new sightings of maddie

[candyfluff]

so what gets my back up so much is that if you saw who you thought was maddeline mc cann why the hell wouldnt you grab her and call police immediatley,im sure her parents are thinking the very same thing!!

[misdee]

is such a sad case.

but having had someone question me over my own dd, and 'oh she is the same age as that little girl who was taken ' errrrrr no, 2years younger and was wearing clothes for a 1year old, was asleep in the buggy, and has black eyes, i would go mad if someone took her just in case it was madeleine. was a very strange experience being probed about my daughter by a stranger.

[ElfOnTheTopShelf]

its catch 22. People were talking about this at work saying "if I thought it was her, I'd grab that child" which makes me think yes, I agree, you wouldn't just let it by, but, as a parent, the idea of somebody grabbing my DD would freak me out.

Sadly I think in 15yrs time, people will possibly still referring to Madeleine, in the way that people refer to Ben Needham.

I wish the papers would STOP though. I think that if the parents see these headlines in their day to day lives, it must be like a dagger to their hearts, especially as they are sensationalist headlines which refer to "old" news on sightings iyswim.

[TheFifthApe]

I don;t think for one moment that her parents are reading these newspapers

do you really think they get them delivered every morning?

they will avoid them like the plague they are and someone else will sift them on their behalf

[ElfOnTheTopShelf]

I dont read the papers but the headlines catch my eyes when I walk past shops / newspaper stands. Hugh headlines screaming "Maddie seen!" - even if they dont read the gutter trash, its sorta hard to avoid sometimes.

[Lucifera]

the other thread was deleted (I started it so got an email to tell me) because it's MN policy to only have one MMcC thread up, fair enough and I guess this one will disappear as soon as they notice it.

[UniversallyChallenged]

oh thanks for letting us know

[kerryk]

bloody hell, i would commit murder if some stranger tried to snatch my 4 y.o dd from me.

when we were on holiday last july (few months after mm went missing) we were also told how dd looks like her, which she does not btw. my own dd has pure blonde hair that nearly reaches her bottom but people see a pretty little girl of the same age and want to believe they can be the one to find mm.