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Old 10-08-2007, 15:41   #713
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Re: Toddler 'abducted' during holiday

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Originally Posted by RizzyKing View Post
Chris not being funny mate but the fact they buggered off and left their kids alone doesn't shout to me the personification of parenthood. I expect the press to report what is happening with the kiddie not that the parents were jetting off here and there looking for her. most parents that have a child abducted make an appeal and then leave it to the proper authoritie's to liase with the press the mc'canns have been more then happy to go in front of the camera's on many occasion's when they didn't need too. Salif yes i do think there is a case to answer but i doubt very much anything will happen about it sadly.
I agreee, it was a very stupid thing to do, but I suspect it's not so uncommon as we might like to think - especially amongst intelligent parents who think they have weighed up, and are on top of, the risks, as the McCanns apparently thought at the time.

I think some amount of their Press 'courting' can probably be attributed to feelings of guilt, and trying to make up for what in hindsight was obviously a critical error of judgement.

But I don't think an error of judgement, even if repeated, makes you a 'bad' parent, requiring the serious attention of Social Services. There are plenty more deserving cases in this country where councils should be directing their limited budgets.
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