To begin with it was established by the PJ authorities that the McCanns childcare arrangements did not meet the criterion necessary to accuse them of abandonment.
Madeleine was not the first child to go missing at that complex - the fact that they had a Missing Child procedure proves that. None of the parents of those missing children have ever been charged with anything.
It has been an accepted custom and practice for decades that people on holiday do make arrangements to leave their children alone while they go to dinner - or a bar or whatever. No-one has ever been prosecuted for doing that.
What about parents who use baby alarms when they go out and do not check on their children at all? Surely if anyone fits the criterion for abandonment - they come very close. None of them have been prosecuted.
MW along with other tour operators, hoteliers etc offered the Listening Service to their clients as an extra service for them to take up if required. Surely this must mean they are guilty of inciting the abandonment of children at those venues? The fact that it was not offered at PdL is irrelevant to the principle.
The whole idea of the McCanns being charged with abandonment in these holiday circumstances is preposterous.
IMO