A letter to the parents of Madeleine McCann...

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From Esther Rantzen.

What do you think?

Whilst I do see the point she is raising I think this type of journalism (if you can call it that?) is unnecessary, like much of the Daily Mail I suppose.

still fuming, fucking addled old bitch

REALLY hope this backfires a la Jan Moir

What a horrible, patronising, self serving article.
Telling Kate McCan to 'move on' and then mentioning 2 mothers that didn't. It doesn't even make fucking sense.

Anyone who votes for her after that pile of drivel shoudl eb ashamed of themselves.

Couldn't read it, there's no way that she would have said that to their faces, I can imaigne what she would have got if she did!

what needs to happen is for someone to tweet that article to someone famous who has gazillions of followers like happened with the jan moir article.

How exactly is one supposed to "move on" from losing a child? Stupid woman.

None of Esther Rantzen's business, and she should have resisted temptation to publish this letter in the national press.

What Pag said

as usual

particualrly liked hte 'I know what yo0ur worst fears must be but let me spell them out in excruciating details anyway' part

niiiice

Oh Esther.

I can't imagine Kates pain. Perhaps for a miniscule second each day, before she properly wakes up Kate feels normal, safe, happy. And then the awful realisation that life never will be normal, safe, happy.

How can it be when your child is missing?

I think Esther needs to apologise, and donate the money from the article to the NSPCC or another childrens charity.

What a patronising, self-important piece of "journalism"!!

Why and how has she decided it is her place to tell parents of a missing child they ought to move on! On her say so!

I mean really! "Even now, the questions remain. Could she still be alive? Worst of all, is she the prisoner of some twisted individual?" What made her think she can write a public letter to grieving desperate parents who sill must live in some sort of hope, and write that! It may well cross their minds, but do they need it written down in black and white, then told to get over it!

If she really truly cared, she would have written a private letter. Making it public, is wrong, and makes me think she has done it for purely self serving reasons!

I keep thinking about this piece of shite and I can honestly think of no good reason why anyone would have written and published this rubbish , BUT for someone who is supposed to be this caring sharing concerned individual ..... it just beggars belief .

I have lost a child , obviously not in similar circumstances but if someone had tried to tell me 3 yrs down the line that I should be moving on I think I may well have thump[ed them one and I have never thumped anyone in my life . I was still a bloody fruitcake at that stage and that was with a post mortem and funeral and knowing exactly what had happened . I don't know how these two parents even manage to get up in the morning and face a day never mind trying to "move" on (whatever the buggery hell that means anyway)

Esther Rantzen for example is a TWAT .

Never write anything you couldn't say to someone's face. Either in journalism, opinion or even writing on forums on the internet.

If Ms Rantzen could say that nasty drivel to the McCann's faces, she is truly disturbed.

Maybe she doesn't believe the abduction fairy tale and neither do I.Sniffer dogs Eddie and Keela, never been wrong before and solved over 200 cases both react at the same spot behind the sofa meaning blood and cadaver scents were found in exactly the same spot.Dogs have no agenda, they don't lie ,people do.

What DarrellRivers said. Astounding.

I used to admire and like ER,and she has undoubtedly done a lot of good in her time, but her letter is shocking on so many levels

perhaps she is going a bit senile?

I read the article who the fuck does she think she is, the nations agony aunt?!
There is no need to do such a thing it only strokes her own ego if she was keen to help she could have got in touch personally but oh no she need to do it via the papers.

peedoff, maybe, but that doesnt explain the editor's decision to print it!

I wouldn't tell them to "move on" but I do wonder what counselling they've had, and if they've had enough and has it been good enough..

Before somebody misunderstands me and accuses me of thinking that counselling can erase the pain, I'm not saying that. I am saying that I think they are putting a brake on moving through the stages of grief. Would it not be fair to say that they have stalled a bit now. I think if they could accept that she is dead and that it is pointless to launch any more searches, appeals and campaigns and try and channel that energy into parenting their twins, they'd be better off eventually.

I would imagine they're putting a brake on their grief because they don't know she;s dead. I imagione that would really hinder the grieving process

I really wish there could be some way to get ER publicly vilified for this . HOW???

I cant explain why but this this has really angered me

any ideas?

Fucking hell thats unbelievable

nobody knows how Kate McCann feels, but if i were in her shoes i would spend the rest of my life searching, i would never give up

They are living in some kind of limbo at the moment , there is no "stages of grief" when you don't even know where your child is .

Basically them talking about their child is making ER uncomfortable and she wants them to fit neatly into a little box and move on and not be a bother to her any more .

Well tough shite .

There are stages of grief though.

They don't make me uncomfortable. I pity them. If they were my family, I would really want them to eventually accept not just her disappearance but her death. I'll be flamed for this but of course Madeleine is dead. Refusing to believe that is holding the wound open for years and years. It never even begins to heal.