People on holiday - especially somewhere like a specialist "holiday apartment complex" like the McCanns were staying in - can develop a false sense of security. "Nothing can happen here - we're on holiday".
I guess I feel that if you have kids and take them on holiday with you, rather than having them stay with Grandma or something, you should have them with you. It just seems irresponsible otherwise. I don't buy what the mother said about how it's like the kids would be in bed upstairs and you'd be out in the garden. In my house, at least, if I'm out in the garden in the summer with windows open upstairs, I can hear loud screams and cries. (Okay, if I were rich with a huge house and garden, that wouldn't apply. ;) But the almost four year old would know to look for me in the garden if she had had a nightmare, etc. And if I'm in the back, the front would be locked.
*sigh* One of the many reasons I don't have kids is that I don't want that sort of responsibility. I guess some parents don't neither. :(
Except... the issue (for me at least) is not that someone could come in and do something, but that children that age SHOULD NOT BE LEFT ALONE! She's FOUR. Her siblings are TWO. Kids that age could get into all sorts of danger ON THEIR OWN.
My guess, and it's just a wild guess, is that some awful accident happened (electrocution, poison, a fall), the child died, and the parents panicked and were afraid that if they were open about it, they would be found negligent, possibly charged, and their other children taken away. So they covered it up. And then things snowballed, and snowballed, and....
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Date: 2007-09-07 05:07 pm (UTC)People on holiday - especially somewhere like a specialist "holiday apartment complex" like the McCanns were staying in - can develop a false sense of security. "Nothing can happen here - we're on holiday".
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Date: 2007-09-07 05:14 pm (UTC)*sigh* One of the many reasons I don't have kids is that I don't want that sort of responsibility. I guess some parents don't neither. :(
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Date: 2007-09-07 05:17 pm (UTC)My guess, and it's just a wild guess, is that some awful accident happened (electrocution, poison, a fall), the child died, and the parents panicked and were afraid that if they were open about it, they would be found negligent, possibly charged, and their other children taken away. So they covered it up. And then things snowballed, and snowballed, and....