I may have got this completely wrong. But, I wonder why responsible parents would leave a small child, home alone, without some kind of supervision, and go out for a meal? I should imagine that in Portugal, for peace of mind, it would have been less than the cost of a meal for two, to have employed the services of a baby sitter? Call it a suspicious mind at work, but it does appear to me to be a rather convenient way of trying to establish an alibi. I wasn't impressed with the initial televised media interview. I thought, 'guilty as sin'. I wonder if it had been a British police investigation, whether the police would have been concentrating on questions closer to home?
As I say, just a thought.
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The whole situation is staggering, but then I speak as a man who has to check on his kids every 10 minutes if I'm in the garden and they're watching telly in the lounge. The idea of leaving a three year old and a pair of younger twins unattended for even five minutes fills me with dread.
Baby monitoring services are all very well, but even then, would it be wise to leave your kids in the care of someone who's not that interested in whether the kids are breathing, just so long as they're not crying... In short, if you wouldn't do it at home, you shouldn't do it abroad. Harsh as it sounds, they are doctors, who probably wouldn't hesitate to put someone else's kids on the At Risk register in similar circumstances..
I just have this gut feeling that something is not right about this whole thing.
Do you think the parents have a pet dingo? Me and Mrs Out Loud left our two, then five and eight, in a secure cell at Disneyland Paris to get some scran.
The little buggers ignored clear instructions and escaped by greasing their bodies, squeezing through the bars, and teetering along a high wall.
But thanks only to being small greasy children they were rumbled by the prison authorities whose onboard computer told them that these were rug rats and not young looking adults.
The so-called babysitting service had not been available. Never again. But we didn't let the dingo eat either of them.
John: that wasn't me. I haven't changed my pic. Haven't had the time.
Ron whoever that prat was I have now deleted the comment and my response to him or her.
I STILL can not understand WHY the press HAVEN'T demonized this PROFESSIONAL,MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY the way they would have DEMONIZED a single ,low income,working class mother.
It does seem strange that not much has been made of this leaving young ones unattended. As you say, if it had been a working class mother she would have been skinned alive.
I remain of the view that this case stinks.
maneatingcheesesandwich.....
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU,THIS "RESPONSIBLE"COUPLE LEFT a three year old and a pair of YOUNGER twins unattended FOR 30 LONNNNNNNNNNNNNG MINUTES.
What's even MORE scary is that LOT'S of mothers condone what these "parents" did.
jailhouselawyer........
Something else that has disturbed me for MANY ,MANY YEARS.
The root cause of this abduction is an adults UNHEALTHY interests in BABIES and CHILDREN.
In England we seem to read on a monthly basis about an adult male who has been caught downloading unsavory images of children onto his computor.
Why doesn't our Government have a public debate in parliment to find out WHY, but also ultimately come down like a TONNE of bricks on child abuses.
Somebody needs to organize a mass rally (a la the Iraq war)to let the
powers that be know that this is a
disease that is growing and needs to be stopped.
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