Kerry follows up sightings, the McCann's followed up sightings, it is all they can do to search and they don't know where the children are.
Agreed, Lace, they will be studying faces and mannerisms wherever they go.
It is arrant nonsense to suggest that the family members of a missing child are either equipped or should have to mount their own full scale searches while the policing authorities abrogate total responsibility.
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From the start,
the military were convinced that Katrice had simply wandered off. “They thought I hadn’t kept a proper eye on her.
I remember soon after she disappeared, the Royal Military Police came to our married quarters.
They were friendly but I’ve come to wish I’d said nothing. They asked me whether Katrice liked ducks and I quite innocently said, 'Yes, of course, don’t all children like ducks?’
“Looking back, that seems to have sealed my daughter’s fate.
The Royal Military Police and the local German police decided that she had walked out of the shop and wandered to the nearby river and fallen in and drowned.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9812934/I-just-want-to-know-what-happened-to-my-Katrice.htmlI recommend reading that link.
It appears we are now in a "ranking" system for missing children (British children who simply vanish on foreign soil) and how to search for them.
30 years ago the Lees were treated abominably by the authorities and who has heard of Katrice?
24 years ago the Needhams were treated abominably by the authorities but a bit better than the Lee family and communications being more advanced most people have heard of Ben.
8 years ago the McCanns were treated abominably by the authorities but if they were treated a bit better than the two previously mentioned families is a matter of opinion. They were made arguidos in their daughter's disappearance suffering opprobrium as a result which some still berate them with day and daily.
The fact that Madeleine and Ben are well publicised is as a result of the internet age ... the fact that Katrice's father is justified in feeling his child was neglected may also be that thirty years ago there was no internet.
As a result of technology and the use made of it in missing child cases ... there should never be another apparently anonymous Katrice Lee.
There ... that has dealt with the ranking order.
Think about it very carefully.
Circumstances stood in the way of the Lees physically looking for their child.
Circumstances of isolation meant the Needhams had to search the immediate area on their own.
Circumstances of being in the middle of a holiday resort populated with residential and holiday residences made the McCann situation different from the Needhams or the Lees.
Each family faced the same trauma ... each family faced a different situation.
There is something so terribly sad about trying to make capital one family over another by making comparison in situations which apart from the loss of a child ... there can be no comparison and it does disservice to people's suffering to use it as a debating point.