Podcasts by Mark Saunokonoko of 9News.

[The General]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzpAUzE2Zc8&list=RDUbt68d7FXLs&start_radio=1

[Erngath]

I have no idea. It would stop the vilification of her for doing....eventually...the right thing.

The only villification taking place is the one pertaining to either one or two men whose names have been linked to the sexual abuse of their daughters for almost twelve years on the internet .
 

[Venturi Swirl]

I mean, it's pretty apparent.
In the midst of a full scale, world wide hunt for a missing child, she realises, joining the dots, albeit slowly......the penny drops......'shit a brick, love, that's that weirdo from Majorca that time, the one with the finger and the nipple'.

Yes I get that, but in order for his being the last person to see Madeleine alive apart from her parents to be significant (as far as she is concerned) then obviously it would be necessary for the parents to also somehow involved.

[Wonderfulspam]

You think Davel approves of filming paedos having sex with children?

No, he thinks that viewing child porn shouldn't necessarily attract a custodial prison sentence.

He said so only yesterday as I recall.

[Erngath]

Plenty of victims and witnesses don't report at the time for many reasons.

No, she was a professional woman and used to dealing with the many difficult decisions that her professional life could incur.
She wasn't a victim or a witness to any abuse.
I do feel she didn't suspect that two toddlers were being sexually abused by one or two fathers or surely she would not have waited for a year and a half before reporting it.

[faithlilly]

I'm sure she made her statement in good faith but I do think that if she had any real concern that one if not two toddlers were being sexually abused by one or two fathers then she would have acted on her concern a year and a half before.
Really wouldn't most folk do that if they had deep concerns?

Are you saying she was making it up ? That she hadn’t experienced what she said ? Why would she do that ?

[The General]

Yes I get that, but in order for his being the last person to see Madeleine alive apart from her parents to be significant (as far as she is concerned) then obviously it would be necessary for the parents to also somehow involved.

Maybe....maaayyybbbeeee.....she thought DP was involved! [cue dramatic music]

[Erngath]

Are you saying she was making it up ? That she hadn’t experienced what she said ? Why would she do that ?

You are a past master at managing to twist what a poster is actually saying.
Ten out of ten for doing so again!

[The General]

No, she was a professional woman and used to dealing with the many difficult decisions that her professional life could incur.
She wasn't a victim or a witness to any abuse.
I do feel she didn't suspect that two toddlers were being sexually abused by one or two fathers or surely she would not have waited for a year and a half before reporting it.

Well clearly, as we have been trying to explain all evening Ern, it took a 2nd, much more sinister event for the episode to take on a new meaning. Initially he's a weirdo with undesirable proclivities and potential  - now he's in the frame!

[The General]

You are a past master at managing to twist what a poster is actually saying.
Ten out of ten for doing so again!

It's a valid point. With your take on it, she's either lying, or she has another reason for the delay. I think the reason is she put the two together and thought DP was someone the police should talk to. I don't think she though the McCann's were implicated by it necessarily.

[faithlilly]

You are a past master at managing to twist what a poster is actually saying.
Ten out of ten for doing so again!

So what are you saying ?

[Erngath]

So what are you saying ?

Read back!

[Venturi Swirl]

No, he thinks that viewing child porn shouldn't necessarily attract a custodial prison sentence.

He said so only yesterday as I recall.

A view which is shared by the judicial system in this country, have you not noticed?  Instread of pratting about here why not do something useful and start a nationwide campaign to get life sentences for anyone dowloading or viewing child porn?  You obviously feel very strongly about it.

[Erngath]

Well clearly, as we have been trying to explain all evening Ern, it took a 2nd, much more sinister event for the episode to take on a new meaning. Initially he's a weirdo with undesirable proclivities and potential  - now he's in the frame!

Fair enough.
If I had witnessed an incident where I believed one or two toddlers were being sexually abused by one or two fathers I wouldn't have waited more than a week to give my concerns to anyone whom I believed would take that concern further.

[Venturi Swirl]

Maybe....maaayyybbbeeee.....she thought DP was involved! [cue dramatic music]

Obviously.  Also obviously she didn’t thonk Kate or Gerry were.