The McCann's used the fund to pay their mortgage!!!

[kittenta 10]

Or what about a third option:

 

Launch a campaign, raise enough funds to keep the house and have enough money for a search that lasts for 12 months. Wouldn't you choose this option?

 

Even if I kept the house, i'd still opt for selling other possessions, cars, art jewellery, anything! What exactly have the Mc Canns got rid of to help add to the funds? You know, raise funds themselves from their OWN possessions, keep the house and have a search that lasts for 24 months? My point is basically that they should be giving up more than just their time and their jobs. They should be giving up their personal possessions to help add to the fund keeping them afloat and helping to find their daughter. I would rather have nothing left in the world if it helped to find my kids. They don't appear to be willing to give up a thing.

[Rotherhamer 10]

Didnt see a million pound fund set up when Ben Needham went missing mind you his mother didnt have anything anyway seems its OK to fund the people who actually have money but nobody wants to know when the people without money need it more.

[heavenlyarts 10]

Or what about a third option:

 

Launch a campaign, raise enough funds to keep the house and have enough money for a search that lasts for 12 months. Wouldn't you choose this option?

 

 

THe alternative, sell everything, live off the state.

 

I would argue that they have done nothing wrong as long as the decision to fund them has been made by the trustees and with full disclosure.

[F. Sidebottom 10]

If it helped to find my child?? Are you crazy? YES! If they add to the fund instead of taking from it then the money will last longer enabling them to search for their daughter longer. Which would you rather have, to keep your nice big house and enough money for (example) 3 months searching or a nice but smaller house and enough money for 6 months searching? I know which I would choose!

 

What a ridiculous argument.

 

Where have you found these 3 and 6 months figures from? Or are you quoting totally hyperthetically, based on absolutely no facts, and therefore presenting a meaningless argument.

 

The Mcanns have two other children to maintain. Should they sell all their clothes too in a search for Maddie, even though there is enough in the fund to support all that is being done?

 

They are still actively searching for her. The only thing they could do more is get even more exposure, and in doing so face even more backlash from critics.

 

If you don't like it, why don't you write to the Mcann's and ask for your donation back.

 

(how much was it by the way?)

[kittenta 10]

THe deeds behind the charity allow for hardship payments to them.

 

I do not have a problem with this.

 

THey also quite rightly stopped taking any money when they where labelled suspects.

 

The problem is that there are ways they could have helped raise money themselves without going back to work.

[F. Sidebottom 10]

Didnt see a million pound fund set up when Ben Needham went missing mind you his mother didnt have anything anyway seems its OK to fund the people who actually have money but nobody wants to know when the people without money need it more.

 

Ahh, you poor little lost soul. Does everybody pick on you?

 

Straight from the 'let's tax the rich to death because they've got more money' pool of thinking.

[MartynB 10]

I've always been suspicious of the whole story. However, when it comes to the fund, let's assume "innocent until proven guilty" which we are all entitled to and look at it purely as use of the fund (although wtf were they thinking leaving kids of that age alone?)

 

Both parents have been off work now for over six months. I don't know how much their mortgage is but when people look at others who are "middle-class" they forget that some of these people might have nice cars, nice house etc but for all you know, these things could be so financed to the hilt that they have less disposable income than people with a lot less.

 

Now, of course, they could downsize their house, spend time moving instead of looking for their daughter, tear the kids out of their familiar surroundings at a time when they most need security and move them to a strange place and mess them up psychologically even further. Or, they could use some of the fund to make a few mortgage payments, leaving them something less to worry about while they concentrate on finding their daughter!

 

If they were paying all their bills from the fund and sitting on their backsides doing nothing then I could see why everyone would be ****** off about them using some of the money to pay the mortgage, but they aren't are they? They've launched a 24 hour hotline staffed by Private Investigators who specialise in finding missing children with the investigation leading them to Morocco - how much money do you think this cost? How much does it cost to have zero income for six months+ when you have financial commitments? I have a policy which pays my mortgage if I'm off sick or made redundant - there isn't a clause in there that says it will pay up if I spent six months looking for a missing child! How much of their own money did they use up before the fund was set up / before it started mounting up?

