Originally Posted by c_r

I don't think that any decent person would not be wishing for the safe return of this child, although unfortunately that's looking more improbable the longer it goes on.

However why is it that mentioning the fact that the parents were disgracefully negligent to go out for a meal and leave such young children alone, or pointing out that the newspaper's sickening competition to show as much grief (sell as many papers) as possible is a bit hypocritical seeing as how they ignore much worse things (check out my link to the 25000 who die each day from hunger, unbelievably dismissed by Mick as "deaths due to accident or natural causes cannot be prevented") seems to cause some people to start foaming at the mouth with rage? These are relevant issues to the case and my mentioning them doesn't mean I care any less about the child's well-being than anyone else, it's just that I haven't been sucked in to the media frenzy.