Madeleine McCann vanished more than 17 years ago, after her parents recklessly left her and her infant siblings alone in an apartment while vacationing in Portugal. The likelihood of the girl ever being found, and the same can be said for any actual justice for what might have happened to her. Nonetheless, the public remains captivated to this case that has spanned across nearly two decades. Her siblings have gained media attention recently for making their own promise to find answers alongside their parents, but what do they truly know about her disappearance? Have they been kept sheltered from the unsavory details that paint their parents in a guilty light? Have they been kept sheltered from the police evidence in Portugal that implies their sister never made it out of their rental apartment alive?
Belfast Live reports that the young adult siblings of Madeleine McCann have made appearances alongside their parents in the effort to keep her name in the public eye. The younger siblings of the missing girl have long-been kept from the public spotlight ever since the night she vanished over 17-years-ago. That is clearly due to the high-profile nature of Maddie’s case, but it could also be heavily due to the circumstances of her disappearance and the fact that the entire planet knows that they were the young infants who were shamefully left alone with their toddler sister the night she vanished.
Over the course of the many years that Madeleine has been missing, her parents and their supporters have notoriously complained about the possibility of the twins seeing coverage that is critical of Kate and Gerry McCann. Now that they’re adults, and soon attending university, who’s going to keep them sheltered from all of those evil, evil details? Details such as the cadaver dog evidence which determined that Madeleine McCann possibly suffered some kind of fatal incident while in the rental apartment in Portugal. Evidence which also included the lack of proof of a break-in, but Kate McCann’s fingerprints on the window where it was implied that someone else came in and took the little girl.
Have Kate and Gerry McCann prepared their surviving adult children for the inevitable — that they will eventually have access to all the details and information that the rest of the world has known since 2007? The twin siblings of the long-missing girl have joined in the public spectacle of “never giving up hope,” but what do they really know about the case? Do they know that their parents were negligent at the very least? Do they realize that their parents were suspects in Madeleine’s disappearance?
These are all questions that will likely go unanswered, as the siblings of Madeleine McCann have been brought up in a very PR-controlled environment funded by the donations of a worried public, book sales and tax payer dollars. Meanwhile, investigators in the UK will continue draining every cent they can from the public in order to maintain the façade that Madeleine was taken by some random pervert that they’ll never find, or never have the evidence to truly convict.
Chelsea Hoffman is a true crime writer with over a decade of professional writing experience. She is best known for her coverage of missing people including the tragic disappearance of Madeleine McCann as well as the heartbreaking cases of Dylan Redwine, Heather Elvis and many others.
