If you believe our well established legal system is protecting the victims of paedophiles then all I can do is stress that I believe, from tragic personal involvement, that you are very sadly mistaken.
Also I shouldn't respond to your ad hominem rhetoric but the sentence stating "the mother's self proclaimed enjoyment of socialising with Clement Freud" contains no misogyny whatsoever. It's a factual statement based on Kate McCann's book. For the record, in my opinion, Gerry McCann appears controlling in terms of the couple's public persona and how that is managed. However it was Kate who wrote about enjoying the company of the alleged paedophile Clement Freud.
In my opinion Gerry took on the media as he was the stronger of the two, Kate said that Gerry was used to giving lectures he would do in his profession. To say he was 'controlling' is rather over the top when Kate preferred Gerry to speak out for them. Kate did get better at speaking as time went by.
So what if Kate did write about enjoying the company of Clement Freud? I believe they took other family members with them on the first visit. I think she felt a bit flattered as he was a well known person. Why shouldn't they have had a short break from the horrors of their daughters disappearance? A time to relax and just enjoy a meal, they would soon slam back to reality as soon as it was over. The McCann's wouldn't have known about his secrets, they just knew him as a well known person. Paedophile's are in all walks of life, who knows you may have even encountered one yourself without knowing it.
If I found my child missing from her bed with the window open when it had never been opened all the time they had been in the apartment, then she was not found in the apartment or anywhere around it, then I would think 'abduction' and yes my first thought would be Paedophile as they are the people who usually abduct a child. So what's all this Kate mentions Paedophile's of course she did, it would be every mothers worse scenario.
