Would Denise Bulger be getting the same treatment now as the McCanns if little Jamie was still missing?

I don't think the Mc canns 'neglected' their children. They shouldn't have left them alone but neglect is a long term on going thing. I don't think Jamie Bulger was neglected either. The pack on here that have bayed blood towards the Mc canns will never change their minds - their choice. Either way one child died and the other is missing neither mum is at fault and neither mum deserves to blamed for what happened. I have said many times that leaving the children unattended does not mean that they were abused, neglected, malnourished unloved etc etc.But it was wrong. This doesn't mean to say that she didn't love Maddie regardless of what the do gooders on here say. Yes I agree that Jamie's mum took her eye off the ball, she let go of his hand and he was taken and murdered. This can also be classed as 'neglect' if anybody wants to nitpick. The thing is no matter what the Mcanns don't deserve the hate and appaling way that they have been dragged through the mud. As a mother I could never say to another mother that they deserve to lose the child unless the child was abused or ill treated. There is no evidence to suggest other than the Mccanns were loving parents who didn't ill treat Maddie. Making that decision to leave them alone has cost them dearly. And I still con't undertstand why the baying crowd don't slate the other diners for leaving their children also. Apparently because they didn't get abducted means that it is acceptable. If they all did the same 'crime' of leaving their children unnatended then they should all face the same accusations of child neglect whether the children went missing or not