I wasn't particularly interested in this case anymore than your average Joe Soap. However I looked up stats on missing/abducted kids in the UK and the number is a lot, yet we rarely hear about them. Maybe for a few days in some cases. However on this site there was a link which caught my attention. It was the 48 questions that Mrs McCann refused to answer when questioned by the police and the 1 question she did answer. This made me question my own assumption that the child was abducted that most on here seem to assume. I've been in the situation where my son at that age went 'missing' in East Dulwich. I drove around like a lunatic trying to find him. As it turned out the little bugger was hiding at home. So I'm not at all unsympathetic to one losing a child in any circumstances. I disagree with leaving kids unattended in the way they did but I understand you can't wrap them up in cotton wool either. When my son was a kid he broke his arm falling off something in the kids playground in Dulwich Park. I don't blame myself for that. But that was not the case here. I don't have any particular feeling about the McCann's, but I now think that the child may not have been abducted. When I was a babbie, one of many in my family, I'm told an old trick to get us to sleep was to let us suck a finger after dipping it in a glass of whiskey. Not very correct but those were different times. What might a doctor have done to get the same result?