Its Not The Point That Her Mum And Dad Left Her Alone While They Were Out Or That People Shudnt Give Them Money Or Anything Else You's Want 2 Pick At.Its The Fact That Madeline Is Missing In A Foregin Country With People That She Doesn't Know And An Area Shes Not Used 2 Shes Only 4 Years Of Age If People Are Willing To Donate Money Then Why Not? If It Helps Bring Her Back Thats The Main Thing!!

you are right! If they find her alive, she should not be returned to the family without a great deal of intervention. However, we all know sadly enough that the parental rights outweigh reason at times. The best we can do is to hope and pray for her safe return at this point. Maybe the parents will have learned their lesson that being selfish is no way for a parent of young children to be.

AMEN sister! Let's all try not to be ugly. Obviously there are some very passionate people in the viewing audience!! They should all try to practice a little restraint...calling people idiots and mocking others' backgrounds does not bring back a child-which by the way, was the point of this entire blog.

The parents leaving the children alone was very wrong, as was shown by the tragic results, but the important thing now is hopefully finding the little one safe and sound. The finger pointing can start once she has been found.

Anon11:34, they should be held accountable. No GOOD parent leaves their child alone under ANY circumstance. If English kids are in danger in Spain & Portugal, then why did they go there and then leave them alone?! Stop making excuses for stupid rich people.

Parents fault. they should go to jail. Why in the world would they leave a 4 year old and 2 two year olds alone in a hotel in a country that they are just visting? Hate to say it but they had it coming. and what makes this little girl so much more special then the other thousands of missing kids. No celebrities shell out lots of dough for them. what makes her so special?

11:52,I don´t know if you are native american or not,i don´t see you trought the monitor,do you see me!?i guess since u decided i was a brit:)))And still you have no idea about the history of the US,or geography,history,or Europe!!!
You are just silly and dumb,not everyone has a high IQ,sorry to be the one who broke you the news:))!
So,lets get back to the begining of the argument,when i wrote my first post i was adressing it to a person who used the nickname "happy not to be europian",so i strated writing that EUROPE IS A CONTINENT NOT A COUNTRY,and UK is not Europe! and so on and so on and the moral of the whole thing was that u can´t make a general conclusions about a continent and contries from one story,but it´s ok you just proved being really ignorant and stupid,uneducated and shallow people,atleast the few who wrote some nonsense:)),no clever person will try to say that the US is older than Europe!!And by the way,how come in the US you can buy gun at the age of 18 and can´t drink till your 21!?Something to say about your gun issues in the States!?Wasn´t it 2-3 weeks ago the tragedy in the University of Virginia!?Talk now hypocrats!!!

I am english, live in london, and have been following this story from day one. The parents left the children in their apartment, and dined in a restaurant within wviewing distance of the apartment, and checked every half hour. They have paid a lot for an expensive safe family resort, and did not expect anything to happen. They checked on the children every half hour. It is an awful tragedy, and sadly fair british children are under threat of kidnapping in portugal, spain etc, because the stand out so much. leave the parents (who are both doctors, and the children all concieved by IVF) alone.

9:11 You see you prove my point!!!
I am not from the UK not even close:) But of course for the retards which think Paris is in London,Europe probably is equal to UK=France=Portugal=Spain and etc.all the rest of nations inhibiting the THE OLDEST CONTINENT,please open a book or something,gossip about hollywood will not educate you,the USA is no more than 300 years old,it has been some arguments that Erikur the Red came first to North America in the 12th century.And you don´t even have a language but speak the one from the people who colonized your land:)),the brits!Shame on you not knowing you history!

little bit of facts :

1.After a period of exploration by various European countries, Dutch, Spanish, English, French, Swedish, and Portuguese settlements were established. Columbus was the first European to set foot on what would one day become U.S. territory when he came to Puerto Rico in 1493. In the 15th century, Europeans brought horses, cattle and hogs to the Americas.
2.Spanish exploration and settlement
Spaniards explorers reached the present-day United States. The first confirmed landing in the continental US was by a Spaniard, Juan Ponce de León, who landed in 1513 at a lush shore he christened La Florida.An anachronous map showing areas of the United States and other territories pertaining to the Spanish Empire over a period exceeding 400 years.Within three decades of Ponce de León's landing, the Spanish became the first Europeans to reach the Appalachian Mountains, the Mississippi River, the Grand Canyon and the Great Plains. In 1540, De Soto undertook an extensive exploration of the present US and, in the same year, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado led 2,000 Spaniards and Mexican Indians across today's Arizona-Mexico border and traveled as far as central Kansas. Other Spanish explorers include Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón, Pánfilo de Narváez, Sebastián Vizcaíno, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Gaspar de Portolà, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Tristán de Luna y Arellano and Juan de Oñate.

