[garinda]

I quite agree. The money people have sent, unasked for by her parents, seems to be some way for people to assuage some sort of public guilt/grief, in the same way they did after Diana died.

Don't blame the parents for sending in this money. People chose to do so. They had, and have, every opportunity to other gift money to charities dealing with missing children etc.

If I was her father, and it meant using this money to publicise Madeline's disappearance, in the hope she may yet be found, I'd do it.