LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- Two British movie theater chains are caught in the middle when it comes to a video about Madeleine McCann, the 4-year-old abducted in Portugal two months ago.
Citing complaints from parents who said their children were upset by the video showing photos of the 4-year-old girl and explaining how she was kidnapped from her family's holiday home, Cineworld and Odeon had Carlton Screen Advertising remove the "Find Madeleine" video, Sky News reported Wednesday. But then other parents who support the video began contacting Sky News.
"If your child can understand Shrek, then your child should be aware of stranger danger," an American woman told the British news agency. "I find it quite naive of any mother who thinks they need to shield their child from this awful truth."
Niamh Brennan of Colchester, concurred, saying that not advertising Madeleine's plight "is pretending it does not happen."
"This is not Disneyland. This is the real world," she said.
A Carlton spokeswoman said she was aware many people wanted the video to be carried despite the complaints but that it is the job of a cinema chain to entertain, and not to risk offending its audience.
