A British couple, Kate and Gerry McCann, were named suspects on September 7th for their three-year-old daughter’s disappearance on May 3rd in Portugal. A $2 million fund has already been set up to help find Madeline, and the family decided not to use the money from the Find Madeline fund to pay their legal bills. As a result, the McCanns were thinking of selling their home, as were some of the other members of the family in order to help the parents. When Richard Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group, heard about this he decided that something needed to be done. The billionaire donated $200,000 to help the couple clear their names, and had already donated money to the Find Madeline fund. Branson is also trying to get other wealthy people to donate money to help the couple.
I’m a little bit divided on how I feel about this. On the one hand, I think that what Branson is doing is incredibly kind and generous, and I am very happy that he is doing what he can to help these parents. While on the other, I know that the parents are, unfortunately, often the ones to blame, and there must be some kind of evidence for them to be suspects in the case. However, if this ever happened to me, I would want someone to help out my parents. I don’t exactly know how I feel about this, or whether I think that what he is doing is right or not. Personally, I have always tried placing myself in other’s people’s shoes during a crisis such as this, but it is so hard to imagine losing a child. I know that I would want everything possible to be done in order to find a resolution. Therefore, I do recognize the fact that Branson is trying to help people and I think that that’s a good thing. These stories are always so sad, and I really hope that it turns out that the parents weren’t involved.
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I agree that these stories are very sad. I can’t ever understand why someone would want to hurt a child, especially if it is their child. Anyways, this is the first time I have heard this story. But I agree that this is a hard case to read. I hate to think that the parents on the ones involved with the crime. Sometimes they are and sometimes they aren’t. This reminds me of the book Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark. Two twin girls get kidnapped and as the reader we know who actually took them but we don’t know who the mastermind behind the crime was. It is a very involved book and it is very good. The police immediately question the father because of something that happened at work. Then a man offers his phone number to be called so the kidnappers could have a way to get in touch with the family about the ransom. Of course, he is then a suspect because he wasn’t a really great friend of the family. He was honestly a random guy. We know that he did it out of love and respect for the family but everyone doesn’t know if it was a good thing to do. So, I defiantly see how Branson could be viewed as a suspect but could also be viewed as an innocent by standard. I also hope it works out. Children are such innocent and loving people in this world. Why ruin their life before it has even begun?
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