Madeiline McCann coverup

[OakTree500]

I'm not saying they deserve it because the doors were open, it's just fucking common sense. You don't leave you house open at night in areas of high crime. You don't leave your car unlocked with valuables inside on show. I'm saying that they made some terrible decisions, and are paying for it now.

With all due respect, you didn't say they made some terrible decisions which they are paying for now, you called their actions "criminal". That's what I was arguing against.

If I leave my car unlocked and my phone on display, and it gets stolen, am I a criminal? No.
If a girl walks home alone and gets raped, is she a criminal? No.
If parents leave children unattended in a hotel room, with the doors unlocked, and one of the children gets abducted, are they criminals? No.

You are doing some classic victim blaming. There's no law that the McCann's broke. They were the victims of a crime. The question of whether the crime could have been avoided if they had left the doors locked is a valid one, but ultimately the actual criminal intent is with the perpetrator, not the parents.

Wowsers, ok. If you go back, you'll see I said "I've used the word Criminal in a more general sense", which is my mistake, my bad for that. I'm not implying the are criminals for that, just that it's a incredibly stupid thing to do.  

Do they deserve this? No, of course they don't. Are they pillocks of the highest order for leaving 3 small children alone like that? Yes. Again, I'm not saying they should be locked up just for that alone, but more that they made an epic judgement fail. I don't think they should be locked up for it.

Victim blaming would imply I think they deserve or did something that "made somebody do something, so it's their fault", again this is FAR from that, so maybe I'm doing a bad job of using the right words here. I'm just saying, that if they didn't leave their kids alone in an un-guarded and unlocked room, whilst they were off drinking with there friends [a far distance away from their children], this potentially would not have happened.