Madeline McCann

While I feel terrifically sorry for her parents and can understand their wanting to do anythign possible to find their missing daughter, and while I think the outpouring of support for them is heartwarming, I can't help but be disturbed by the huge media circus this has become. How many other little girls (or little boys) went missing at the same time? Why are their cases not getting this sort of attention? Why do little children get this sort of attention, but not older people? An article in the BBC recently told of an older woman who had been dead for SIX YEARS and had not been sought by neighbours or family until her mummified corpse was found in her flat when someone bought it.