If what I have just read about the McCanns is true?

Question

I have just read somewhere that "Sir Gerry" is to be trying to make a stand against child abduction and to try and teach parents about the bad sides of neglecting children.

Ok, here is my question. Which parent is going to listen to him and take him seriously?? Its my view that other parents should be proving to him just what child neglect means, not vice versa.

Please can this man just be gagged.

And please let us find poor missing Madeleine.

I'm really looking forward to reading how the Pro McCann team can defend him this time.

Answer 1

No one is, Mr T. Excellent q.
And sorry, but while it's gratifying to read all the so-called 'pro-McCanns' - whatever that means - giving us the 'hey, everyone makes mistakes' line and without wishing to wind any of you up, you should realise that Gerry McCann has simply not accepted the point you yourselves are making.
He has not accepted he made a mistake. He does not accept that any 'blame' or 'responsibility' should attach to his actions on the evening of 3 May. He does not believe that Madeleine would have been any safer if he had been in the room with her. He does not believe that dining in the tapas bar was placing her at risk. He does not believe that it was any different from having a bbq in the garden. He does not believe that it was any different than sleeping in the next room.
This isn't my opinion, btw. This has been part of the problem re Gerry from Day One.
Now, by all means do defend the parents regarding the fund, the campaign, the trips abroad and whatever else. That's your right. You can even defend his right to leave his children alone without a childminder - some of you have indeed defended his right to do that. That's fair enough.
But don't ascribe to Gerry McCann opinions he is on record as not holding, simply because it makes you feel better about your support for him.

Answer 2

I agree with you, I would not accept any lecturing from Gerry McCann or his wife Kate. how can any parents caring enough take Gerry McCann seriously. I think he has a lot to learn about awareness towards child neglect and abduction which has'nt been proven.

He should be considing the hard lessons of their actions and that includes his wife Kate who in all of this is Madeleine's Mother before lecturing others.

Answer 3

Gerry McCann better not have the nerve to lecture me on childcare. I never left my children alone at night while I went out partying, leaving them vulnerable to any one of a thousand things that could've happened. Sadly with Madeleine, I don't think we'll ever know the truth.

Answer 4

Yeah - its a joke isn't it? Like a Vampire addressing a blood donor convention.

HOWEVER !!! Some parents may listen to him - You get former drug addicts going round schools warning about the dangers of drugs so, what better than a neglectful parent to warn others about keeping hold of their own kids.

Not that he would see it like that - 'immune from the police' 'almost a million in the fund' 'rich & famous falling over themselves to 'help' him' 'a darling of the press' - he proberbly thinks that he can walk on water.

Answer 5

How about this one although it was a few years ago in the States, man "forgot" his child in the van for several hours and she died from heat, talk about child neglect, there was a lot of uproar from the light sentence he received, how do you leave a small tot in car for several hours, she was supposed to be in the car of an older sibling and the father actually laid blame on the other child...so there so many forms of neglect. Many claimed it to be an "unfortunate accident" I am sorry, you don't leave one child in the care of another and not check periodically

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38484-2004May19.html

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/131639701.html?dids=131639701:131639701&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+3%2C+2002&author=Josh+White&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=B.01&desc=Father+Says+Toddler+Was+In+Son%27s+Care

Answer 6

Sir Gerry is that was he is called now, well I only know about him for neglecting his own chidren so who better to demonstrate the results of child neglect?

Answer 7

I form of have faith that this got here from somebody interior the Algarve as a results of understanding with regard to the lixo containers. yet on the Sky information internet site a month after the little lady went lacking? perhaps this is authentic, yet till lots of the human beings who heard the babies crying for hours on end come forward and conform to be named, the tidbit can not have legs. My first concept once I examine this is it could have come from a supporter of Robert Murat, who has been dealt with atrociously by utilising the British press and is making an attempt to coach the tables. I even have examine the posting on the hyperlink and a number of the responses. a pair of folk say, "If she became crying all night, then her abduction does not have long gone undetected". My reaction to that's, "rubbish". in reality, it makes it extra elementary to abduct a newborn that age while they're distressed and crying for the mothers and dads. The abductor could say, "i will take you to them". babies that age are so trusting. I had such an come upon final Saturday, the place a woman had left her newborn status by utilising the door of a DIY shop. I requested her the place her Mummy became, she pronounced she did no longer comprehend, and once I took her by utilising the hand (I needless to say did no longer abduct her, even with the undeniable fact that it could have been relatively hassle-free!) she became in the present day pacified, and relatively grew to alter into satisfied and playful. i locate it completely credible that Maddie became lured out of the home by utilising an grownup who promised to take her to her mothers and dads. a newborn that age does not comprehend the adaptation between a style-hearted stranger and a could-be abductor. they're going to sit down quietly interior the vehicle for hours as a results of fact they suspect the ensures of reunification. And before somebody accuses me of offering advice to could-be abductors of babies, I say "double rubbish". a million. people who could do injury already comprehend it, and 2. the reason being to warn mothers and dads to no longer pass away their toddlers on my own for prolonged sessions, if in any respect. and 3. - this is a be responsive to advice to those that are style-hearted strangers to help little young babies relatively locate their mothers and dads as a replace of pretending the sight or sound of a distressed newborn is none of our corporation. as a results of fact the subsequent person could be a pretender.

Answer 8

I cant stand when people say stuff like 'Who better to lecture about child neglect issues' or 'They are out there doing something pro-active and should be congratulated for it'

So if I run out, go drink driving and kill someone, as long as I then get out there and lecture on the dangers of drink driving, then that makes everything OK then. Stuff the person I killed in amongst it all, at least Im teaching everyone a lesson.

In case some people have forgotten, Madeleine is most likely DEAD. And the chain of events that led to her death started directly with her parents. Don't anyone dare to convince me I should be standing there clapping my hands at these two .......
Madeleine would be ashamed at some of the comments on here, and Im not talking about the ones coming from me!

Answer 9

my concern about this is that he doesnt have knowledge about how to keep children safe, so what advice can he give other parents. He hasnt acknowledged that children are at risk from danger and harm whilst unsupervised. He hasnt acknowledged that whatever harm M has come to, it was because of neglect and lack of supervision. How then can he advise people of how to keep children safe.

Answer 10

i only have a question for the police.why dont they bother to investigate the couple, that let their children alone ,and let them be arrested?i am a mother of two and i cant let them alone for 2min,and especially with horrible stories we listen every day,and you think ,if you leave your children alone police can arrest you ,why hasnt police arrested them? And why so much press, who do they think they are?Or is it because they are proper british born people ?if they were some immigrants nobody could have bothered.i dont want their lessons ,i have heard enough couples whose children have been taken only because they have left them for minutes alone,and when i do smth i think the consequenses.And to think that they were in a foreing place ,,,,,,,,,,,i dont feel sorry for them its their fault.How maNY CHILDREN are lost every day ,taken from their parents,every day ,and why are they so special when its their fault ,,,,,,,,,,,,,just think