What absolute rubbish is being talked here. They were in the garden to the apartments with virtually full view of 5A only 50 metres away. They were having their meal and had left the front door locked. They believed the window was locked as well, because they hadn't opened it all the time they were there.
OK 50 metres is a fairly long garden, but ours was that long. We had a busy city type dual carriageway at the front and we instantly heard our children if they called, even if we had our backs to them and were talking over the fence.
Like the Mccanns, we feared no one coming in, never gave it a thoought; it just didn't happen. We even left our side gate unlocked right by the open back door. Everybody in our road did the same. We all had long gardens and on summer evenings chatted over the fences. It goes on everywhere and in the sixties and seventies was completely normal. Everything changed after Madeleine went missing. Bet they all are OTT now.
Neglect? I wonder how many of you have been camping, or caravanning, and gone to join other campers nearby for a chat, a barbie or a sing song? Everybody does it, unless they are anti social. Nobody would expect someome to come in and steal their child.
In retrospect it would have been better to have a child alarm, BUT if the abduction was as i suspect, almost silent and via the front door, then nobody would have heard anything - cos with a monitor there nobody would have opened those noisy shutters. So the monitor would not have made any difference.
3 to 4 unfinished bottles of wine between 9 and with a full meal is not excessive; it is normal. It is time you guys got things in perspective. Give it a rest ... and start thinking ... instead of digging your knives in and twisting. As a sucessful psychologist
, you must know all about sadism, Luz.
Btw, did you board in the UK, Luz?
