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I believe Mrs McCann in particular has media friends and this may well explain the way in which they've dealt with the press and the manner in which they've managed to keep the story rolling. The press have a constant appetite for news which needs to be fed or they very rapidly lose interest. To that extent to McCann's are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Although I think they were negligent in leaving 3 such young children alone I can't see any action being taken against them unless new information comes to light about this whole affair. Whether the child is found alive or not, I think they will be deemed by the relevant authorities to have suffered enough.

Many people have understandably stated their empathy for the McCanns yet I have far more sympathy for their children who were left alone for no good reason. Are they bad parents or was it just an error of judgement? I don't know, but I think many people just can't understand how 2 such well educated professional people could be so apparently blase about leaving such young children all alone, especially when they had the resources available to make doing that totally unnecessary.