Looks like Fiona McKeown (Scarlett Keeling’s mother) is now coming under scrutiny for her parenting style. The criticism has arisen because she chose to leave her 15yr old daughter (Scarlett Keeling) with people that she considered friends. These friends allowed her to stay out drinking with them until the early hours whilst Fiona was with her boyfriend.
In another twist it turns out that the house that Fiona was renting has been under surveillance by the Indian drug squad.
There is a fairly predictable clamour to accuse Fiona McKeown of being a “bad mother” and that she is in some way culpable (at least in part) for the circumstances that may have led to her daughter’s rape and subsequent murder.
Quite frankly this is some of the most abhorrent reporting that I have had the misfortune to read. There are a slew of posters on answers.yahoo.com for example that are desperate to draw parallels between this case and the sad disappearance of the McCann girl.
The two cases are so far removed it is without merit to even try and find similarities.
There are millions of young girls at the same age as Scarlett. Many of these girls are allowed by their parents to do pretty much as they like, including drinking, and underage sexual activity. Whilst this is sad - most of these cases do not result in the death of those girls (although unplanned pregnancy and addictions are prevalent), and so do not come under the scrutiny that this case will.
Fiona apparently left her daughter in the care of adults that she trusted - more than many in the UK do today.
Lambasting this woman is cheap and unpleasant reporting. Understanding the facts and how her daughter met her demise is constructive and is being done.
Let us support this woman in her grief, not try to blame her.
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I agree. She isn’t as bad as a murdering rapist. She just made a lot of choices which any reasonable parent would consider too stupid to even entertain. The end result was just a question of probabilities. Of course it was made easier by the fact she got to go and do what she wanted. An inconvenient truth, to coin a phrase.
We all make mistakes - most of us are lucky enugh that they are not terrible ones.
I am not for one second trying to excuse her - I just can’t bring myself to blame her either.
Leave the woman alone the choices she made contributed to the murder of her daughter how come she gets slagged off and madelaine mcanns parents are untouchable. the woman is human and doing the best by her family all respect to her
I completely agree that he apparent support for the McCanns is oddly lacking for Fiona… Typical of middle England hating single working-class mum’s though.
Fiona is receiving bad press and the scorn of the public because of one very basic fact. Mother’s protect their young. Fiona did not protect her precious daughter. She left a 15 year old ALONE in a foreign country!! Not in the animal kingdom, nor in the history of humanity is this acceptable in any way shape or form. Her behaviour defies all instictive human nature. And just because others parents are negligent, does not justify Fiona’s.
Normally, I would take a level view of a comment like that and accept that people can have opinions that differ from mine and simply be grateful that someone took the time to post a comment.
This comment lacks any awareness of the real world and I cannot simply just ignore it.
Many holiday companies lay on people who we don’t know and have probably met on the day that we leave our children in the ‘kids club’ whilst on holiday.
Many 15 year olds can be found on cultural exchange trips in Europe, without their parents and with adults that those parents are unlikely to have met.
Unaccompanied children will often fly with an adult designated by the airline - again the parents rarely meet or know these people.
Fiona left her child in the care of people she knew, and trusted.
All she is guilty of is poor judgement.
All you are guilty of is a pious misunderstanding of life.
Dont give up. I been watching the press. They very judgemental.
Would like to meet up wid yo. I know Scarlet would like yo to be helped. Both my daughters spent 2-3 months in Goa. Do not give up the fight, not only for Scarlet but also for mine. Take care. Yo know where I am, sorry about the past. X n love. Nickoneleg. X