meters away would not be an accident.

It's a daft and irresponsible thing to do, but for the reason the kid might turn the gas on or hurt themself, not because they might be kidnapped.

99 times out of a hundred you can leave a kid alone and the worst that happens the other time is they get a bruise or two, which is not really a problem in the grand scheme of things.

Living your life based around there being kidnappers waiting to steal your children is silly.

[Mich the Tester]

What was the point of this programme? The abductor (assuming there was one) is probably Portuguese, or not British anyway, so what do they think they'll gain covering it on Crimewatch in the UK? Presumably the police had to field thousands of calls from people thinking one or other of the hilariously different e-fits of the same bloke looked like their neighbour, even though said neighbour had never been to Portugal.

They showed the same details on the Dutch 'Opsporing Verzocht', because there might have been Dutch holidaymakers present who'd seen something the police need to know; I suppose it's probably been shown in Portugal too.