Raking over old coals.

[Kaz]

If it had been some couple on a caravan site in Skeggie, leaving their children alone in a caravan whilst they went to the clubhouse to drink and play bingo, there would have been outrage! Social service would have crawled all over them and they probably would have ended up losing their remaining children........

I know what I think happened, but shan't say as this case seems to polarise opinion so much that people end up falling out over it - that is what happened elsewhere when this all first happened

Going back to the OP I think it is wrong that this case has had so much more publicity than others! Many many children go missing every year, but they don't get the publicity or indeed the beatification in the media that the McCanns have had I find it bizarre TBH

[saundra]

it must be trully horrendos to have a child taken from you like that
and you live with the guilt forever
i see a child has been found in greece
from a gyspy place who is she were does she belong??

[Kaz]

Goodness only knows Saundra, she is very blonde but then sometimes blonde children are born to southern and eastern European parents, genetics being what they are......

[Workingman]

What a lovely little girl. Hopefully she will now be reunited with her true family. DNA should be able to pin down her ethnic identity and concentrate the search for her parents in that group.

As for my OP: The BBC drove the re-awareness of the case in order to promote its Crimewatch Special. Why there was a "special" we are not sure. The response here, in Germany, and the Netherlands was rather tame, even underwhelming. We know that because had there been any new and concrete leads discovered they would have been plastered all over our screens. We haven't had that, so the story has quietly slide back out of sight.

[pederito1]

Give out Kaz, please, promise not to fall out whatever it is.

[cromwell]

There is a story that soldiers involved in the bloody sunday events in NI forty years since are to face prosecution.
This is all getting a bit ridiculous. Who are they going to investigate next, Billy the Kid?

[KateLMead]

The judicial system has gone mad. These individuals will probably get off with a caution if as seemingly they can be proved
To have abducted or trafficked the child.. Human Right in action.
This country is full of trafficked children and teenagers brought here to slave beg and as sex objects they are ignored.
NOTHING is done about them until the authorities are forced to take action and that action is mediocre "Cess Pit England!"

[Kaz]

There is a story that soldiers involved in the bloody sunday events in NI forty years since are to face prosecution.
This is all getting a bit ridiculous. Who are they going to investigate next, Billy the Kid?

Madness!

[Aggers]

I was surprised the other day to hear how many hundreds of children all over the world go similarly missing every year.

I am, consequently, at a loss to understand why this one isolated case has received, and is still receiving, so much publicity.

The only good that it will do, in my opinion, is to drum it into parents that they should not leave their children unattended in similar circumstances.

[shazsha]

Tbh, I don't have any problem with the BBC or anyone constantly publicising this case.

After all a child did go missing and I'm sure if the child was related to any of us we'd be happy to see the case being kept in the public eye.

As for other children going missing, etc-in all honesty how many can any of you name/find who disappeared in similar circumstances? I'd previously looked online and most of the missing children are classed as missing because their parent abducted them after the break up of relationships or are older children who have runaway. Personally the only other child I can think of, off-hand, who is missing in this type of circumstance is Ben Needham and though the publicity isn't quite the same for him there has been lots including crimewatch appeals and documentaries about his disappearance.

f it had been some couple on a caravan site in Skeggie, leaving their children alone in a caravan whilst they went to the clubhouse to drink and play bingo, there would have been outrage

As far as I can remember there was huge condemnation of the McCanns and outrage at their actions (in fact they are still thought of/spoken of with much outrage to this day). They certainly didn't get off scot free when it came to people voicing their opinions of them and their actions on the night Madeleine disappeared.
I personally have no problem with the publicity given to the McCann case-every child who goes missing in similar circumstances deserves to be kept in the limelight until we know what happened to them.
And, cards on the table, I don't believe that the child was harmed by those close to her and I promise not to fall out with those who disagree with me