Why is it so difficult to understand that physical searching is not the only way of searching for a missing child. In fact when there is a strong possibility that the child may have already been removed from the country from where they were abducted - physical searching is probably the least productive, and most wasteful use of time and money.
All the experts agree that keeping Madeleine's profile as high as possible, for as long as possible, in the public's mind was the best way to go to give her the best possible chance of being found - and that is exactly what the McCanns have done. Why do you think they were so wrong to follow that advice?
Quote from Emma Loach:-
We followed the McCanns as they spoke to experts in London, Brussels and Washington about the mechanics of child-rescue alerts. After each meeting in America, the couple were visibly buoyed. First there was Ed Smart, father of Elizabeth Smart. Six years ago Elizabeth – then 14 – had been snatched from her bed. Her family had then worked tirelessly to keep her photograph in the papers and her story in the news. And for them it paid off: nine months later a passer-by spotted her with her abductor in the street. She was reunited with her family – a living and breathing vindication of the tactic of keeping press attention high – for which the McCanns themselves have been criticised.
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First. If you find that your child is missing just little over half an hour after your husband alleges to have seen her in bed, you don't try to find her?!
I guess not. You'll rather phone your friends and family thousands of miles away to get the news on the papers.
Incredible prescient thinking.
Even though you allege to have left doors open you refuse to think that your child could have gone out and don't go looking for her. Of course not. Because you knew straight away that "they had taken her" - I wonder who were they!
Second. Physical search is the least productive way to look because you know you are not going to find her, because you know what you have done to her.
Third. The experts advise you not to reveal details about the child that may put her in danger of getting killed and disposed of. Gerry McCann admitted he knew it, yet decided to expose his child to danger because "it was a good MARKETING ploy" (Vanity Fair interview), not because it gave them a chance to recover her.
And last. We all know the polemic around Elizabeth Smart alleged kidnapping. Maybe when Mormons are not so strong in the legal system of Utah we learn a lot more about that case.
What I know is that even when it is a cat or a dog that gets lost, people tend to PHYSICALLY look for it, and not go to the phone or, as in the after weeks/months just take a private jet to get farther away from where there were allegations that the child had been seen.
