Keith, what I meant is this,
As parents we all do our very, very best. Nobody deliberately puts their children in danger. Times have changed. We once lived in a house with a very long garden, we would often sit midway down it in the summer evenings with friends, 'watching the house' feeling that our children were safe in their beds. It wasn't until this tragedy that we realised what could have happened. We would not have heard or seen someone slipping in a front/side window of the house (even if we were in our lounge) It scares me and I still feel for them, it must be tortuous. I don't think there's much hope now for Madelaine but these abductions must be stopped. So sad.