When Madeleine is Found.

[jassi]

In all probability she is dead, alas.

Well yes, but you're not allowed these negative thoughts. She has to be living with a loving family   

[The General]

Well yes, but you're not allowed these negative thoughts. She has to be living with a loving family   

Yes, 'hope' is required.
But no, I believe she will never be found and I hold no hope.

[kizzy]

I haven't seen anyone say 'all will be well' when she returns to her loving family.   Of course there would be huge Psychological  problems,  if she had been taken into a family,  she would have grown to love her abdcutors.  The people who abducted her would definitely be imprisoned for their crime,  so she will lose that 'family'  and feel resentful towards the McCann's for that.   However,  being in contact with her biological family and learning that she had been taken from them,  she may bend towards having a relationship with them.   As for the forgiving them part of your post,  Madeleine is old enough to know that she shouldn't have been taken by someone, even if her parents had left her alone.  That is the main thing,  she was taken by someone, she will know that is wrong and maybe she wouldn't be able to forgive her abductors for taking her away from her real family.

IYO, IF your scenario of events were true  - they would  have taken one 0f the twiins

Whats happened to the pedio gang in your logic - the one the mcs were convinced took maddie.

Don't they get hope when a kidnapped person is found - kept in a cellar

[Brietta]

Well yes, but you're not allowed these negative thoughts. She has to be living with a loving family   

In my opinion that is the best outcome to be hoped for her in the intervening period since her disappearance ... a 'normal' family life as far as she has been concerned.

[Brietta]

IYO, IF your scenario of events were true  - they would  have taken one 0f the twiins

Whats happened to the pedio gang in your logic - the one the mcs were convinced took maddie.

Don't they get hope when a kidnapped person is found - kept in a cellar

In my opinion it is quite insane for anyone to invade a home to steal a child in any case and who knows what goes through the mind of such a person.

Why would they take an eighteen month old child instead of a three year old?  Maybe that is one of the questions that can be asked of one of the only individual likely to know the answer when Madeleine is found.

[Brietta]

IYO, IF your scenario of events were true  - they would  have taken one 0f the twiins

Whats happened to the pedio gang in your logic - the one the mcs were convinced took maddie.

Don't they get hope when a kidnapped person is found - kept in a cellar

Don't you think it is good for the individuals liberated from a cellar or wherever they have been held in bondage?

[kizzy]

In my opinion it is quite insane for anyone to invade a home to steal a child in any case and who knows what goes through the mind of such a person.

Why would they take an eighteen month old child instead of a three year old?  Maybe that is one of the questions that can be asked of one of the only individual likely to know the answer when Madeleine is found.

Quite if that indeed happened - but we don't know that happened do we.

My reply was to L happy ever after post living with the ideal family ect ect.

If that was the case that maddie was stolen to order for some childless couple - it would have been one of the twins imo

[Brietta]

Quite if that indeed happened - but we don't know that happened do we.

My reply was to L happy ever after post living with the ideal family ect ect.

If that was the case that maddie was stolen to order for some childless couple - it would have been one of the twins imo

Give reasons for why you think that, please.

[kizzy]

Don't you think it is good for the individuals liberated from a cellar or wherever they have been held in bondage?

did I say it wasn't - my point was that mccs imo think that is where Maddie is or has been kept.

[kizzy]

Give reasons for why you think that, please.

I don't believe Maddie was abducted.

[The General]

Don't you think it is good for the individuals liberated from a cellar or wherever they have been held in bondage?

If they're alive, otherwise they wouldn't know.
But yes, in the main a captive being released would be seen an improvement to their previous predicament.

[jassi]

If they're alive, otherwise they wouldn't know.
But yes, in the main a captive being released would be seen an improvement to their previous predicament.

Would it?

If a child had been incarcerated in a cellar for more than a decade, would they feel confident enough to leave that environment, it having been all they knew?

[Lace]

IYO, IF your scenario of events were true  - they would  have taken one 0f the twiins

Whats happened to the pedio gang in your logic - the one the mcs were convinced took maddie.

Don't they get hope when a kidnapped person is found - kept in a cellar

I believe Madeleine had been watched,  she was the one they wanted,  not a baby still in nappies that would scream the place down,  a child old enough to be told lies so that they could take her away.

Who said the McCann's were convinced a paedo gang took Madeleine?   It was something that they thought could have happened and still do probably.  Who knows who took her.

I would think when a child is found or escaped it would bring some hope to the McCann's.   Parents of a missing child always hold out hope that is all they can do.

[Brietta]

Would it?

If a child had been incarcerated in a cellar for more than a decade, would they feel confident enough to leave that environment, it having been all they knew?

I think the Fritzl children who were born in a cellar would give the lie to that.

[jassi]

I think the Fritzl children who were born in a cellar would give the lie to that.

You reckon 1 swallow makes a summer?