another case

At least these parents did take the children to dinner with them!

Maybe you will accept my word that until they are PROVEN guilty they are assumed innocent. The so called 'fact' you gave in yor opening post is, at present, nothing but a complete fabrication on your part.

Nobody is disagreeing that people are innocent until proven guilty but since they have admitted leaving the children alone then that is a fact. What somebody thinks may have happened is not the same as them saying it actually has happened.

I feel very sorry and sad that this child has gone missing and has not yet been found but I find it difficult to have sympathy with her parents because of their behaviour since it has happened. Despite the fact that, undeniably, they will be suffering they have managed to take the p*** and make a lot of people look fools. I keep my sympathy for the child and her siblings.