Will you help Madelene?? What do you think of an international yellow ribbon campaign?

Question

Who knows how long it will be before dear little Maddie is found. At the moment it is still a high profile story. I think a yellow ribbon campaign ( cars, gates, trees etc) would help keep this story in the news - as it did with John Mcarthy and Terry Waite. There are already yellow ribbons displayed in her families' home towns.

What do you think ?
If you agree, please will get yellow ribbons up SOON and encourage everyone you know to do the same.

Please God this darling little girl will be returned to her parents very soon.

I'm not sick or sad . I'm a normal mum of 3.
Yes u ignoramus... unfortunately I am well aware that Ben Neehdam was never found.

Duh!!!!
How the hell am I trying to make money ??? You sickko

I know Maddie is not the only missing child. The difference is knowing a name to a face and seeing the parents anguish.I know there are hideous crimes against children every day... the vast majority going unreported. I give what I can afford to childrens charites.

Wow! Not the response I expected. But I do recognise the right of freedom of speech.
JUST OUT OF INTEREST(not having a dig) HOW MANY OF YOU ARE PARENTS ?

Answer 1

I think it is a lovely thing to do, and shows that your heart is in the right place. I know it wont bring the little angel back, but we are showing her family that we care by keeping her in the public spotlight. Dont listen to these bunch of morons, they are too interested in their own paethetic little lives to even care.

I will get a little yellow ribbon to show the family i am thinking of them always and everyday in my heart.

Dont be afraid to show your support, and sod what everyone else thinks. who gives a stuff about them. I salute you!

Answer 2

No, I am not a parent, but I was a child (weren't we all?) and i am a qualified and experienced Nursery Nurse and a guide Leader.

I will not be wearing yellow ribbons, or anything else for Maddie.

Yes, it is really sad that someone, for whatever reason, decided to take this little girl (along with the thousands of other children who go missing around the world every year) but nothing I can do will help get her back.

If the parents hadn't neglected their children so badly, by going out and leaving them alone (is that how they treated them at home, I wonder?) then this wouldn't be an issue!

I do hope that Maddie can but brought home safely, but i have to say that part of me really hopes that this sweet, innocent little child is dead.
I know that lots of you will be appalled by that, but having lived with the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse for the last 25 years, and having the knowledge that I will have to live with it until the day I die, I can categorically say that there are some things worse than death. It is a life sentence, not only for the child, but for everyone else in the family, as well as anyone they have a relationship with (be it friendship or whatever) and all I want is to spare Maddie that.

I don't feel that I need to spare the parents anything - by neglecting the children they deserve the guilt that they undoubtedly feel.

I also know that if something like happened on a trip organised by a school. community group, or other organisation then everybody would be after the heads of the people running the trip - but everyone just feels sorry for the parents! Just shows how right the statistics are when they show that more children are abused by people within their own family than by strangers!

Answer 3

Lovely gesture but won t bring her back nor will all the media campaigns that are going on the people who abducted her are not going to think oh look everyone is wearing a yellow ribbon better send her back.

The media are just using the poor girl to sell more and more papers not many missing kids get this amount of publicity i feel for the girl and i look at my little girl and i can never contemplate this hapening to me it is too scary to think about but i think all this publicity will hinder the case rather then help it as the abductors know what the police are doing

Answer 4

I won`t be doing that.Have you ever considered the UN annual papers on child abductions published at the end of each year ? Last year the UN estimated some 100,000 + children go missing around the world...Did you or anybody consider them ?Child poverty,slave labour,child soldiers and peadophilia are some of the reasons for it all.
Instead of buying yellow ribbons or texting a message of support to a friend why don`t you give some money to one of the many child orientated charities in the UK and do some real good ???
Do you not realise people are making a fortune from all the extra text messages,Ribbon sales,paper for posters and so on?

Nobody is saying you are making money, it`s the business and commercial people we are all talking about.
Every text message sent costs about 12p of up to 60p if sent abroad,times that by several thousand and you will see that many thousands of pounds are being spent,Why not give that to a charity that could help hundreds of children?


In answer to your last posting...yes we are to 1 daughter whos safety has never been compromised in all her 26 years.
and just a little bit of news for you it has been reported in the sunday papers that the mccanns left thier children every night during thier holiday unattended whilst they went out for a meal and a drink...Now that IS neglect on a whole new scale..not using the free baby sitting service provided by the hotel

Answer 5

I think somebody's making a fortune producing yellow ribbons!

Yellow is SO last season, you know...it was supposed to be the hot colour for summer but then everybody realised they look ghastly in it. So somebody has a hell of a lot of yellow cloth left over...what to do....hmmmm....

Seriously, yellow ribbons are worthless. Good police work, media exposure and cash rewards for reliable information - these solve crimes. Not a bunch of strangers emoting and defacing trees.

Do like the suggestion about the charity contribution to Save the Children. A very worthy charity indeed.

Answer 6

I am a parent and choose not to wear a yellow ribbon . I am thinking of this little girl everyday and hoping she is returned unhurt her to her family. I am annoyed that people say that because we don't wear one that we are heartless . Why is it your opinion is the only way to show support . I am not a brainless Moran or heartless i just choose to think of the child a different way . We are entitled to think of the little one in our own way and think of all those that have been taken . i still remember little Ben Neden and i didn't have to wear a yellow ribbon to remember that 15 years on . Let us think of the child in our own way not have ribbons rammed down our throats .

We all want the little one returned alive and unhurt .

Answer 7

I'm very much here love in the same boat as you 3 or mine and 5 of his so i have 8 too boot.
mine are the younger one's.
even tho the youngest is 7 i'm always worried and wondering who is going to hurt him or hurt us all in some way or the other.
i know what it feels like when your kid dont come home on time or is home a bit late.
i just wish for maddy to come back home safe and sound.

Answer 8

I would rather that all those caring folk who wish so much to help this little girl donate to a charity such as save the children. Poor little Maddys plight is in the newspaper but there are millions of little children out there in equal danger of abuse and neglect who are never heard about in the media, they are equally important though. Give a little to help a child, ANY child.

Answer 9

This is the 3rd post today saying this. I don't think yellow ribbons are going to make the little girls abductors release her to be honest. Public support is great but ribbons on gates? How about a little fund raising to send a few private detectives out there.

Answer 10

Never really understood the need for yellow ribbons for every event. I would rather collect all the ribbons up and when we find the sick bastard that took her, string him/her up with them.