I have based pretty much every thing I have thought about this case on what I have read in the press, and what I have read in here. What else can I do? It's not like I had prescient knowledge of the event, and therefore was able to stalk all the persons involved, and know for a fact from my own eyewitness accounts what actually took place. I don't have high (or for that matter, low) ranking LE personel in my pocket keeping me in the loop on all the evidence gathered. Plus I have never even been in Portugual.
I have read variations on this theme before. I am not going to apologize or make excuses for forming my opinions and theories on what happened to this child based on the information I have received, most of which, yes, has come from some form of news media or another. I am not naive, or stupid, or mentally challenged in any way. Whether I believe only a little of what I read in the press, or every single line they print, does not change the fact I am not officially part of this case, I am not going to be the judge, or sit on the jury, so in the long run, whether one of my theories turns out to be 100% correct, or all of my theories turn out to be cow manure, it doesn't matter.
I read somewhere self-validation, promoting theories, whatever. The reason I read this thread, and occasionally post, is because 1.) I don't like bad things to happen to children, 2.) It kind of ticked me off when I heard this couple who abandoned their children on a nightly basis to go out and party with their friends were now appointing themselves experts on how to keep children safe (I mean, SERIOUSLY???) 3.) This case has twists and turns that makes it very difficult (at least for me) to make sense of, and 4.) I have random bursts of free time at work.
It is my personal opinion if someone out there has information they have not yet revealed, it is because they don't want to get involved, or be incriminated, way more than because the papers have implicated the parents.
Lanie