Would you call on favours from friends and friends of friends if your child went missing?

Question

Would you call on everyone in your extended network of friends, family and acquaintances to see if they could help in any way or would you leave it to the police, even in a foreign country where the laws are not clear to you, to conduct the investigation and publicise the child's appearance??

Answer 1

Of course I would - they would be the first people alongside family that I would turn to.

Answer 2

I don't know ... never been in that situation.

Most likely I would just lie down and die.

Answer 3

I would use everyone I know to find my children, call in all favours and try to get the media and MPs involved especially if they went missing abroad.  

This question obviously refers to the McCanns, my personal opinion is that other than leaving the kids in the first place they have done everything and more to help find Maddy and should be praised for it.  Lets pray that they have a miracle one day and have her return home to them.

Answer 4

If I had a missing child I would do anything to help find her. However there comes a time when one runs out of options. The world is a big place so where do you start looking ? All one has left is hope. Hope that someone somewhere will spot her. And that's all the McCanns have left is hope.

Answer 5

I would do both

Answer 6

If you are referring to the Mccann's, they have used "friends and friends of friends" to purposefully obstruct the discovery of what really happened to their daughter. Which is quite another thing to what you are suggesting. Why would they and their friends not return to Portugal for a reconstruction? Isn't that what ANY concerned and desperate parent would do?

Answer 7

I would let the police do their job as this is what they are trained to do. And I would co-operate with them in any way I can.

I think you can look at the dignified way in which Sara Payne behaved when her daughter was taken and murdered. Her co-operation with the police was key in finding her daughter's killer. She never once got in the way or interferred with the police's questioning or what they were doing. She is a very special person and I have a lot of respect for her. She always knew she had nothing to hide.

Answer 8

Well there is one tiny clanger I would not ask. She/He would really misrepresent my case. Some people are so naive, would you not agree

Tiny clanger-------- Thats where you are wrong

A bit presumptuous I would say on your behalf

   Jumping to conclusions again are we. I did not say a CHILD

Thats another CLANGER you have dropped.

You are very close to being reported

Answer 9

I won't bother answering your question, as it seems you don't appreciate a difference of opinion. We all have a right to an opinion, which does not make us right but I respect honesty, which in life is not always what we want to hear. Feel free to block me if that's what you wish but I will save you the trouble and refrain from answering your questions, as you have purposely picked out and named myself and another user for what? having an opinion? I might not agree with you but have respected your right of opinion and right to express it. Evidently you don't share the same views...

Answer 10

I would call everyone and anyone to help find my child.I would let the police do and speak to whoever and crawl around daily looking for my bairn.

Jogging,however, i would not do.

Answer 11

did she go missing or do their parents know what happened to her

the poor child deserved decent  parents

why go to the trouble of having IVF if your clearly too selfish greedy and pathetic to even care for the children properly

what abductor tiny clanger ? where is there any proof that she dident just wander out of the appartment

edit

block away sweetie i got more thumbs up than thumbs down for my honest answer

block seven too but she will still have the same opinions

Answer 12

Yes.It'a all hands on deck when it's a situation like that.

Answer 13

Of course, they will understand!

Good luck

Answer 14

Yes ~ and one thing the McCann saga has given is a blue print for how to publicise a missing child.

The media campaigns were very good, although obviously unsuccessful to date, they made sure she was known in all 4 corners of the world.

Answer 15

One thing I would do is that I would cooperate fully with whichever police force is searching for my child.

I hope I wouldnt have to "call" on "favours" from my friends I would hope they would volunteer to help to the best of their ability and to cooperate fully.

p.s. topcat1 I agree wholeheartedly with what u have just written and I too respect the Paynes 100% in the way they conducted themselves during that harrowing time.

Answer 16

I would be frantic and I would call on everyone and every search avenue I could and would be out there myself looking for them whether it is logical or not.

To do anything else is outrageous.

Answer 17

I most certainly would many hands might help also the louder you shout about it the better reports you may receive.

But work with experts as well its vital.

In a foreign country I would be yelling the loudest

Answer 18

YES .. obviously any parent would do ANYTHING to try and get their child back ..INCLUDING co-operating with the police of the country that the child went missing in ... its a bit of a no-brainer really!!!

oh and i agree with busybee ... LOL!!! why has she got thumbs down??? ... everything and anything... doesn't really include jogging and tennis does it???

EDIT: can I ask why you would consider blocking anne s and seven?  ???