Gerry McCann says that thousands did or would have done the same as them.

[Eleanor]

Dear Kate and Gerry,

I am so very sorry to hear of what happened to Madeleine and to you.  I did the same thing myself and understand exactly why you thought it was safe.

Maureen Lang.

PS.  You can publish this if you wish because I really don't care who knows who I am.

[G-Unit]

All circumstances are different in some way.  You make risk assessments according to where you are, and a basic knowledge of your own children.  Very few people just walk out of the door and think everything will be alright.

However, an abductor coming along and stealing a child wasn't a risk assessment that anyone would have made prior to 2007.

Anyone seeing that particular apartment as a safe place to leave small children alone needs to look again imo. Let's not bring an alleged abduction into it, we're discussing the decision to leave small children in that apartment.

[Eleanor]

Anyone seeing that particular apartment as a safe place to leave small children alone needs to look again imo. Let's not bring an alleged abduction into it, we're discussing the decision to leave small children in that apartment.

No we aren't. 

[slartibartfast]

Only in your opinion.  You pay no attention to circumstances.

I never saw my children as a cross to bear, unlike some of you seem to do.   And I wouldn't mind betting that some of yours are sick to death of hearing about how much you sacrificed for them

No it's a fact, they are not a cross to bear and we are still very close with them and the grandchildren. Any parent who has left a child has done a basic risk vs reward calculation and decided the reward outweighs the risk.

[Eleanor]

No it's a fact, they are not a cross to bear and we are still very close with them and the grandchildren. Any parent who has left a child has done a basic risk vs reward calculation and decided the reward outweighs the risk.

My children and grandchildren think I am wonderful and a really brave spirit.  And  I've got letters to prove it.

[Brietta]

Posted by ALGARVERESIDENT on August 17, 2007
Thousands of letters for support

KATE AND Gerry McCann received seven thousand emails and countless letters of support last weekend, which marked 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. The couple have now thanked “the thousands of people who have written messages of support” to them.Some of the comments in the letters the couple received included: “We are in solidarity with you and believe in Madeleine’s return. I hope she returns alive as soon as possible”, from an identified Portuguese retired teacher; and “I am praying that God will bring your agony to an end very soon and Madeleine will be found” from a housewife in Belfast.
http://portugalresident.com/thousands-of-letters-for-support?qt-why_pick_us=0

[stephen25000]

Obviously Portugal doesn't agree with you.

Read what the Portuguese ex-Minister said about abandonment .

[Eleanor]

Posted by ALGARVERESIDENT on August 17, 2007
Thousands of letters for support

KATE AND Gerry McCann received seven thousand emails and countless letters of support last weekend, which marked 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. The couple have now thanked “the thousands of people who have written messages of support” to them.Some of the comments in the letters the couple received included: “We are in solidarity with you and believe in Madeleine’s return. I hope she returns alive as soon as possible”, from an identified Portuguese retired teacher; and “I am praying that God will bring your agony to an end very soon and Madeleine will be found” from a housewife in Belfast.
http://portugalresident.com/thousands-of-letters-for-support?qt-why_pick_us=0

Thank you, Brietta.

[Eleanor]

Read what the Portuguese ex-Minister said about abandonment .

Were they Charged?

[stephen25000]

Posted by ALGARVERESIDENT on August 17, 2007
Thousands of letters for support

KATE AND Gerry McCann received seven thousand emails and countless letters of support last weekend, which marked 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. The couple have now thanked “the thousands of people who have written messages of support” to them.Some of the comments in the letters the couple received included: “We are in solidarity with you and believe in Madeleine’s return. I hope she returns alive as soon as possible”, from an identified Portuguese retired teacher; and “I am praying that God will bring your agony to an end very soon and Madeleine will be found” from a housewife in Belfast.
http://portugalresident.com/thousands-of-letters-for-support?qt-why_pick_us=0

Support is one thing.

Excusing neglect and/or the Mccanns behaviour is another.

[stephen25000]

Anyone who has left a child alone and gone out has put their own needs above the needs of their child.

Precisely Slarti.

[stephen25000]

Were they Charged?

They should have been as would citizens of Portugal having done the same.

[Eleanor]

They should have been as would citizens of Portugal having done the same.

But they weren't, because there was No Intent.  This is a fact.  And all the wishful thinking in the world won't change it.

[ferryman]

Read what the Portuguese ex-Minister said about abandonment .

Is that why he's an ex-minister?

[stephen25000]

But they weren't, because there was No Intent.  This is a fact.  And all the wishful thinking in the world won't change it.

Of course there was intent.

It was repeated behaviour , and we know what the consequences were.