I have no evidence for my opinion, but as soon as I heard the story months ago I suspected the parents. As I say, it's just a hunch - whether it stems from cynicism, intuition, whatever, I don't know.
I totally agree that even if they're not directly responsible for the death/disappearance, to leave children of this age unattended, regardless of where you are is asking for trouble. You should be able to leave your front door open when you nip down the shops, but you don't. You should be able to leave your car unlocked when you go to the supermarket, but you don't. You should be able to leave your passports on the bed in an unlocked villa when you go on an excursion while on holiday, but you don't. So why the hell would you leave the most precious belongings you have, i.e. your children, on their own while you go out? Whether you're on the lash or just going for a meal is academic - you just wouldn't do it.
Either way, they're at least morally, if not legally, guilty, be it of murder/manslaughter/death by misadventure/whatever other term you want to use for responsibility for another's death, or of negligence.
If it's the latter, which in many ways I hope it is*, then no doubt they have learned their lesson the hardest way possible.
I'm not particularly well informed about the case, and most of the above is down to my, quite possibly misguided, instinct but I smell a rat.
*edit: Because, although I know these things happen, it would be nice to believe - if only for a short while - that I don't live in a world where people kill their own kids and then string the world along by telling them they've been kidnapped
I totally agree that even if they're not directly responsible for the death/disappearance, to leave children of this age unattended, regardless of where you are is asking for trouble. You should be able to leave your front door open when you nip down the shops, but you don't. You should be able to leave your car unlocked when you go to the supermarket, but you don't. You should be able to leave your passports on the bed in an unlocked villa when you go on an excursion while on holiday, but you don't. So why the hell would you leave the most precious belongings you have, i.e. your children, on their own while you go out? Whether you're on the lash or just going for a meal is academic - you just wouldn't do it.
Either way, they're at least morally, if not legally, guilty, be it of murder/manslaughter/death by misadventure/whatever other term you want to use for responsibility for another's death, or of negligence.
If it's the latter, which in many ways I hope it is*, then no doubt they have learned their lesson the hardest way possible.
I'm not particularly well informed about the case, and most of the above is down to my, quite possibly misguided, instinct but I smell a rat.
*edit: Because, although I know these things happen, it would be nice to believe - if only for a short while - that I don't live in a world where people kill their own kids and then string the world along by telling them they've been kidnapped
