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Because they weren't supervising their children and failed to make any arrangements for their care and well-being, Madeleine is probably dead or suffering on-going physical and/or sexual abuse. That's the harsh reality of her probable fate and it's so unfair because her parents surely had the money to pay a baby-sitter.

I wonder why the article title asks if we can think the unthinkable, because in our time, anything is possible. I recall a young mother who drowned her 5 children in a bathtub in Texas, then there was the woman who left her two young boys strapped in their

car seats before sinking the car in a pond and she did that to avoid giving them to their dad, yet to still have the freedom to date a guy who didn't want kids, in other words she was utterly selfish.

The McCanns live in Britain and in the time that I've lived in this Country, I've come to understand that many of the well-to-do people over here are in the habit of allowing other people to raise their kids, in fact, it's common to send children away to live at school as young as 8-years-old. I think this practice, which has a long history in Britain, goes a long way to explaining the emotional coolness and detachment that seems to exist between parents and youth in this Country.

A selfish desire to seek and find self-gratification despite the needs of anyone else, including one's children could explain how and why the McCann's just walked away from 2 infants and a 3-year-old to have a good time with their friends. It's not to say that wealthy British people don't love or care about their children, because that would be an unfair and inaccurate assessment, it's just that there seems that the well-to-do have too many other Things To Do, then look after their children properly, especially when the needs of their children conflict with their personal desires.

Maybe Americans are more intense about this because it's always been more dangerous in the States than it has been in Britan as a whole. Especially for the weak and defenseless. I saw the McCann's in an interview once and for some reason, I felt that they were holding some information back, but I couldn't quite place my finger on what was missing, but something wasn't quite right about that interview...

Whatever the reason, I don't think they murdered their daughter nor do I believe they had a chance to recover Madeleine's body and get rid of it after the fact, because they were under intense media scrutiny and someone, somewhere would have seen something. So, the McCann's didn't actually kill their child, they just made it much too easy for someone else to do it.

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