A tale of two classes

Police refuse to rule out charging Kim rowlands with negligence after she left her child unattended in the car for a matter of minutes when it tragically rolled into a river and she died.

Gerry and Kate McCann continue to live the life of riley after leaving their children alone in an unlocked room while they went out drinking resulting in the disappearance of their daughter. Yet more money is handed over to look for her 11 years after her disappearance.

 

The life of Riley - a luxurious and carefree existence epitomised by couples who have had their daughter kidnapped and don't know if they're alive or dead.

 

Don't know is very debatable imo although I accept life of Riley is perhaps the wrong term to use.

 

Well perhaps you could start the case for how they're continuing to live the Life of Riley, if you want to debate it.

Off you go......

 

Regardless of the quality of life they are living now the fact they have never been charged is disgusting in my opinion

 

Both tragic incidents that I imagine will haunt both sets of parents for the rest of their lives. You're completely wrong if you think the McCann's are living a life of riley.

I tend to agree with you on the money going into the search but not because they should give up looking, just that all missing children should never be given up on yet it doesn't feel like this is true. Nothing to do with class, a missing child is a missing child.

 

And the point of charging them with something is what? And what more punishment is necessary?

They have suffered a life of notoriety shame and loss.

 

Have both families not suffered enough. Just leave it, its undignified to try and attach some kind of pc issue to it. Losing a child (regardless of fault) is punishment enough.

 

The only thing I know about the McCann’s is that if they had been unemployed from Kendray and left their kid unattended they would have been vilified on the front of every paper and put out in prison.

 

Because they have other children? Because the law should be applied to everyone the same?
Are you suggesting parents shouldn't be charged with neglect if the child dies/is lost?
By that logic if you leave young children unsupervised for a few hours and they are ok then it doesn't matter as no harm was done?

 

Leaving your children alone isn't against the law.

 

Absoulety spot on. To leave children unattended in such a way is astonishing to me.

 

It is a offence to leave your child alone if it places them at risk.

 

I have 2 girls 5 & 7 it wouldn’t even cross my mind for a second to leave them unattended and vulnerable.

 

My parents used to go for a drink when we were on holiday and safely in bed. My parents aren't unusual. Butlins, for example, used to advertise that parents could do this.

 

Life has moved on though hasn’t it? My grandad died of lung disease working in the mines if you work in the mining industry today the chances of this have been minimised.

Do you think the McCann’s would have been treated differently if they had been unsympathetic unemployed people from a rough council estate?

 

I neither know nor care. They've lost a daughter, that's the important thing. The fact that someone else might be treated differently is not their fault. They are victims. By all means, have a go at the press for a million and one inconsistencies, but why use a family who have lost a child to do it.

In a post Madeleine McCann abduction world it certainly has. When they left their kids on what they thought was a safe holiday resort they weren't living in one.

 

Actually I don't know. The only case that comes to mind that was similar to that of the McCann's is that of Shannon Matthews. This happened to a working class family from a council estate, but as it turned out the whole thing was an act of deceit by the family, I can't really draw any parallels.

Young children being abducted from home/holiday home is such a rare thing that it's difficult to make any comparisons. The fact that it's such a rare thing is why the McCann's, like thousands of others, thought it safe to do what they did.

 

Ben Needham?