Scenario:
Your child dies whilst you're on holiday and (for reasons best known to yourself) you claim he or she must have been abducted.
As a result, the case attracts the attention of the world's media but more importantly the police forces of both the country in which you were holidaying and from your own country.
The police are suspicious, the media which was supportive in the early days has turned on you, printing all sorts of uncomfortable headlines heavily hinting that you have done something untoward with your child.
Eventually you are made chief suspect in your child's disappearance and every aspect of your holiday, your relationship with your child and family and friends, your comings and goings etc is put under the microscope. The police bust their guts trying to find some evidence that you hid your child's body.
Meanwhile most people in your home country and in the country in which you holidayed are convinced you're guilty of something.
Eventually, after months of investigation and trying to build a case against you, the police concede they lack any evidence against you, and you are no longer suspects. The case is shelved indefinitely. You sue the media for libel and settle out of court - a nice big juicy payment for your bank account.
Now, at this point you'd be forgiven for going to ground, issuing one final statement to the media along the lines of "we have come to terms with the fact that our daughter is gone, and just want to be left alone to grieve", then slink away into obscurity to spend all that lovely lolly you screwed out of the public and the papers.
But no. This is not what you do.
Instead you spend a small fortune on various private investigators, you write a book which gets serialised in the country's biggest circulation newspaper, you appear on TV chat shows, all allegedly to keep your child's profile high in the public consciousness even though you know what happened.
Then to cap it all, three whole years after the case was shelved you go to the highest man in your land, the prime minister, by sending him a letter demanding:
"a joint INDEPENDENT, TRANSPARENT and COMPREHENSIVE review of ALL information held in relation to our child's disappearance".
You are granted your wish and the country's most esteemed police force is drafted in to sift through all the evidence all over again, at great cost to the public purse.
You make yourself available for more TV appearances, BBC Crimewatch even, appealing for people to come forward who may have actually seen something.
The question I have to ask you is:
ARE YOU F@@KING MAD????
If not, what is your motivation for doing all of this?
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Your child dies whilst you're on holiday and (for reasons best known to yourself) you claim he or she must have been abducted.....let's look at reasons since this is only a scenario:
1. you lose your temper- smack the child harder than you thought and he/she falls/ dies- you are worried that a post motrem reveals the child has been abused in some other way (more bruising etc)you are in a foreign country and are afraid you will be arrested and thrown in jail.
2. you leave instructions to your child that if they wake up to come and get you a door will be left unlocked- you are worried that he/she did that and had an accident causing his/ her death- you are in a foreign country and are afraid you will be arrested and thrown in jail.
3 the child wakes up and goes to mums room find sweets ( adult medicine/or calpol) and dies. -
you are in a foreign country and are afraid you will be arrested and thrown in jail.
You stage an abduction to deflect attention and use child friendly terms to re assure everyone that it was not your fault by saying, some thing similar to: it was like sitting in the garden- it's a cultural thing every one in the UK does it- we could see the apartment from where we were sitting- we were constantly checking the children (not mentioning just listening at the door), ( also, not mentioning that this was your preferred choice of child care you chose before you even left the UK) claiming that it felt safe. You call the media to get your story in first and like most professionals who are accused of anything, they stay very quiet about the details of what happened
( because they can catch you out) and only answer questions with deflection- or when suspected don't answer at all. When this ploy works you roll with it. You know the two police forces have no evidence, you know they will never find a body- job done. keep up the pretense until you are found out, you know you never will be found out so you are home laughing. Play the victim, bad mouth your accusers and those who suspect you.
"ARE YOU F@@KING MAD????
NO JUSTF@@@@KING CLEVER. THREW THEM OFF THE SCENT AND GOT FREEDOM AND A REALLY NICE LIFE THANKS
If not, what is your motivation for doing all of this?
Like seriously? our reputation,our freedom, loosing our other children, careers, house, EVERYTHING! did I miss anything re the motivation?
oh yes regarding wanting ALL the information on them regarding this matter- they didn't get it it all- did they? and why did they need it? to check if they missed anything perhaps.
