"I'm at a loss to understand why you so resolutely appear to want to ignore those facts and want to continue to paint them as totally unrepentent and failing to admit any responsibility or fault. " Because they have not acknowledged that leaving three under fours alone in the first place was wrong - indeed Kate said recently "we did nothing wrong". As John has said, "it would be nice to hear them state in simple language once in a while that they were at fault. Instead, all we get are excuses and platitudes to the effect that they did nothing wrong."
Re the baby listening service - I have already made it clear that I do not know the present attitude of Social Services towards this, so there is no point in constantly addressing the same question to me. As I and others have also already said, there is a difference from the situation the McCanns were in, in that hotels, or those I have recently stayed in, are usually self-contained buildings with a reception etc, not independent flats open to the street.
As to how I spend my time, I will determine that for myself, and trying to avoid the abuse, including neglect of children comes first for me - children left alone in unprotected situations, including hotel rooms if that is the case, comes under all that. Nor do I "vilify" the McCanns - if anything I vilify their actions and indeed the actions of any parents which puts their children at risk.
IMO their claim that THEY did nothing wrong was said in the context of the abductor being the one who is the criminal - and not them.
They made a human error - it was
the abductor who committed an unspeakable crime. IMO To hear some people talk - you would think it was the other way round.
For the third (and last) time - I quote below from Kate's book. If you really see that as proof of their refusal to acknowledge their guilt and that they considered themselves to be faultless - then please point out where they say that. IMO They are clearly admitting what happened was because of fault on their part, and that they were not there for their daughter when they should have been, and the guilt they now feel because of
their actions will never leave them. It is also recorded elsewhere that they admitted 'We've let her down'.
To claim they have never taken any responsiblity for their part in this tragedy is grossly unfair IMO - and clearly untrue.
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.......however unwittingly
we'd given this predator an opportunity..
We had not been there for Madeleine. And, as I've said before and will say again,
our guilt over that is a heavv cross we will bear for the rest of our lives.
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