Madeline McCann's Mother to be charged with Daughter's murder

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[pillut48]

Police have enough evidence to charge her. Breaking on Fox News right now.

[twigs]

They ate dinner outdoors within sight of their lodgings, so it’s not quite as bad as it sounds.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"Do accidental overdoses sometimes lead to bleeding? If the child’s blood was found in the rental car, how would this be explained by an accidental overdose?"

Good question. But the scenerio I have heard forwarded on the news is that the child died accidentally and the parents hid and later moved the body. The car was rented some 3 weeks after the disappearance. If, and I repeat IF, it is true that the parents did move the body ... after 3 weeks or so there would be decomposition and bodily fluids may have leaked into the car. Unless the body had been kept in a fridge, there would have been decomposition. Gross to contemplate ... but that it the way it would have been.

[Andy'smom]

I read the mother is a GP and the father is a cardiologist.

But, if the Police have all this evidence, then where’s the body?

[Perdogg]

I don’t know enough about the case to make form an opinion either way. This case to me is more suspicious than the Ramsey case. I think everytime a child disappears the parents should be suspects until cleared (given that they innocent til proven guilty).

[tsmith130]

I’ve asked that exact question several time on other threads here. I’m also curious, how soon after the dinner with their friends ended did they contact anyone about their daughter being gone? The police? The friends they were with? If they truly did discover that their daughter had died, they were coherent enough to take her body out somewhere and get rid of it...and it still hasn’t been discovered somewhere? Do they know the area that well? They are convincing enough to fool all friends and family? IF this charge is true, how can they sustain a charade like this for this long? I don’t have any answers...just questions.

[Perdogg]

Portgual is a cheap vacation location.

[Malacoda]

They left their three children -- Madeleine, who was 3 at the time, and a set of twins (18 months to two years?) old, alone and asleep in a vacation rental apartment, leaving the door unlocked, while they went out to dinner.

Apparently, they did the same the night before, and Madeleine woke up screaming for her daddy -- the McCanns had to be summoned from their social event (the horror!0 to attend to her.

Even if they DIDN'T kill her (which I strongly suspect they did -- possibly inadvertently), they're neglectful, irresponsible and horrible.

[Sue Perkick]

I don't believe they were quite as close as some think.

[Guenevere]

You clearly need to see the overhead view of this location which shows how far apart the restaurant & apartment were, and there was no view of the apartment door.

Leaving three children under four years alone in an unlocked hotel room in a strange country is INSANE!

[khnyny]

It certainly happens. It may not be an everyday thing, but it happens.

LOL. Your original statement inferred that Doctors routinely drug their own children.

Just about everything "certainly happens" in this world, from teachers molesting their students to human traffickers stealing children out of their homes to sell on the black market as slaves to the global porn trade. Does it happen every day? Thank God, no. But, hey, it does happen.

[Orange1998]

If the child’s blood was found in the rental car

Find all the renters of the car after the abduction.

[Madeleine Ward]

I’m still trying to figure out why I should have any sympathy at all for these parents, who left their little children alone in a hotel room.

Who does such a thing? How selfish is that?

If someone took the child, my sympathy is with the little girl because if she’s found alive, she certainly doesn’t deserve to be returned to the parents. I fail to understand why, given what we know, the other children have not been taken away from them. It’s their fault the child is missing.

[null and void]

A friend who is a doctor pointed out that doctors who are parents frequently medicate their own children, even when they themselves have no pediatrics expertise.

I suppose.

If they were in the habit of medicating their own kids, just a little something to help her sleep while mommy and daddy are out to dinner, and stay asleep while momy and daddy make the beast with two backs when they get back.

Only mommy and daddy both gave her a full dose.

[twigs]

I had not seen this. You’re right. I’ve always been hesitant to condemn other parents parenting practices.

[utahagen]

I believe the parents are guilty, but I can’t imagine how they concealed Madeleine’s body for more than a few hours on the night she disappeared. Bodies decompose very quickly, especially in the summer heat, and the stench of a dead body is supposedly one that would waft very far. Perhaps the evidence found in the rental car was transferred from the parents’ clothes when they moved the child’s body three weeks before. We shall see.

[CT102ndInfSister]

Interesting. Maybe they are actually seen on video removing the body.

[Battle Axe]

I won’t be visiting Portugal because I will not allow myself to be framed for some crime I did not commit.

It is beyond me how they can accuse these parents of anything other than leaving their child in what they thought was a secure place.

People in Europe do not have the same attitudes as Americans when it comes to child care. Remember the Danish couple who left their sleeping toddler in a stroller outside a store. We were outraged, but it is the norm in Denmark.

I believe that the authorities are trying to cover a botched investigation and framing the McCanns.

[sarasota]

Thanks for the link but now you’ve gone and done it. I am obsessed with cases like these!

[ClaireSolt]

It is a very beautiful country, but when I was there it was a fascist police state. They should have heeded the warning when the cops told them to leave a few weeks ago, imho. The dictator is gone now, but the cops don’t change much.

[wideawake]

Your original statement inferred that Doctors routinely drug their own children.

You probably mean implied.

And what do you mean by "drug"?

Plenty of doctors will write a scrip for a rash lotion or for an antibiotic for their children.

We are not generally talking about Valiums or Percocets, but the kind of thing where a civilian takes their kid to a doctor, waits for an hour or more and the doctor takes one look at the kid and says: "That's eczema. Here's a prescription, bye!" or listens to the kid's breathing for a few seconds and says: "Bronchitis. I'll call you in a prescription for an antibiotic."

Doctors, rather than go through this charade, will often deal with the eczema themselves directly.

This kind of innocuous stuff is not comparable to your hyperbole about "human trafficking."

Inevitably a few doctors will probably cross the line in medicating their kids, while most won't.