Quote Originally Posted by Lily View Post
Yes, I do have children, a lot older than two years old.

You don't know that they 'systematically left their children'; why is it 'apparent'. You only know rumour and gossip.
Just some 'rumour and gossip' for you.

Expatriate Pamela Fenn, 81, who lives in the flat above where the McCanns were staying, was re-interviewed by detectives on Monday after it emerged that she might have fresh clues.

Widow Mrs Fenn told police that two nights before Madeleine went missing she heard a little girl in the apartment crying for over an hour.

She heard the woman who she now knows to be Kate crying ‘We have let her down, we have let her down’

She said the toddler, who is believed to have been Madeleine, was crying “Daddy, daddy” constantly between 10.30 and 11.45pm.

The crying had stopped when the parents returned to the apartment.

Daily Express: The World's Greatest Newspaper :: News / Showbiz :: 'We've let Madeleine down'

An article last week in Portugal’s Sol magazine accused the McCanns and the other families in their holiday group of hiding behind a “pact of silence”. It said the McCanns’ friends had constantly altered their version of events and that they were a “very strange group that never stayed with their children”.

The accusations have triggered “high-level informal talks” among CPS lawyers about the conduct of Madeleine’s parents, who are both well-respected doctors.

Senior lawyers are considering whether an offence was committed under the 1933 Young Persons Act, which deals with ill-treatment, cruelty, neglect and abandonment of children under 16.

If charges were brought and the McCanns found guilty, they could face up to two years in jail.

Daily Express: The World's Greatest Newspaper :: News / Showbiz :: Maddy's parents to face inquiry

I am glad your kids have growed safely (and there is NO sarcasm in that remark). So have mine , so much so that not only being able to take care of themselves they have been known to take care of the old da if he is foolish enough to go pint for pint with them.