Kate McCann felt "Mentally Raped"
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Kate McCann felt "Mentally Raped"
Leveson Inquiry: Kate McCann felt 'mentally raped' after NOTW published private diary
Kate McCann was left feeling “mentally raped” after the News of the World published the private diary she had been keeping for her missing daughter, the Leveson inquiry into press standards heard yesterday.
The journal she kept after three-year-old Madeleine disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007 was so confidential that even her husband had not read it. The diary was seized by the Portuguese police as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine, but the inquiry was told that in September 2008 the News of the World published the journal under the headline: “Kate’s Diary: In Her Own Words.”
David Sherborne, the lawyer representing the McCanns along with 50 other victims of alleged press intrusion, said the experience left the family feeling violated.
“How did the News of the World get this from the police? We may never know now,” he said. “The publication of this material with a picture on the front page suggesting she had provided this herself left her feeling mentally raped, her husband says, and is it any wonder?”
On the third day of the public inquiry, Mr Sherborne made a searing attack on the tabloid press in Britain. He told the inquiry that phone hacking at the News of the World was more like an “industrial revolution” than the “cottage industry” that had been suggested previously by Robert Jay QC, counsel for the inquiry.
But he said the hearings were about more than just the illegal interception of voicemails. He said his clients would paint a vivid picture of the “despicable” actions of some tabloid journalists, which led to a breakdown in the trust between the press and the public.

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Perhaps "mentally raped" means "I didn't get to make any money out of it"
Kate McCann didn't do anything when the diary was published in a Portuguese newspaper but felt "mentally raped" when it was published in English in the NOTW (from which the "fund" has already received an "undisclosed sum")
Then Kate tells it all and much more in her bewk
She does seem to have a fixation on sexual violence Ughh
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McCanns to tell Levenson Inquiry of family's ordeal at hands of media
.Friday, November 18, 2011
Leicester Mercury
Gerry McCann will tell a major inquiry into journalistic standards that the newspaper industry's system of self-regulation has been "hopelessly inadequate" in protecting his family from the excesses of the press.
The Mercury reported in September how Mr McCann would give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, launched in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
This week, David Sherborne, the lawyer representing victims of alleged press intrusion, told the inquiry how Mr McCann and his wife, Kate, from Rothley, found themselves at the centre of a media storm after their daughter Madeleine went missing in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
Mr Sherborne said that the couple's privacy was pounced upon by editors "greedily waiting" for exclusive stories in order to sell more papers.
Speaking at the inquiry, he said: "When he gives evidence, Mr McCann will explain how it felt for him and his wife to be thrust from what one might call anonymity into the public limelight in the worst possible circumstances."
The lawyer added: "Mr McCann's evidence will be a perfect example of how hopelessly inadequate this (current) self-regulatory code is as a means of curbing the excesses of the press.
"He will refer to the blatant intrusion which he and his family suffered throughout, particularly when they were back in the United Kingdom, from the press camping outside their door to how his children were terrified as they were driven around by their parents."
The Leveson Inquiry was launched after it emerged that journalists at the News of the World had been involved in the illegal hacking of mobile phone messages.
The inquiry, however was given a far greater remit to explore the culture, ethics and regulation of journalists.
The media is currently regulated by the Press Complaints Commission, a body largely made up of media industry figures.
Mr Sherborne continued: "Moreover, Mr McCann will explain how in the months following the abduction of Madeleine, the behaviour of the press changed from an attitude of support to one of hostility.
"It was a change which he suspects was based on the commercial imperative to bring home exclusive stories for editors greedily waiting back in the United Kingdom watching the expenses bills of their journalists mounting up.
"Apparently, journalists were being told – he will say – that they had to get a front page story, or their job was on the line."
Mr McCann is expected to give evidence to the inquiry in the next fortnight.
The McCanns received £550,000 in a libel payout from the Express Newspapers, in March 2008.
In 2010, the McCann's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said in response to MPs' criticising the coverage of Madeleine's disappearance: "The problem Kate and Gerry had was with a number of national newspaper titles not the regional press.
"The Mercury's coverage has always been broadly fair and balanced and for that they remain grateful.
"Kate and Gerry are very pleased the Mercury continues to support them."
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/McCanns-tell-Levenson-Inquiry-family-s-ordeal/story-13885561-detail/story.html

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Mentally Raped?
Enough, Kate, and shame.

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aiyoyo wrote:No surprise there is it? Typical mccanns style - pointing the fingers elsewhere. It's never them.
From day one of the demise of Madeleine, I have been exposed to the Mccanns, I have been told untruthes, I have watched a whitewash developing, I have experienced the attempt to indoctrinate me to believe that there was no neglect, that Madeleine vanished from an unslept bed, that I should believe that a shutter was "jemmied", they intruded into my living-room.
That is a) Psychological Coercion or even b) Idealogical Coercion.
a) emotional Blackmail
b) a modification of social philosophy
and Kate talks about rape?
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The 'media storm' is fantastico when you are being asked your nonsensical pre-arranged questions and you're directing the content. When for whatever reason you are not controlling the papers' every word, its 'mental rape'??? That's not mental rape, that's life and the nature of the Beast that is the media. Get over it. Put up or shut up (please, shut the hell up!)
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Gillyspot wrote:you forgot c) Legal action if you dare share the news that you disagree with them
All that will change after Feb. A verdict against them will set the benchmark for future litigation, and the mccanns might find themselves getting a few more dozes of their own medicine.

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