Madeleine's parents -
both 46-year-old doctors - had been dining in a tapas restaurant a few hundred yards from the apartment and had been checking on
the little girl and her younger brother and sister, two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie, every half hour.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla...re/6626251.stm
Whether the parents were next door, 40 or 400 yards away, the kiddies should not have been left alone. I can imagine the havoc a certain four year old (my nephew) left alone for just five minutes could create never mind half an hour. I hope the little one turns up safe and sound but things like this never usually have a happy ending
