The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have spoken of their feelings of guilt at not being there when she was taken.
In their first interview Kate and Gerry McCann spoke about the "darkness" they felt in the first hours and days after their daughter's abduction. The couple told how they had made arrangements with other families to regularly check on their children on the night of May 3 while dining a short distance away.
Gerry McCann compared eating in the tapas bar at the Ocean Club Resort in Praia da Luz as like "having dinner in your garden". But he said: "I think it's fair to say that the guilt that we feel having not been there at that moment, irrespective of whether we had been in the next bedroom or not, will never leave us."
His wife Kate said: "Certainly the first few days I think the guilt was very difficult but I think as time goes on you feel stronger and you feel very supported."
Mrs McCann insisted the couple were not irresponsible parents but said they had perhaps been naive.
She said: "I think we were naive, we are very responsible parents, we love our children very much. I don't think any parent could imagine or consider anything like this happening."
Mr McCann said the experience of his daughter's abduction was "worse than your worst nightmare" but said that they had drawn strength from thousands of messages of support from around the world.
They also described how they have been dealing with Madeleine's abduction in the presence of their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
Mr McCann said: "We have said she's gone on a little trip just now and Amelie came out with one really cutting line that went right to the core, she said 'Madeleine's on trip, back soon'.
"We certainly pray for that every day."
Courtesy from AOL
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