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.

lets all pray for maddys return poor poor child,it leaves you sick to your stomach,and her family,her mother looks dreadful,i want to cry everytime i see her clutching that teddy.Please god keep little Maddy safe in your care,and let her be reunited with her parents very very soon,we pray that no harm will come to her,and also pray for her parents,that they have the strength from you,to carry on through these dark days with prayers of hope that this ends with a happy conclusion,Amen.

Yes, I'm sure there are others too.

Quietmouse although your feelings about this are very strong,it is not the right time or place to be talking about this we should be thinking of Maddy and her family and sending postive thoughts that she is found quickly.imho

I saw one on another parenting board, on a very well-known site, that was completely judgemental to a truly horrible degree, and made anything on here pale in comparison.

I agree completely. I have just been very upset by some of the comments I have seen even this morning.

Sorry.

Erm quietmouse hasn't done anything wrong, she has been sayong that these discussions are innapropriate for ages.

I think that comments over the parenting style of the McCanns is best left until we hear that Maddie is safe and well.

i doubt there is a person alve that blames the McCanns more than the McCanns!

they really dont need teh judgments of strangers to dig their own black hole any deeper.

As i tried to explain on a different thread, yes it is unlikely that they will be looking on internet forums at themoment. but the trouble with the WWW is that thing dont just go away, they get archived and stored for months or years later.

they type in their daughters name and threads saying how terrible their parenting skills were or how they were irresponsible.

Until you have sat their worried sick about where your child is and knowing the awfull truth is that she is most likely with someone vile you have absolutly no right to pass judgements on others

no need to be sorry we are all upset,it is a terrible thing to have happened and as mothers we all tend to vent in different ways,as different personalities join one hugge thread tere vwas bound to be controversy.

The way this thread is going it will reach 1000 posts soon and disappear anyway.

nm i didnt say that she had, i just think the right and wrong should be left now,and not keep rearing its very ugly head not wanting to cause offence.

Just wanted to add to the debate of the thread pulling - do you honestly think those poor parents would have the time or energy after what they have been through, to come onto the internet on a chat site and check threads relating to their horrific ordeal? I really think they will have other things on their mind. No one has said anything really offensive have they? -that I have seen- just questioning parenting choices. Let's be sensible about it, this is a forum of opinion, that's the point of MN.

I didn't realise that there are posters here who were there at the time, but I guess it's not that surprising given how many thousands of parents use MN. Someone said that as far as they knew, the McCanns did have a baby monitor with them, why on earth was that not made known in the news? Perhaps then, people wouldn't be so quick to 'judge'? If they did have a monitor with them, how come they didn't hear any noise/disturbance when the room was broken into? I'm not speculating (neither was I in my first post on this thread - just giving an opinion.) Just trying to make sense of it all in my head.

Perhaps we should all stop posting on here, enough has been said already, and just watch news reports for any developments.

I thougth that, LaBoheme. Coming on MN now or after this will be the last thing on their minds.

i have said it a thousand times already but i will repeat yet again.

no these people probably wont be looking...RIGHT NOW.

but in time to come when they are feling down they could very easily type their daughters name into a search engine and be faced with comments effectivly blaming them for her disapearance.

Having spoken to Sara Payne i KNOW this to be the case and i know how devestated she was by the comments made.

thanks - I think my comment was meant to go on the other thread where lots of people were making vile assumptions.

Can everyone just try to leave their speculation off here? and lets all hope and pray for good news soon.

Whatever views that posters have about the situation, without exception they are all praying for this little girls safe return.So although peoples opinions differ so much they are all united in waiting to hear some good news.

Exactly, mummylin. as I said earlier, I don't think anyone should be jumping on anyone, we're all going to have an individual opinion, but at the same time, we all want the same outcome - Maddie back safe.

I haven't posted on this thread so far but I also have a 4 year old, blonde haired, blue eyed Madeleine and I haven't been able to stop touching her since I heard about this. I can't imagine what is going through her mother's head at the moment - just the thought of my child God knows where, with God knows whom...it makes me sick just thinking about it. When our children are hurt our instinct is to comfort them - how awful must it be not to be able to do that? I am sure that everyone on this thread feels like this and that even the more negative comments come from a gut reaction because we know at heart that ultimately there is nothing we can do to protect our children from everything and it is terrifying. I wish the family all the best and hope and pray that they get their Maddy back soon, safe and sound.

Last night I woke for my LOs night feed and couldn't get back to sleep for thinking about where Maddy was right at that moment and if she was safe and how she was feeling, this is truly awful, I just hope to God she is alive, whatever has happened to her I just hope she is still alive.

does anyone know if there have been any developments this morning? i hope to god they find her alive and well. i know people always assume the worst in cases like this, but does anyone remember that little girl who got taken from her home last year? cardiff i think it was. she was found alive, so let's all have hope and stop arguing over whether they were right or wrong.

someone who was has said afatk they had a baby monitor aswell. tbh honest i thought checking every half hour was adequate but if they had a monitor aswell i don't know what people are moaning about. its just one of those horrible horrible things that you never expect to happen to you.

i wondered why they didn't hear whoever it was breaking in, but maybe it stopped working and they didn't realise, or one of the children had messed with it and turned it off? who knows. its all speculation. if this person was a MNer who we all knew we would be rallying round and giving all our support. for all we know she is. we all know how supportive this community can be so lets show it ay?

It's the first thing I do in the morning - check the news in the hope that she has been found alive and well and the last thing I do at night is say a little prayer for her safe return.

I keep looking for updates and hoping to hear some good news soon. I read that clothes and fingerprints found in the bedroom are being analysed in Lisbon, I hope it gives them something to go on.

I keep thinking of the Abbie Humphries case, she was missing for 15 days before they found her. I know she was a newborn baby but it gives you hope that there may be a positive outcome with this case. I hope so anyway.

I wonder if the family have thought about calling in a psychic for help, I mean anythings worth a go.

I thought about a physic too but didnt mention it for fear of being shot down. The MNer who did our tarot readings recently was very good too...