OMG. Anybody just seen GMTV? 3 yr old girl abducted on holiday on the Algarve.

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kate said reports just in, cant find anything on bbc.

bloody awful.

I haven't got involved in this thread, and I'm not going to make any further posts. I just think it should be wrapped up now. Enough said, and a bit unseemly under the circumstances.

wilkie - agree with you.

think on holiday things can seem safer than home.

I remember something about a child being snatched from a caravan site while her family were asleep in the same caravan on a holiday site.
Somebody has taken that poor little girl for god knows what reason, but from what I have read and heard it would seem they targeted her rather then just seized the chance to grab her.
I think if someone "selected" her then there is a good chance she is being kept somewhere rather then something worse (I can't bring myself to type you know what).

I am praying that she is back with her family soon.

i don't want to read the whole thread but i wondered if there was any news yet?has she been found?

No hasn't been found. They have a suspect "in mind" and believe she is still alive

no, no news as yet

I think this is about the person or persons who planned andcalculated to commit this dreadful act and nothing really to do with the parents.I fainted once outside a supermarket when ds was 3 and I was on my own with him.I was 'out'for about 6 minutes and no harm came to him{thank god} but the opportunity was there but there was no 'bad'person there reasy to pounce.

Just so sickened by this.

My three-year-old (she will be 4 in June) is just now starting to twig about the big, wide world and she sometimes wakes in teh night to make sure her Mummy and Daddy are still there.

She takes frights at the oddest things - puppets, a sprinkler, Dr. Who, etc.

Can't imagine what kind of a sick, twisted FUCK goes and takes a child like that.

I really and truly can't.

But it makes me want to be sick.

yes, my 3 year old is like that. She doesn't like coats hanging on doors or dark marks on walls (where they are about to be painted)

I can't bear to think about it. I feel devastated by this. Really and truly.

In the news :A thread to discuss DEVELOPMENTS regarding Maddie McCann

Talk on here

i sincerley hope they get some news soon how awful to have to think about your baby with someone else, i hope she is well - poor poor girl,

this has totally made me rethink camping alone with my girls this year, it is frightening

Would just like to say that I have returned today from the Ocean Club resort in Praia de Luz after the shocking events of last week. There is a lot I could say in response to some of your comments but what I really want to stress is that while I dont know about Maddie's mum, I DO know that very close friends of the family are MNers as has been speculated upon in this thread. I dont know if that will have any bearing upon what people will and will not post. Even though I was there and my DS was playing most afternoons in a group of kids which included poor Maddie, I still dont know the full story and therefore would not be looking to cast any blame at this point.

OMG Baysmum, how awful for you
I hope you've seen the other thread that hasn't involved the arguing

i think these threads should be pulled.... sorry.

I find this all very, very offensive tbh.

How anyone can feel anything but compassion and sadness for these poor souls is beyond me

Would anyone object strongly to this thread being deleted? Not for oppressive censorship issues but simply because....well I don't know about you lot but this thread being available to the family to read is making me feel seriously uncomfortable. People have had a chance to express their varied views on the situation, but can this thread now be deleted?

I have contacted MNHQ and asked for these threads to be deleted so I am hoping so too. I can't bear the thought of them being read or maybe picked up by the media or something.

Really horrible

I agree. If by any chance the family or friends come here looking for support , I'd hate some of these comments to be the first thing they read on MN. Who knows, perhaps they already have

Sorry but this is so not what MN is normally about. Such debate is fine in its place but not at the expense of compassion for fellow parents surely.

I think the thread should be pulled-so

I agree, get rid of it. It serves no helpful purpose, and could be so hurtful.

no I don't think the threads should be pulled. not only because I think it's wrong to sensor the thoughts of people - and believe me far, far worse have been written on this subject on many other sites and will most likely be published in the media, but if you pull the threads, then not only the comments you wouldn't want the family to see will be gone, but also the comments you would want the family to see.

Personally I think it's highly unlikely they would ever come on to the internet looking for threads about this, and if they ever did, it won't be for a very long time, but imagine if they came on to mn, the top parenting site in the UK, and found no threads, no discussion, good or bad, about what happened to their little girl? what message will that send to them do you think? it sends the message that a group of mums weren't interested enough in their situation to have a discussion about it, because they wouldn't be any the wiser as to the threads having been pulled.

If Mumsnet pulled threads that could cause distress to people who might read it at some point, it would be left with discussions on shopping.

Well said, NFK.

I think the last thing they're doing is going onto parenting sites on the WWW for 'support'.

what reason is there for keeping them? They are disgusting. I can not believe some of you are mothers - seriously.

What reason is there for keeping them? From mumsnet's point of view, it's traffic to their website. And a high number of hits and posts are good for advertising revenue. The same reason the newspapers are following the story. Did you think there was something else going on?

great reason, that is