 

Of course, if they were on benefits with their council house paid by other people and sat on their arses for their whole life as many do, that would be ok wouldn't it. Let's face it, we ALL pay into THAT fund, we have no choice!

[cosywolf 10]

Those people who want them to sell their house and cars and all their other stuff before using the fund set up...

 

Have you sold a house recently? Are they better doing all they can to find their daughter, or organising to sell their house, readying it for viewers, paying out fees, looking at new mortgages, packing, and searching for a new home?

 

Are the remaining children going to benefit from losing everything familiar to them while their parents efforts are involved in searching/grieving for their sister?

 

I do not really see the problem with them using the fund to pay a couple of mortgage payments, because I can imagine A) how unspeakably horrible it would be to lose my child and B) how easy it would be to forget about dealing with all the mundanities of normal life while I searched and searched and grieved my heart out for that child and C) what a lifeline it would be if I was to have access to something that would help keep things going while I looked, particularly for my other children and some attempt at normality for them.

 

Do not put me in the I love the McCanns camp - I still think they behaved completely irresponsibly leaving their children the way they did.

However, where the question is should a family in their situation be able to use a fund set up to support their efforts in finding their child use that fund to pay mortgage payments - I think yes, it is completely reasonable.

[kittenta 10]

Where have you found these 3 and 6 months figures from?

 

Note where i put (EXAMPLE) I did not state that it was fact, read properly.

 

The Mcanns have two other children to maintain. Should they sell all their clothes too in a search for Maddie, even though there is enough in the fund to support all that is being done?

 

Yes they do have two other children to take care of, where did I say that they should sell their clothes? So FOR EXAMPLE those two children would be suffereing so much if a few pieces of jewellery went from mummys box, or a painting went missing off a wall, or they got taken out in an older car? THESE ARE EXAMPLES. these types of things would not affect the two children in any way at all yet it would allow the Mc Canns to add to the fund or pay more of the morgage themselves leaving more money in the fund to use for looking for maddie.

 

 

They are still actively searching for her. The only thing they could do more is get even more exposure, and in doing so face even more backlash from critics.

 

Ok, i'm sorry, I missed the bit where I said they weren't still searching?? It works the same in other situations, if people are willing to get off their backside and help themselves them people are more willing to give them the ladder to climb up. However, if you sit there waiting for other people to it for you you'll have a long wait for that ladder!

 

Imagine the reaction if it came on the news that the Mc Canns were having an auction of some of their belongings (AGAIN FOR EXAMPLE) THAT WOULDN'T AFFECT THE CHILDREN to raise money for the funds, they would be congratulated, gain more respect from people and many more people would be willing to help them out. How is that a ridiculous argument??

 

(how much was it by the way?)

 

When that becomes any of your business, i'll let you know.

[Rotherhamer 10]

Ahh, you poor little lost soul. Does everybody pick on you?

 

Straight from the 'let's tax the rich to death because they've got more money' pool of thinking.

I'll treat that reply with the contempt it deserves,rich or poor Ben Needham and his family deserved a little more compassion and help than they actually got.What makes the Mc Canns more important than the Needhams,its obvious really if you got off your soap box and thought about it...they are more marketable

[kittenta 10]

Those people who want them to sell their house and cars and all their other stuff before using the fund set up...

 

The house is a last resort but a car??? An auction?? Many people go and get a new car in one day. If they had an auction they wouldn't even have to do it, all they'd have to do is choose what to auction. I have never said that they shouldn't use any of the fund to help them financially, just that they should be seen to be helping themselves too!

[heavenlyarts 10]

just that they should be seen to be helping themselves too!

 

We don't know that they're not... and as it's not good press the red tops are unlikely to feature it in their articles.