Bearing in mind that 90% of child deaths are from family members, are you suggesting that the parents should not have been investigated at all?
If you agree that the parents should have been investigated along with other lines of enquiry, then, as the Portugese law requires an Arguido status for direct questionning, are you suggesting that they were not named as suspects to ask the parents specific questions about Maddies disappearance?
Or do you fall into the category that 'the parents have suffered enough and shouldn't be questioned'?
Wouldn't that stop justice for thousands of children and permit murdering parents to go free? Even if the McCanns are innocent, isn't it naive to ASSUME they are innocent without investigating properly?
2007-09-24 22:39:52 · 21 answers · asked by Marky 6 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Firecat, I imagine the figures vary, but here's a couple of references I have found:
http://missingchildprevention.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/lindsey-d-porter-and-samuel-g-porter/
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940711/07110111.htm
2007-09-24 22:59:27 · update #1
Im what you call pro McCann,and of course it is right that the parents should be questioned,I dont think anyone has suggested otherwise.
Just because people think they are innocent does not mean that they dont want the police to do their job.
2007-09-24 22:45:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 4⤋
Yes I agree, the authorities would never stop questioning any suspects whether they have public sympathy or not.
From any criminal investigation relating to the disappearance of any member of a child, teenager, adult family member(s) who are presumed missing, the proper role for the police is to start the investigation and questioning with the parents as a matter of procedure. The investigation would be as follows:
(a) A factual record of the movements of the missing person
(b) Family members movements
(c) Establish whether the person was happy, did any rows take place ?
(d) Where the missing person's friends and typical places they visit on a daily basis
These questions are necessary. On the McCann case the press were called first and the police last, which is strange enough. Now the McCanns have been declared as suspects then the police would have every right to question them when they required to do so and continually until they have some answers. I don't think they have suffered enough considering they were allowed to come back to Britain.
2007-09-24 23:06:35 · answer #2 · answered by puffcandy007 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The "professional's" have not got the authentic info to remark on. no person, no longer the pro's or the anti's be responsive to what befell to that candy baby. The "anti's spout vile rumour, inuendo's, meant leaks, untruths, rumours and only simple gossip. It could be very comforting for the McCann's to be responsive to that each and all the anti's be responsive to the reality until now something of the worldwide does. Oh, and by utilising the way, I do watch television and study the newpapers yet I actual have a recommendations of my own and could make my own judgements.
2016-10-19 21:51:44 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The suspect status and the questions should have been and continue to be the business of the police, the mccanns and their representatives. Period. i am neither pro nor anti maccann but i am anti-media. the newspapers were far too quick off the mark to condemn this couple and force their opinions on the public it seems the catchier the headline the truer the story is the way this has been handled. people have as much right to believe they are guilty as they do to believe they are innocent but the media should exercise a bit more caution.
2007-09-24 23:05:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been labeled as a pro-McCann simply because I do not subscribe to the _hatred_ directed at them, from this site.
Who says that they shouldnt be investigated?
The benefit of the doubt should be that they are innocent until proven guilty
unfortunatly, that does not suit many people on this site.
they want them hung, drawn and quartered on the basis of a few words in a blog, a tiny inflection in a 30 second TV interview and a 1/2 page of speculation in a tabloid journal
Take your straw-man arguments elsewhere
2007-09-24 22:53:02 · answer #5 · answered by Vinni and beer 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
i dont think many people who support the mcanns think they should not have been investigated or even made suspects as you said most cases like these a family member is guilty but there are also the 10% of cases where they are not guilty .sometimes i wonder whether the people against the mcanns remember this. imo in this case there is more chance the parents didnt kill their daughter than did. although they are partly responsible for the situation as they did leave those poor kids alone!!
2007-09-25 00:05:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but this seems a bit of a daft question, I don't think anyone has suggested that the parents should not be questioned/investigated. Surely that goes without saying in a missing child investigation. If my child went missing, I'd expect to be questioned.
2007-09-24 22:48:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I agree that they should be investigated, I also feel you are taking this 'pro' and anti' thing a little too seriously, I am not pro mccann in as much as I do not condone the fact they left their children, I am just not against people before any evidence has been found that's all. I doubt many of the 'pro' mccanns are big fans of these people, they just refuse to partake in a witch hunt that is unnecessary at this moment in time as the parents have not been found guilty.
I believe anyone in this situation should be investigated, it is only right to follow all lines of enquiry and this is what they are doing.
2007-09-24 22:47:10 · answer #8 · answered by peroxide.pixie 5 · 8⤊ 2⤋
No, I think they should have been investigated. In fact, I heard an interview with Kate McCann, before they were made suspects, in which she said she expected it, as part of a thorough police investigation.
what I didn't expect though, where the theories, the accusations, the lynchmob attitude as experienced on here. The hateful rage which people hurled at the parents was shocking.
Also, I would like to feel that the police weren't blinkered and were looking at other scenarios as well. Blaming the parents is one easy option and making the crime fit happens all to often , not necessarily in this case, but in cases like that of Sally Clarke.
2007-09-24 23:08:27 · answer #9 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
They should do everything to know what happened with or without parents doesn't mater that's what they tried.
I think the McCanns should have a bit more respect for their daughter and try to answer at least 20 questions half of it...
"We help with anything to find our lovely Madeleine" just don't ask any questions. How absurd is that?
Great question.
2007-09-24 23:06:28 · answer #10 · answered by Tim 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