Has it been established that they drugged daughter so she would sleep or is that speculaton? I still have questions why any parent would leave 3 babies for ANY amount of time to go eat-especially in a foreign country. As a mom I would NEVER have left babies for 1/2 hr or whatever they said. That fact alone makes me a bit suspicious. Anyone else?
I have raised kids and remember when they were four years old.
A four year old (Madeleine was two weeks shy of her fourth birthday) can open doors. She can open zippers and bottles. She can turn on running water. She can climb on top of furniture and fall off of it. She can get herself into a ton of mischief if she is not supervised.
Would a responsible parent leave a four year old unattended in a hotel room with her two two-year-old siblings with the door unlocked for two hours?
Unlikely.
The McCanns seemed quite confident that they could leave her there for hours two blocks away and just check in on her from time to time.
That's not rational.
A look at the layout shows that the hotel room was a short walk from and in clear sight of a swimming pool - a swimming pool the children had likely played in that week.
All that would be necessary for total disaster would be for the four year old to open the door - and her two siblings could walk right into the swimming pool and drown.
That could have happened in a two minute span.
The parents were both doctors and they were both supremely confident that their four year old would cause no trouble - why?
Perhaps because they slipped her what they believed to be a child-sized dose of sleeping pill to put her out so they could enjoy the evening.
As I pointed out on another thread, a friend who is a doctor told me that it isn't uncommon for doctors to prescribe medicine for their children rather than take a day off to see a pediatrician - and this sometimes causes problems for doctors who aren't pediatricians.
I think it is quite plausible that the McCanns mistakenly gave their daughter an OD, and then covered it up - because if they had been exposed they would have gone to jail, lost custody of their other children and lost their medical licenses.
Another possibility is that Madeleine was in the room horsing around and fell off a bureau or entertainment center or some other piece of furniture and fatally injured herself.
“As a mom I would NEVER have left babies for 1/2 hr or whatever they said. That fact alone makes me a bit suspicious. Anyone else?”
They were in a resort that they thought was safe and that they had been to before. Where they were eating was 100 yards from their villa where the children were. That’s about the distance of a medium sized backyard. They were close. Two of the dinner attendees in their party (mostly other doctors) went to check on the kids. One of the dinner guests thought she saw a man carrying a small child. Could have been the real perpetrator that she saw.
How many of you have gone out in your backyards while your children were asleep in your homes, hmmmm? I would bet plenty of you. You can be sleeping in another room and someone can come in a window and swipe your kid. That’s what happened to the little girl that was buried alive down in Florida, Mark’s little girl Jessica Lunsford. Her grandparents were asleep and the perp came in through a window and led Jessica out through the front door without the grandparents waking up. It can happen to anyone. No parent is tatooed to their children’s side every single minute of the day. Give these parents a break. They must feel terrible and their punishment, if you must have one, is that their child is gone, and who knows what has happened to her if she is still alive.
Meanwhile, the Portuguese police are a joke, and are vicious to boot by trying (with a new ridiculous theory a day) to pin this on the parents to cover up their own incompetence. They wanted the McCann’s out of their country and they have succeeded. So the McCann’s get it in the jugular twice, now by being falsely accused by a bunch of Inspector Clousseau’s. And to think there are those out there who can’t figure this out. What is that old phrase, a sucker is born every day.
I thought I heard/read that the McCanns admitted to having giving some kind of sleeping drug. Perhaps it was on Greta’s show. Anyway, she did have a ‘timeline’ of sorts. Interestingly, I recall that the dinner party was with other vacationing UK doctors, some of whom also left their children to go to dinner. AND, one of the them, a male doctor and I can’t remember his name, was either sent or volunteered to go and check on the McCann children. It is unknown whether or not he entered the room or just listened at the door.