Age Appropriate
Of Gerry McCann it was said:
And he revealed they were at pains to ensure the
twins never feel overlooked or over-protected because of their tireless search
for Madeleine since she was abducted from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz,
Portugal, on May 3, 2007.
How do we know she was abducted from a holiday
apartment? No evidence of abduction has been found as yet!
Madeleine McCann is listed as a missing child, not
a child abducted.
So Gerry and Kate are at pains to ensure their
remaining children will never feel overlooked or over protected?
Why? Because of their tireless search
for Madeleine!
Now if I recall correctly when Madeleine first was
reported as missing, neither of the McCann parents went out to physically
search for their missing child.
Their reason as told by Kate McCann in televised
interview as to why the McCann couple did not join the many local people in PDL
who gave up weeks of their time to search for Madeleine:
Interviewer:
Did you as a MOTHER Kate just sometimes think ‘I’ve
got to go and be out there with them, I WANT to go and just physically look as
well?’
Kate McCann:
Long pause…. “I mean I did erm tut “
- long pause –
“We’d been working really hard really apart from
the first 48 hours as Gerry said are incredibly difficult and we were almost
non-functioning I would say but after that you get strength from somewhere and
we’ve certainly had loads of support and that has given us strength and it’s
been able to make us focus really so we have actually in OUR OWN WAY, it might
NOT BE PHYSICALLY SEARCHING but we’ve been working really hard and doing
everything we can really to get Madeleine back.”
Short answer – NO the McCann parents DID NOT
physically search for their missing child!
Why?
They were too busy!
Working really hard?
Busy doing what one might ask. Looking
after their other two children?
NOPE – they were put in the crèche in PDL every
day!
Did they work on Gerry’s NEW STORY for the
Portuguese Police in those first SEVEN DAYS? – YES SIREE!
Didn’t go out and look for their daughter – but
they DID get together with their holiday companions to produce the NEW
LOOK TIMELINE which they had presented to the Portuguese Police on 10th May
2007
– SEVEN DAYS after the child vanished.
SEVEN DAYS after Gerry McCann gave Portuguese Police his FIRST ACCOUNT OF
EVENTS.
SEVEN DAYS after the group presented the Portuguese Police with their FIRST
TIMELINE written on the back of missing Madeleine’s colouring book which they
tore apart to scribble on!
Now, in that SEVEN DAYS what would have helped
Madeleine most?
1. Her
parents and their companions getting together to produce ANOTHER version, of
EVENTS of the evening Madeleine vanished. An account which made even less
sense was even less credible than their original story?
Or
2. Madeleine’s
parents and their companions getting off their butts and going out and looking
for the child as just about every man woman and child in PDL were doing?
The McCann twins couldn’t possibly have felt
overlooked due to any TIRELESS SEARCH that first week – as there was NO
tireless search by their parents.
And the twins certainly wouldn’t feel overprotected
– as their parents PUT THEM IN THE CRECHE every day! Knowing the BIG BAD
ABDUCTOR was still on the loose!
So job done Gerry and Kate, the twins would not
have felt either over protected or overlooked by the ‘situation Madeleine found
herself’ – as even missing Madeleine wasn’t getting their full attention – no
physical searching by her parents to try and find her.
If the parents were too busy to search for their
missing child – fat chance the other two would have of getting any
attention! So no chance of them feeling overprotected!
Not then in the early days!
And now?
Gerry, 45, said: "They talk about
Madeleine all the time, that hasn't changed. They talk about her regularly and
draw pictures of her and talk about finding her."
Still they are using the twins, giving press
stories about these two kids, hardly what you could describe as protecting them
never mind overprotecting them. So Gerry is keeping to his
plan...ensuring they don't feel overprotected.
"There's not a day goes by when we don't think
about Madeleine, miss her in some way, and obviously wonder where she is and
what's happened to her."
Yeah, obviously!
We’re all wondering the very same thing - where she
is, and what happened to her after Gerry left her on top of the bed then went
to the bar with his wife, then abracadabra, kid was missing never to be seen
again!
"We kinda have that all the time, but we've
sort of adapted in many ways, and life seems pretty normal most of the
time."
Life is normal now they
have adapted to life without Madeleine?
Well that’s good news –
Goncalo Amaral’s book hasn’t prevented them getting on with their lives – and
the twins are always talking about finding her Gerry said, and it hasn’t
stopped anyone searching for Madeleine looking out for her, press is never free
of alleged sightings of the missing child reported by members of the public.
