Ok, here you go. From the very first 'it's not all about them' dig through all the informed and rational posts about Connie giving them a 'weird feeling' and 'being a little off' in a way they just 'can't put their finger on' or Connie's accessorising or facial expressions being inappropriate for a distressed mother.
Oh, although I have left out all the randomers making diagnoses of liver/kidney failure/oedema from looking at photographs.
Sorry, it's not brief. But that's because there are so many nasty comments. These are just the worst:
They even want to dictate how they say goodbye to him and to create "memories" before they let him go. Its all about them and their vision of how things should be.
Its clear from the DMs that some MNers have received from Connie Yates that the parents have now completely lost touch with reality.
His final days have been turned into a fucking circus
a child's needs are indeed going to be thrown under the bus in the name of adult politics, media popularity and gooey, ignorant sentimentalism.
the parents obsessive and damaging behaviour.
the article today saying the parents are banned from the doctors meeting with a whole Daily Fail sad face photo... if they have a publicist they really need to fire them.
The parents' motivations for stringing this out are getting more and more murky by the day...
So when the family released this image of themselves, it was sold to a Sell Your Story page? Wow. I have no words. It makes the casual sunglasses on the head pose seem even more distasteful.
I had all sympathy for the parents, but I'm really starting to question their motivations now. The carefully released images, merchandise, it's just sick now. They are using a tragic situation for publicity.
but there is no shadow of doubt that both the parents and publicist are making money from this
These photos of the parents aren't appearing by mistake though, they are still actively courting the gutter press
I think the parents have completely abused the extra time they had to say goodbye 'in private'.
I think they are trying to manipulate the situation and as usual it's the little boy who's suffering
I hope to Christ, that if this treatment is allowed to go ahead, that Chris Gard and Connie Yates don't have the temerity to force GOSH Doctors and Nurses to keep Charlie as a patient after it. That would be absolutely grabbing and utterly without conscience.
Free Lawyers, free paid press coverage, selling family photos, 2million in the bank, treatment offered free, but still the drive to buy Charlie merchandise from his family shop rages on...Charlie's best interests ceased to be the priority in this months ago.
It's all made up media bollocks. But then there's the picture of his parents in a church, candle lit, behind an alter conveniently engraved with "suffer little children to come unto me".
The last place I would be now is on the sofa of GMB rather than at the beside of my child.
Because the little boy needs to die with some dignity, his suffering needs to end, his parents are selfish and doing whats in their best interests, nobody elses.
So, have neither parent been with Charlie all morning?
Connie this morning: We are not bad parents, we are there for him all the time, we are completely devoted to him and he's not in pain and suffering" Not this morning you weren't. And yes, he is suffering.
I think I am entitled to call them selfish all I like.
I just don't understand all the 'posing' the parents seem to do. I've never seen that from any parent in any of the intensive care places I have even with my child.
He is now being photographed with stage props to further the agenda. Poor, poor boy.
'Charlie's parents, especially the mother, are indescribably selfish.'
The parents' snake-oil nonsense is what has caused this
we hav animals we let them go when thrs no hope- why cant thy see what theyre doing is for themselves not their son
Donut it shocked me. Music blaring and the parents talking into the camera. A really personal, special and rare experience paraded for all to see. That poor child is just a side show
DonutCone, needing more time for precious memories??? or more time to di television interveiws, write to all sorts of folks? have a facebook funding site as well as the rest??? wheres the memories in all that?
I dont think they are like us . I mean the MN demographic . They are differently educated and differently wired . As are many people.
It's almost like Charlie is being paraded by the press and the parents are on a power trip
Charlie's parents are now at a ridiculous point. Its bordering neglectful. They need to shop this attention seeking medua courting
Connie clearly believes Charlie is going to get "his chance" (whatever she perceives that to be) or she wouldn't be spending so much time away from him, in what could be his last few days, courting the media.
I trust a mothers instinct but I really think something is very off with Connie.
The fucking circus going on in that paediatric ICU is abhorrent. Posing for photos left, right and centre. Using that poor baby as a prop with passports and wearing an American flag style babygro
They've also suggested that the family put cameras and recorders in charlie's room and called GOSH 'nothing more than servants'
I am beggining to wonder if this is more about his parents fame and fortune than it is about the poor child.
How can any parent smile into a camera lens standing over their child like that?
I suspect the parents are liking the attention a little to much now. I admit I don't like them, I mean the mum is forever smiling and posing with this poorly baby who should be in heaven now.
Hard to tell how much when the mother's PayPal details are being given out for direct donations. It's horrible they're profiting from his illness.
What would possess a parent to smile in that sort of a photo?
It makes me even more suspicious of the parents motives for stringing this whole thing on...Y'know, just the sort of person you would use if you wanted to raise awareness of a serious disease and not because you wanted to make a quick buck selling your misery story...
his parents are looking at the camera and not at their poor child! Charlie is there as a prop.
but why is he their prop? for what. finacial gain?...Or is it for them to be in the limelight??? to be rich and famous?
TheFairyCaravan, would you not want to spend every second with your dying child? as opposed to protesting? what do they think they are going to acheive? its bloody cruel what they are doing
The posing - even with sunglasses on head - is very unwise and quite unbelievable.
The sunglasses on head made me think he was probably having a timeout in the hospital gardens just beforehand, but then got a call saying, "Come back inside, they need a photo of us together standing over Charlie for the Daily Express".
I remember a case in the past where the parents fought for the right of their child to be treated, eventually...they swanned off to start a new family...Charlie's parents will likely do the same IF he is even capable of living without machinery. He wont stay this size forever
The above quote is edited but in it's full form basically says that Charlie's parent's will 'swan off' to have another baby at which point they will dump Charlie when they have another child and he's not a cute baby they can care for easily any more.
That's the first thread and a half and I really do need to go to bed now. Might carry on with the rest tomorrow but from reading it, it's more accusations of fame and money seeking and vague accusations of there being 'something not right' about the parents.
Anyway. Enjoy waving around your pitchforks criticising the clothing and accessories and facial expressions of a family going through a horrible time.
Personally I think that's far more morally dubious than having sunglasses on your head in an ICU.