We don't but it just seems incredibly stupid and needlessly risky to leave your kids alone in a foreign country.Neither of us know the conversations that happened following the child saying this.
Kids cry and say things like that all the time.
All I’m saying is it’s difficult to understand things from the McCanns point of view in the build up.
YepStill?
It’s a poor argument because how ever you try to make light of them leaving their kids doesn’t hide the fact it was an insufficient safeguard as she went missing.I’m saying it’s not specific and I’m not saying sleeping in the room next door is the same at all.
My point is stating “leaving them alone” doesn’t necessarily help as a statement by itself. Every kid is alone at times we need to evaluate to what extent.
Saying “they fucked off” doesn’t help either.
They could see half the apartment from their dining table, you could throw a stone to it.
She’s likely dead because a gang coordinated an abduction by likely studying their movements for almost a week.
It’s a tragic incident and I feel the people that constantly berate grieving parents need to back off.
A nearly 12 stretch and counting?
We don't but it just seems incredibly stupid and needlessly risky to leave your kids alone in a foreign country.
I don't have kids but I just couldn't envision myself doing this, especially when there was a night crèche on the complex
It’s a poor argument because how ever you try to make light of them leaving their kids doesn’t hide the fact it was an insufficient safeguard as she went missing.
They weren’t “close”. They could barely see the apartment from the restaurant as there were trees in the way and the patio door that was unlocked was on the side they couldn’t see anyway.I genuinely used to be firmly in the neglect camp, thought it was terrible they were eating away but then looking into it, I realised how close they were. and that they checked regularly.
The way the resort was too, it was very family oriented and seemed very enclosed.
You could see the apartment from the dinner table and without us fully understanding the atmosphere in the resort at the time, I don’t think we should be quick to judge.
They weren’t “close”. They could barely see the apartment from the restaurant as there were trees in the way and the patio door that was unlocked was on the side they couldn’t see anyway.
Clearly not close enoughThey were close but it depends what your definition of close is. There was a wall and a swimming pool in between their table and the apartment - you could throw a stone from their table and hit the apartment door.
Hindsight is a wonderful/terrible thing, I reckon they probably felt incredibly safe in that resort.
Clearly not close enough
They were close but it depends what your definition of close is. There was a wall and a swimming pool in between their table and the apartment - you could throw a stone from their table and hit the apartment door.
Hindsight is a wonderful/terrible thing, I reckon they probably felt incredibly safe in that resort.
200m is eight normal (or 4 Olympic) swimming pools end on end- thats one hell of a throw.
However close the restaurant was is irrelevant , how on earth could you sit there enjoying a meal & a drink while chit chatting with your friends while your 3 year old may wake up in a dark apartment crying for her mum or dad,the thought of it makes me sick , did these excuse for parents never even think of that, did it never occur to them ? They neglected their duties as parents & their daughter has paid the price.
Kids go missing all the time all over the world and the majority of the time the parents haven’t done anything a normal parent wouldn’t do.
I think saying the fact she went missing is why they should be punished is a poor argument.
I’m surprised the neglect angle is being debated on this thread.
You simply do not leave 3 children aged 3 and under unattended, with the doors open, whilst you are located 200m away.
It is that simple.
If the child has been abducted, their absence has made that possible.
If the child has got up and wandered off and got lost, their absence has made that possible.
There is no way of getting around that.
The parents (and the rest of their party) have been neglectful.
You understand absolutely fuck all about keeping children safe then.
They’d booked the table for the duration of their holiday as well. It wasn’t a one off.I’m surprised the neglect angle is being debated on this thread.
You simply do not leave 3 children aged 3 and under unattended, with the doors open, whilst you are located 200m away.
It is that simple.
If the child has been abducted, their absence has made that possible.
If the child has got up and wandered off and got lost, their absence has made that possible.
There is no way of getting around that.
The parents (and the rest of their party) have been neglectful.