None of the tapas group had the profile of child abusers, whether sexual or otherwise. They were all happy to let their kids go off with nannies and child minders for most of the day - if they were abusing their children there is no way they would have ceded this much control over their children. Abusers, especially sexual abusers, would spend a lot more to with children when they had the opportunity, and would certainly not have allowed other people access to their children because they would not want to give up a position of control.
So child abuse on the part of any of the parents can be completely discounted.
This is utter nonsense. A friend of mine has a daughter who only had contact with her father for about 6 hours on one day a week. He used that time to sexually abuse her. It took her a year to be able to tell her Mother.
I'm not suggesting that that means any member of the Tapas 9 were child molesters, I'm just not capable of letting the above comments go by unchallenged.
Children are abused in all kinds on situations that we find difficult to understand, however, when you insist that "it's not possible" you do extreme damage to any child wishing to report the abuse.
Once again, this is a general statement and I am not suggesting
for one moment that any of the adults in Madeleine's group we paedophiles or that any of the children were subject to abuse.
I am saying that child abuse happens and that victims need to be listened to with an open mind.
