I wonder if it will be an honest account about how they left 3 very young children alone while they went for a meal with friends at a restaurant where they couldn't see their room so it may as well have been a hundred miles away. Yes a book about child neglect is what this should be but of course it won't. The fact that they have never taken responsibility for leaving Madeleine alone is why there is little sympathy for them, only that poor child.
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Who would want to buy such a book???? Should they have stayed in the apartment ....well what else needs to be said?
I get very cross when I hear blanket statements such as "everyone does it " or " we all take risks and leave our children alone whilst we nip to the pub etc" I can honestly say I have never done this. We used to stay in selfcatering cottages in Whitby when my children were young. We either took them with us to eat or I cooked just as I do at home. I know many people think they deserve time to themselves on holiday but I didn't mind cooking, it does not take long to prepare a few vegetables or salad and cook some meat or fish. Is tapas so good that you would leave 3 children under 4 years old alone?
Oh PLEASE don't use this, or other articles on these people, for venting your hatred and anger at them. They will feel sad and guilty until the day they die. Leave them alone if you cannot find it in your heart to offer them your compassion. You are so lucky you have never made a fatal mistake.
Will this book actually contain anthing new and be worth reading? We already seem to have been told every detail about this case over and over again over the years so I doubt it somehow. My thoughts are with Madeleine
I'm sorry but why are they releasing a book again? How is this going to help exactly?
Jenny from London-i agree totally with your comment-a child was abducted,probably murdered for gods sake!!!
This is a good time to remember another lost child, Ben Needham. Ben went missing on the 24th July 1991 whilst on holiday with his family in Kos, he was 21 months of age. Don't forget this child,there is stuff on the internet all over the place and there is a picture of him looking as the artist thought he would look like at 18 as well. Kerry, his mum you are in my prayers, I hope, one day, you will hold your son in your arms again, God Bless.
How sad that the British people have been reduced to this type of inhumanity, all this hate towards a couple who have lost their baby in horrific circumstances, shame on you all, it must be great to know that you all are perfect parents.
As another person said, if they were working class, council house tenants or a bunch of rowdy chavs they would have been prosecuted and they would hang their heads in shame and not show their face again. The McCann's think they are immune to this because they are doctors who did "a silly thing". I wish they would understand that people are sick of them and their publicity seeking.
Everybody knows of course, that even The Pitchforkers will buy this book. They won't be able to resist trying to rip it to pieces since they are now getting very short of anything coherent to say. No one will dare post it On Line anywhere. Copyright Laws are very strict the world over. You may well be able to steal my good name, but woe betide anyone who steals my Copyright. I do so hope that the book by The McCanns is a best seller. The search for Madeleine must go on.
if the royal wedding and the book launch is in the same week, no one will buy the book cos it wont generate enough publicity due to the wedding taking up all the news. so it is a sales ploy to postpone the book.
Will they be including transcripts of the police reports where Kate refuses to answer the questions? Or showing photographs of the two sniffer dogs who traced blood and human remains in their apartment and in the Renault Scenic they hired? BOTH stone cold facts which I'm guessing won't be making into this fairystory.
What nasty, cruel people are on hear who seem to revel in the McCanns' nightmare. The attitude of people on hear is summed up by the armoury of red arrows give to Gill in Kent simply for expressing the wish that Madeleine is found alive and well soon. Nasty people consumed with hatred. Red arrow away; do you think anyone cares what people like you think? I, along with Gill, would be delighted if that child were found alive, though I think it exceptionally unlikely. God forbid all you haters have something too awful for words like this befall you.
How many copies do they expect to sell? telling the story of how they left their daughter and her siblings and went out for a meal. I am still awaiting charges to be brought for child neglect. - J M Harvey, Builth Wells Powys, 3/1/2011 12:00 I do agree with you. Poor little Madeleine has been totally neglected by her parents and now totally neglected by the law.