(An example of how stories invented by their
spokesperson can come back to haunt them?)
The twins according to
their parents in interviews have not been affected in any way by Madeleine’s
disappearance. Happy, normal children we
are led to believe in interviews. ‘They’re
great’ as Kate and Gerry tell us.
So no harm has come to
them from Goncalo Amaral’s book?
Has any harm come to
them from the ‘Madeleine’ Kate McCanns book as some dodgy material contained
therein?
And really – No matter whether the public believe
Madeleine to be dead, and most do – nevertheless, should they see a child who
they think possibly could be her, they would report it to the proper
authorities.
That is what responsible adults who apply common
sense would do.
I could read in a thousand books that Madeleine is
dead. I might personally firmly believe she is dead, but if I saw a child
who I truly thought could be her – still I would report it.
As for McCanns suggesting that the public in any country go out to physically
search now for Madeleine is madness! Madness to suggest, that those who
may have read Truth of the Lie stopped searching due to the content.
Do Kate and Gerry McCann have evidence of anyone who was searching, then read
Goncalo Amaral's book and thought - oh, okay, Madeleine's dead - search
over?
Looks like the ONLY ones who have stopped searching are Gerry and Kate McCann. But I suspect that is because they are trying to save what’s left in the Fund, the monies donated by the public to keep all to themselves. Why should they spend what’s in the Fund when they can keep it for a rainy day, and have the UK taxpayer cough up for the Metropolitan Police Investigation. And that rainy day might be upon them very soon.
"Working hard and doing all the family
things with the kids is important. I've been PRETTY ADAMANT that we have got to
let them develop and they can't be closeted."
Yeah you go for it Gerry, you tell that Kate of
yours that your children will not be closeted, never locked up in holiday
apartments ever again, not seen and not heard.
Insist that
the door at home is left unlocked, in fact all the doors should be left wide
open, windows too, or at least the kids should get their own keys so that they
can come and go as they please…be adamant, be really adamant show her who’s
boss – let those 8 year olds run free…
And you’re right it is important to do all the
family things with the kids – take them with you to pub next time you’re on a
five day bender… (Well what other excuse do you have for not recalling which
doors you used at 5A?)
"I know, for us, there is increased
anxiety but we can't let that impact on them having a normal upbringing.
Obviously it will get harder. They are eight now so they are always supervised,
but in the next couple of years it will be different."
Increased anxiety – Well that’s to be expected, we
are reading news reports every day, about kids in Rothley being ‘taken’
...its huge problem in that area. Even, when parents are sitting in their
gardens, kids being snatched from their beds left right and centre. It’s rife
in Rothley, paedophiles roaming the streets.
Good though Gerry’s twins are 8 years old now, as
seems 8 is the magic number, they always get supervised when 8.
If they were 2 or 3 years of age…well hell that’s a
different story, no constant supervision for under 5’s.
And when they reach 9/10 the luxury of being
protected by their parents being supervised at all times must end, Gerry said
it will be different then, in next couple years.
“Little things - we were at the hotel and they (twins)
said,
'I will go and do it and go to reception and ask for something'.
And you've got to let them.
In a secure environment obviously, appropriate for their age!
Yeah Gerry most 8 year old kids go to the reception
in strange hotels and ask for “something” – some champagne with breakfast, an
early morning alarm call – morning papers, and as you say you’ve JUST GOT TO
LET THEM!
And
if there are any paedophiles watching them, well, it won’t be your fault – if
they come to harm – if like Madeleine they find themselves in a
‘situation’ 8 year olds these days –
minds of their own, what will we do with them?
Gerry
if I could just remind you, your kids were not in a secure environment the
night Madeleine vanished, and leaving them to fend for themselves UNSUPERVISED
at age 2 and 3 years was NOT AGE APPROPRIATE – just as it’s not
appropriate, age wise or otherwise to allow 8 year old kids to go to hotel
receptions and ask for “something.”
What
is this “thing” they have with their kids and hotel rooms?
Didn’t
think, that six years on they would have to be reminded again– that NO you
don’t have to LET 8 year old kids go to hotel receptions!
In
fact, it’s a big fat NO NO Gerry!
Interesting that McCann feels that at 8 years old
his children require to be supervised at all times. He feels it is appropriate that at age 8 they
require this constant supervision.
Has he had a change of heart since 2007 when the
then 3 year old Madeleine vanished on the fifth night of having been abandoned
by her parents together with her 2 year old twin siblings?
