Sadly I have become immune now to the horror of parents killing their children, it happens far too often.
Children being killed for all kind of reasons, even to get a bigger house........
A lot of mums sadly killing their children because of post natal depression one of the worse cases I think was in Australia.
Mums killing their children in cold blood, so they didnt have to share them with their new partners....
Its ALL the time now.....
I feel awful even saying it but I have turned cynical about every case.
I would NEVER have questioned the fact years ago, no way. I would have assumed the child was taken away and just would not believe a parent could harm the child or dispose of the body...but sadly over the years now every time I IMMEDIATELY jump to the parents FIRST. How sad am I? Or how sad is SOCIETY.....?
The statistics are STACKED against the parents or friends. Its horrible isnt it....but it seems to be getting worse.
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/inform/research/statistics/child_homicide_statistics_wda48747.html
When a childs life is taken by a parent say the mother, how do we know that the husband would not want to protect their partner and do anything possible to make sure that their loved one is protected, even doing something so UNSPEAKABLE, as removing their beloved child and disposing of the body....
People do these things it HAPPENS.
ITS not necessarily what I believe in to be honest, I am still not sure in my mind the child was harmed by her parents not at all, but sadly I think ANYONE is capable of self preservation its an instinc inherrant in all human beings.
I dont for one minute think the parents would have covered up an accidental death no way, children have accidents ALL THE TIME, and sadly they die because of them.
No I dont see that the parents would do that no way...
To be honest I would rather a child died of an accident then have been taken by a pedophile now that thought doesnt bear thinking about.
Non of the scenarios bode well for the child do they.
Its just so sad for Maddy no matter what we think. 
Columbo, I readily understand that sadly there are many cases of parents killing and abusing their own children.
In fact I was reading just the other day a series of legal documents from the eighteenth century relating to a small village in Scandinavia where my ancestors are from, which contained court records of punishable offences committed in that area. The high number, statistically, of dreadful things that happened to children at the hands of their relatives was shocking. The instance of post natal depression was apparently extremely high, as maternal infanticide was a regular occurrence. Gladly society is beginning to understand this condition better. Other crimes involving children and young people were also prevalent but I won't go into them now as things could get a bit gory.
My point was that in the Madeleine case there is still no evidence for the McCanns having done anything sinister such as harming their child or concealing her body; in fact the 'evidence' we do have - admittedly it is scant - points to it being exceptionally difficult if not impossible for them to have done something of the kind. The question is why in the absence of evidence, these accusations are made.
People will quote statistics but as we have discussed again and again, we do not convict by statistics. If that were so, we wouldn't need a police force or a legal system.
Statistics do indeed point to parental culpability, and in the light of that, the McCanns ought to have been investigated more fully at the START of the investigation in Portugal.
Instead, we have a case where attention was turned to the McCanns after failure to find explanations in other areas, failure due in part to flawed and incompetent investigating (not looking at the CCTV cameras; not sealing off the crime scene; not sealing off the Spanish border; contamination in forensic procedures, etc etc.).
The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
