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And no action was taken against them
I have seen 'Child Protection procedures' taken for a lot less, but of course, these families were not so well placed in society.....

Yes. We all saw them on telly a few years back when they did dawn raids although none of their 'evidence' was true.
Kids parted from loving families due to social workers f*** ups but kept with the adoptive parents 'for the sake of the child' is the last one I can remember.
Kids that should have been taken but not ..... Victoria Climbie

Lets not pretend that social workers/services system works.

I do feel very sorry for the McCanns. From all accounts the front door of appartment where the kids were sleeping was in full view of where they were all eating. Pontins do/did (30 yrs ago) a service where they would alert parents of crying kids when the parents were in the entertainment halls, so lets not attack the McCanns for doing no worse than the vast majority of most parents have done in the past.
Were any of those calling the McCans there in Portugal? I suspect not, so you don't really know for certain exactly what went on.