I am still awaiting charges to be brought for child neglect. - J M Harvey, Builth Wells Powys, 03/1/2011 ..... J, my guess is that many more people than would admit have taken similar risks on holiday with their own children. Even this month the hotel in Portugal where my cousin stayed offers a "telephone monitoring service" using the telephone in the room as a baby monitor to pick up noises etc while parents are free to dine in the hotel restaurants. She contemplated it for a while claiming it was not that different from beinh at home with her baby sleeping upstairs!! She decided not to after friends and family reminded her of Madeleine. Children or babies should not be left unsupervised and certainly not so the parents can enjoy themselves. If you don't want to be 'inconvenienced' on holiday then either don't go or arrange for a trusted relative to care for them at home. No chill time is worth risking your children's safety for. Short memories!
- Lost For Words, Gloucester, England, 03/1/2011 12:26 ================ It was NOT a hotel room. The 3 children all under the age of 4 were left in a 2-bedroom apartment (which included a kitchen and a bathroom) and it was not even part of the Mark Warner complex.
Why are the comments wishing them well being red arrowed and why are the nastier comments the best rated? What is wrong with people? Whatever you may think of them, they have lost their daughter. Leaving their children alone was wrong, but no one deserves to have their daughter abducted for it. There are a lot of cold heartless people out there. Shame on you all.
I hope it helps find her. - Carmen, London, 3/1/2011 11:02 Why on earth was this comment red-arrowed?? My God, what is WRONG with you people? Your hatred for the McCanns seems to be all you are interested in and in fact you seem to REVEL in it...going on and on ad nauseum about how they left them, yet that you disagree with the above comment tells me you lot are not one bit interested in Madeleine as you purport! What kind of people ARE you?
The launch of this book is vitally important and as that is the case,Wills and ? I have forgot her name,should postpone their wedding to a more convenient date
Oh please, is this for real? Do they really think releasing their book on whatever date will make any difference to the Royal Wedding? - N Williams, UK, 03/1/2011 12:26 Why comment when you haven't bothered to read the article? The publishers have made a sensible, commercial decision to change the publication date in the light of the Royal Wedding. If you'd written a book, wouldn't you want to publish it at a time when it would be likely to receive the optimum amount of publicity?
I cannot believe the spiteful comments on this site. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. Yes, it is a fact that the McCanns made a terribly wrong choice in leaving their children alone but, for God's sake, don't you think they have been and are continuing to be punished, nay tortured, enough without your nasty remarks. They are doing everything in their power to get her back, whether or not it's 'fair' that they are getting so much publicity is really not their fault- do you expect them to turn it down and give up on getting their daughter back? If you so strongly disagree with the publicity, don't look at it - simple as that!! I suggest a few of you put finding a little compassion down as your new years resolution this year.
More like they wanted to make sure that Brand McCann gets 100% of the publicity and 100% of the sales. Hopefully people will see them for what they are.
What has their book to do with the Royal Wedding? - Sue, London, 3/1/2011 7:17 ============================== In all the Royal Wedding hullabaloo the book will not make the impact they hope for. If they delay it until afterwards, when the public's attention turns back to other news, it will get more attention. There are plenty of vitriolic comments here about the McCanns, but just suppose their daughter is still alive somewhere - constantly keeping her memory in the public eye may just find her. However idiotically they behaved as parents on that holiday, it was not Madeleine's fault and she deserves to be found. To jeer and wish they would just go away ignores the fact that their efforts at publicity are now the only real hope of discovering where she is.
Am I alone in being utterly fed up with the McCanns? The loss of their child was obviously quite devastating, but some considered opinions feel that it was partly due to their negligence. This latest exercise will achieve nothing, and harsh as it may sound it is time for them to move on with their lives.
I think the best thing they could do with the book is to put it somewhere the sun doesn’t shine
I think its time people like you lot should shut up, its been four years they have been punished enough and will go on punishing them selves without you morons, my wife and I lost our son for four hours it was agony so shut up.
The McCanns self importance knows no bounds.
Sadly, Madeleine's disappearance , basically because young children were left alone, while the parents dined out, has turned into a gravy train. We all feel sorry, but life has to go on, something the two guilt ridden parents are unable to accept. Every day parents somewhere lose a loved child. The McCanns will take to their graves, the fact that they failed a most basic parental duty and should now shut up. Their obsession with publicity should no longer be fed by the media and a proper sense of proportion established.
I thought that we had heard the last of this boring saga. We had six months of it in the Daily Mail nearly every day, then countless "revelations" to let the story run, surely there is nothing else that can be of the slightest interest to anyone.