Do he and his wife now understand that what they
did was so awful, to have left three tots all of those nights alone in an
unlocked holiday apartment?
Do they now understand that their shocking lack of
care and protection caused the most terrible harm to come to Madeleine, and has
also now shaped the lives of Sean and Amelie?
None of these three children will lead the normal
lives they should have due to the gross negligence of their parents.
But no, sadly they have not changed their attitude
to the care and protection of children, how could they have when they still
will not accept in any way that what they did to Amelie, Madeleine and Sean was
wrong, that they treated them so very cruelly.
Still in interview they sit and defend what they
did.
Until they stand up and be counted on this, admit
that what they “know” to be wrong – then statements such ‘age appropriate’ are
hollow.
"For any parent it's a difficult thing, how
far that envelope stretches into what they want to do and what they think they
are capable of. It's important they do get the level of freedom appropriate,
but it is a difficult balance."
No Gerry you still just ain’t gettin’ it. You
stretched too far, back in 2007 - it’s not a matter of what THEY WANT to do,
and what THEY THINK they are capable of.
Eight year old kids think they are capable of
taking on the world. They are indeed capable of doing lots of things, but
we just DON’T LET THEM go ahead just because they can or want to do something.
It’s a matter of what they tell you they want to do
and how you as a responsible parent respond, what YOU as a responsible parent
allow them to do based on, at all times how SAFE it is for them and if its
suitable for the age they are.
Let’s make it simple for Gerry:
Gerry - YOU PARENT
Sean and Amelie – they EIGHT YEAR OLD CHILDREN!
Parent protects 8 year old kids. Parent tells
8 year old kids hotel receptions not good place to be mucking around asking for
things.
Responsible parent knows hotel reception not for
little ones!
The McCanns sound more stupid with every interview
they give.
Any story at all will do to get the attention they
so crave.
Their tales more bizarre - by the
marathon!
We’ve had the petrol station stories when Kate was
doing her ‘run’ how she left the twins in the car…
Gerry then, not to be left out of the fitness
frenzy, starts hopping, skipping AND jumping, and of course, no show without
punch, he too had a story about Sean and Amelie, one with more ‘daring do’ than
Kate’s paedophiles at the petrol station story. Not to be outdone – he
comes up with his Revelations at Reception…
Soon these kids will be taking over, filling the
car with petrol, and making the hotel reservations for the next family holiday
– Perhaps even doing the hop, skipping and jumping!
At this rate it’ll be Kate and Gerry who will be
left in a locked apartment while Sean and Amelie hit the tapas in town…meet
with their spokesperson (oops wrong order – that’s after they make mummy and
daddy disappear) and their publicist.
They’ll make lots plans for 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th year
anniversaries and beyond – and have a book published, of course – or a whole
series of them, like Janet and John – Peter and Jane
A Gerry and Kate series!
Gerry and Kate go on Holiday
Gerry and Kate Play Tennis
Gerry and Kate Jog
Gerry and Kate Jog Again
Gerry and Kate –Come Dine with Us
Gerry and Kate Leave the Kids
Gerry and Kate and the Patio Door
Gerry and Kate and the Front Door
Gerry and Kate Hire a Car
Gerry and Kate and the Cadaver Dogs
Gerry and Kate and the Dirty Nappies
Gerry and Kate Fishy Story Series
Gerry and Kate and the Red Herrings
Gerry and Kate Love Sea Bass
Gerry and Kate – Their Best Day Ever
Gerry and Kate New Best Friend Matt
Gerry and Kate Leave kids Again
Gerry and Kate Meet Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
Gerry and Kate and Mrs Plummy Voice
Gerry and Kate and the Fucking Tossers
Gerry and Kate –We Love our Kids, Erm Really we Do…
Gerry and Kate go to Court
Gerry and Kate lose in Court
Gerry and Kate Lose in Court Again
Gerry and Kate Lose in Court Once More
Gerry and Kate and the Lost Fund
Gerry and Kate –Where were you (Sean and Amelie)
When We Were Crying, ooops dying for a drinki poo?
