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Suspected child killers allowed to address European Parliament

By John Hirst

Suspected child killers allowed to address European Parliament

"Kate and Gerry McCann will address MEPs in Brussels tomorrow to call for a European-wide missing child alert system as the friends on holiday with them in Portugal when Madeleine disappeared continue to be questioned by police".

I am pro-European, but I question the decision from Brussels which has allowed the suspected child killers of Madeleine McCann to address the European Parliament. I would rather see the McCanns address the 40 questions the police wished to ask them before they fled from Portugal. That they are scared to go back to Portugal, for fear of being arrested, speaks volumes. It might be remembered that the McCanns stated that they would not leave Portugal without finding Madeleine.

The Amber Alert system is designed to detect children who have been abducted by strangers. In the McCann case, the Amber Alert system would not have helped Madeleine because her disappearance was arranged by the McCanns themselves. The McCanns are not experts on child safety, quite the opposite. So far they have expertly avoided being prosecuted for the death and subsequent disappearance of Madeleine's body.

In the Shannon case, at least the mother has been charged with child neglect and perverting the course of justice and has been remanded into custody. Like Kate McCann, she knew all along what had happened to her daughter. It is a pity that the police do not stop pussy footing around with the McCanns and deal with them with the same level of investigation used in the Shannon case.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).