I feel a bit mean writing this and this might sound harsh - but why do they always get all of the media attention? I am sure that if the media spent at least one quarter of their time interviewing the parents of other missing children, these children would have a higher chance of being found. I am sure that parents of missing children resent the McCanns. Yes, it is very sad that their daughter went missing, but there are families who are devastated because they do not know where their children are. I think that the McCanns should donate some of the earnings from their book to a fund the purpose of which is to locate missing children and teenagers.
I hope with all my heart that Madeleine will be found very soon, and I wish the McCann's much luck in their search. I will be buying their book and hope in a small way it will help to find their beautiful daughter. - Kizzy , Baden, Switzerland, 3/1/2011 12:52 ------------------------------- Me too.
Everyone whose parenting skills are under scrutiny get their children taken away but with these two a different set of rules applies.
Such cruel and insensitive comments from some readers! Try loosing a child, no matter what the circumstances,
Why not postpone the Royal Wedding so that all attention can be focussed on Mr and Mrs McCann and their book about how they went out drinking and left their children alone?
Is there any trick this sad couple won't use to try to get free publicity? Now they are trying to cash in on the royal wedding by "delaying" the publication of a book nobody wants to buy anyway, and doing it with maxmum PR. If they had acted responsibly and kept a proper eye on their children (or even hired a baby sitter at a cost of a few pounds) they would never have lost their daughter in the first place! They should thank their lucky stars they were not jailed for failing to fulfil their legal duty of care - it is a CRIME to leave young children unattended.
they should not be writing any book, SHAME on them.
While it is unfortunate that Madeleine has not been found it is also unfortunate that her parents were irresponsible. Any parent with a degree of common sense would not leave their child while they went out to dinner. They would stay with the child and ensure its safety. I do not see what purpose publishing a book called “Madeleine” serves.
How many times dooes it need saying, if the parents had been "working class" or God forbid on benefits they would have been prosecuted for child neglect, and had their remaining kids taken into care. I personally have no time for these pathetic people. I hope they do not sell a single copy.
All the rude and selfish people. So you don't like the parents. Yes, they made a terrible choice. And now a beautiful, innocent child is missing. Nothing in this is her fault. We should all be praying for her safe and swift return. Think of that dear little girl, please. Madeleine, you are always in my thoughts, and in my heart. xo
The only one I feel sorry for is Madeleine, she seems to be the only one who's been forgotten about with all of their headline grabbing antics. I find this couple distasteful on all levels.
I don't quite see what the book will tell that the media hasn't already, and which the McCann's have already told through the media. It is a heartbreaking story, but sometimes it is only when you let go of something in life, that the truth unfolds.
Perhaps in an act of 'good faith' they should donate a potion of their proceeds [if there are any] in order to fund seaches for children who are missing - especially for the children whose parents are not so wealthy so that the cases of missing children can be moved forward... Just a thought.
Bad parents.Go and grieve for Maddy and stop this public caterwauling for your own selfish gratification.You two make me sick.
Enough please...... I remain deeply saddened by the fate of this little girl and feel some sympathy for the parents with regard to their never-ending loss and I sincerely hope that the truth of what happened to her will emerge. However this forthcoming book, perhaps penned to expurgate their own guilt for leaving her alone, may not have their desired effect. Ultimately they chose to leave her as they did and it is for them to live with this; it remains a harsh lesson for them and the rest of us parents faced with similar circumstances.
What a revolting pair of egotists! Next stop," I'm a "celebrity", get me out of here."
So it's going to be their account of what happened that terrible night. Don't we know enough already.
Please Kate and Gerry do not delay the release of this book, cancel it . As you can see from the comments here the public's support is ebbing away due to your constant begging for money. I moderate forums that were at one time very supportive of your campaign yet even there posts are having to be removed due to their unhelpful nature.
I will most definitely be buying this book. Hopefully it will help to find Madeleine.I cannot believe the nasty comments made here about this couple. No matter the circumstances they have lost their child. How can anyone cope with that? The people leaving these nasty comments should think how they would feel if they lost their own child.
How very gracious of them. It will be interesting to see if an injunction is sought to ban the sale of this book in the way that the McCann industry banned the sale of the book in the UK by the Portugeese investigating detective Goncalo Amaral.
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