Gerry and Kate Phone Home
Gerry and Kate - It's a Disaster
Gerry and Kate Tell the Truth
The kids will tell us stories of how Kate and Gerry
still talk about Madeleine. How they are sorry they never physically
searched for her…Not in the hours which they told the world were the most crucial
and how they will slay the ‘burglar’ who took her…
One has to fear for the McCann twins for many
reasons – not least that their parents insist in giving the press stories about
them, which really is not fair if they are to lead as “normal” a life as
children can, when they and their sister were abandoned by their parents 5
nights on the trot in a holiday apartment, their sister disappearing, never to
be found, their parent’s globe-trotting, giving interviews speaking about how
they the twins will find Madeleine.
These are the same stories we heard from McCanns
when the twins were but toddlers. Not so
sure at 8 years old they are obsessed with finding the sister they never got to
know. And if they are, that is quite
sad for these kids.
They have lives to be lived. Madeleine did too. She no longer does, not the life she should
have been living, but that does not mean that the twins should have to live
their lives in her shadow, or indeed, live Madeleine’s life for her. Or rather for their parents!
The McCanns speak of their twins as though the twins
think the same thoughts about Madeleine, as though one. Perhaps they do. But they are not one, but two persons. They will not grow up thinking the same
thoughts be it about Madeleine or anything else.
Perhaps the McCanns should stop and think of how
Sean and Amelie will feel when they are older reading what their parents have
said about them.
Gerry McCann said he doesn’t want them to feel
overprotected –Not a chance in hell of that happening.
The parents, constantly feeding the press
stories about these twin children, show how adamant McCann is on that count!
How terribly sad for Madeleine!
Had I not heard for myself Kate McCann say these
words, I would never have believed any loving parent would not have searched
for their missing child, and certainly not because they were too busy with
other things... Nothing could have been more important than the child, finding
her quickly.
She may have been hidden somewhere, alone afraid
just waiting for mummy and daddy to come find her…She may have exited that
apartment, become trapped somewhere…yet they didn’t bother to go out and rip
that town apart in search of her…
Kate McCann said the first 48 hours were incredibly
difficult for her and her husband…
How difficult were they for Madeleine? And if the child is alive how difficult are
times for her now?
Her parents have adapted to life without her, life
is pretty normal now said her dad.
For Madeleine if alive, she too will have adapted
to her ‘new life’ but there won’t be a thing about it that can be described as
‘pretty normal’ Living with a
paedophile can never be described as that.
One has to wonder – did the McCanns not search –
because they knew she would not be found alive?
And, if, as some believe they know where she was
taken and left, had they searched would they naturally have been drawn to that
place? Or rather would Kate McCann as
Madeleine’s mother have been drawn to that place - something, if they are
responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance, Gerry could not let happen?
Was it a case of Kate McCann not
being allowed to “search” rather than her not
wanting to search/being too busy to search?
Kate McCanns wrists after Madeleine’s disappearance
were bruised, clearly visible in photographs, marks as though she had been
restrained in some way. The story is
that she punched walls on the night Madeleine vanished. But does punching walls result in the type of
‘injury’ to her wrists seen in the photographs?
How could the McCanns have been so sure Madeleine was abducted, so sure she
would not soon be found close by?
How could they be so sure, that none of their
holiday companions, not good friends but acquaintances, had not harmed their
daughter – Perhaps because the patio door was not unlocked, and none of them at
any time checked on the McCann children?
We now know too, that the window was not forced
open as was the story the McCanns fed the press, their friends and family back
home in the UK – So no abductor, intruder breaking into that apartment!
So where does that leave this story? – Right back
at the McCanns door it would seem….but which door?
Until the police unravel the McCanns ever changing
story of the night the child was reported as missing, until they and their
holiday companions come clean on this count Andy Redwood of the Metropolitan
Police can interview every paedophile who ever breathed air in PDL in Portugal,
and it will take him nowhere, as the answer lies not with paedophiles, dead or
alive, of any and every nationality, but with the McCanns themselves, and of
course their companions.
Common sense tells us this.
That does not necessarily mean they physically
harmed Madeleine – but their silence as to the truth of
that night has harmed this little
girl for sure - and as to why no one
appears to be interested in getting to the bottom of the ever changing stories
by way of a reconstruction of the events of that night is a bit of a mystery.
As Goncalo Amaral said, if this case was re-opened
by the Portuguese authorities, the reconstruction of events which the McCanns
and their companions refused to take part – would be top of the agenda!
How relieved they must be that the case has not
been re-opened.
An investigation by the Metropolitan Police – not
quite the same as the re-opening of the case in Portugal - which would lead to
a reconstruction, which they so obviously fear...
l-azzeri-lies-in-the-sun.com
8th September 2013