The Spanish sent some settlers, creating the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565 and later Santa Fe, New Mexico, San Antonio, Tucson, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Most Spanish settlements were along the California coast or the Sante Fe River in New Mexico.
3.The first successful English colony was established in 1607, on the James River at Jamestown. It languished for decades until a new wave of settlers arrived in the late 17th century and set up commercial agriculture based on tobacco. One example of conflict between Native Americans and English settlers was the 1622 Powhatan uprising in Virginia, in which Indians had killed hundreds of English settlers. The largest conflict between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century was King Philip's War in New England.
New England was founded primarily by Puritans who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. The Middle Colonies, consisting of the present-day states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, were characterized by a large degree of diversity. The first attempted English settlement south of Virginia was the Province of Carolina, with Georgia Colony the last of the Thirteen Colonies established in 1733. Several colonies were used as penal settlements from the 1620s until the American Revolution.

4.Formation of the United States of America (1776-1789)

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, still meeting in Philadelphia, declared the independence of a nation called "the United States of America" in the Declaration of Independence, primarily authored by Thomas Jefferson. July 4 is celebrated as the nation's birthday. The new nation was dedicated to principles of republicanism, which emphasized civic duty and a fear of corruption and hereditary aristocracy.

I don´t need to trash you,your ingorance and stupidity is trashing you enough without my help!!!Blame the ones who brainwash you:)))
p.s. I don´t eat either fish or chips:))I cook real food,good food,i don´t even go to JUNK FOOD places,we have a fine cuisine here.And Amsterdam is the capital of Holland,it is not a country:)))

ROFLMAO!!!!!!
kiss my a$$ you know what im talking about!!
puhhhhhhlease! stop trying to act like your just so witty.
you are very unoriginal, your really bad at put downs and yes your retarded.
to come to an AMERICAN MADE MAGAZINE and try to trash americans.LOL LOL LOL LOL
ignorant pig? no im at least smart enough to know that in 1492 columbus sailed the ocean blue, and that you iggnorant pig was deffinatly over 300 years ago.
so miss smarty pants,trying to be all cheeky.
go pick up an american history book and learn something...if i needed to know something about your retatded continent ill just look it up on my p.c.
however i doubt that i would.the only thing about your continent that even remotely interest me is Amsterdam,so you can just go on with your nasty a$$ you have no input on americans.omg your so stupid i can no longer sit here in your presence your iggnorance is making sobe taste gross.buh bye euro trash talker

p.s.... most americans think your country smells like pig sh*t,and you people are completely overated. this american takes a piss on your country :)

i don't care if this little girl came from pluto, i hope she is found unharmed. poor baby. i hate seeing things like this. i almost hope that it was some woman who wanted the child for her own and not some child molesting animal.

7,14:)))hehe,i am writing here not speaking,funny when people try to be original hehe:))) and we seem to have a conversation,so therefor u understand me!?don´t know about my gramma but your logics though are very poor:))but if you want we can have it in any other language,hverning finnst þér það???!
Dummies,you are famous all around the world with your ignorance!Don´t even pick on Europe like that one-7,05,my dear,USA is a country since what 200-300 years!?therefor u r no natives and are bunch of immigrants with no roots and history!
And hey,the gramma teacher- North,Central and South America:))))I laugh the most when Jay Leno has the jaywalk and goes around asking people on the street,where is Paris for example and they say in London...hahahaha.ignorants!

Ok, Eurotrash @ 6:01, if Europe is so great then why the hell are you all here?! Take your black leather wearing stinking bidet using behinds back to dilapidated filthy inbred Europe and stay there.

6:13 ,are all americans fat,ugly and dump!?I guess the last one yes,how could you make a conclusion after one post for all Europe,when Europe was inhibited with people,art,knowledge,traditions,culture,books,you were just hanging from the trees....do you even know where Europe is cause you are well known for being the dumbest people in the earth when comes to geography,even your own talk show presenters make fun of the americans for being fat and stupid.How many languages do you speak!?Cause I know written and spoken 5 of them.And next time comment the commenter not trash a whole continet,ok?!and make one google search and check how many people and how many different nations are there from then make the calculation how many different caltures you have and from then think logical that Greece or Iceland for example don´t not have the same manners,ethics,beleives,traditions,caltures and think that every individuals thinks different,i would never leave a small child alone,ever,is not ok and is bad very bad,and i am europian and honestly thanx god i wasn´t born in the US(not America,this is the continent and not your country).