The lesson to be learned here is - avoid the media like the plague.
Common sense, facts, humanity, justice and compassion all get rolled up into a frenzy of extracting the last millilitre of coverage out of it.
The structure of the whole issue gets to be so convoluted and surreal that no one has a clue where truth ends and copy selling gimmickry starts.
As far as I can see, there is not one single shred of any kind of evidence whatsoever here and yet people are convinced utterly of their guilt/innocence and are willing to dispense justice on the spot to them.
The media is the ultimate kangaroo court in forming peoples opinions for them, it is about time that media reporting of incidents of this kind was restricted to simply the truth.
Just suppose that they were charged and put on trial, they would be unlikely to face an unbiased jury anywhere in the world and that cannot be right, whether we realise it or not, the media is committed to providing what we want, in the early stages it was seeking the safe return of the child.
Now the mood has changed, the emphasis has shifted to tittle-tattle gossiping to keep the corpse of a story alive and shifting copy. The well-being of the child is not a story any more so there is only one area left to exploit.
Personally, I don't have a clue, and I'll leave it that way until I hear evidence given under oath in court.
