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AboveTheSalt
10-09-2008, 12:34
A 17-month-old boy who was recorded on the Child Protection Register under the categories of neglect and physical abuse died from multiple injuries, including a broken back, last August.

The child had been seen by a locum consultant paediatrician two days before it died. The paediatrician decided that she could not carry out a full systemic examination as he was "miserable and cranky". (Link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7607099.stm))

How on earth does this sort of thing still happen?
Surely Social Services should be more proactive in taking "at risk" children into care? :confused:
Pebs
10-09-2008, 12:42
:(
cleanbluesky
10-09-2008, 13:00
According to the article there wasn't enough evidence to convict them when the baby was taken into care. Also, social service tend to intervene as little as possible and by the time they became aware it was too late.

I think the most disturbing thing about the case is that the broken back was cause by pushing the baby over a knee or bannister and then pulling head and toes down either side of it.
Admiral Huddy
10-09-2008, 13:21
Having fostering, we resigned due to the fact that we found SS to be anything but caring and a system that is failing our young, this sort of thing doesn't surprise me in the slightest :(
Pebs
10-09-2008, 13:24
I think the most disturbing thing about the case is that the broken back was cause by pushing the baby over a knee or bannister and then pulling head and toes down either side of it.

God almighty :( I feel sick.
cleanbluesky
10-09-2008, 13:28
Having fostering, we resigned due to the fact that we found SS to be anything but caring and a system that is failing our young, this sort of thing doesn't surprise me in the slightest :(

I used to work alongside SS and would agree with what you say but its also worth remembering that whilst SS seem apathetic, there are people like yourself (and many other volunteers) who are far from. Also, I'd imagine that you have to find some way of dealing with what you see on a daily basis working in the SS - including the cases that cant be helped due to lack of evidence or legal issues.
loki
10-09-2008, 14:16
According to the article there wasn't enough evidence to convict them when the baby was taken into care. Also, social service tend to intervene as little as possible and by the time they became aware it was too late.

I think the most disturbing thing about the case is that the broken back was cause by pushing the baby over a knee or bannister and then pulling head and toes down either side of it.

It really makes you wonder what makes on earth could a child have done to make and adult do something that would cause such pain. Whats more disturbing is that it sounds completely pre-meditated
Lomster
10-09-2008, 15:30
That is so sad and sick :(

I know Children can be hard work and difficult but I really don't understand why anyone would harm them let alone do that to them :(
cleanbluesky
10-09-2008, 15:36
Makes me think of Chris Benoit
Jello
10-09-2008, 16:14
I really don't understand why anyone would harm them let alone do that to them :(

Of course you don't. You know nothing of the circumstances, how can you possibly hope to understand why it happened?

Accepting that some people value life differently is enough, is it not?
loki
10-09-2008, 16:21
Makes me think of Chris Benoit

Wasn't he that Wrestling fella. Thought h just ended up doing the wife n kids in and shot himself. Didn't realise there was any abuse there
Garp
10-09-2008, 16:33
The one that shocked me most came up a couple of weeks ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7589247.stm
-J-
10-09-2008, 16:54
how anyone could do such things to a little child is beyond me

reading such news makes me very angry and sad
Fayshun
10-09-2008, 17:11
Accepting that some people value life differently is enough, is it not?
I find it very difficult to swallow that someone values life that little that they'd do anything that to a child.
Jello
10-09-2008, 17:24
I find it very difficult to swallow that someone values life that little that they'd do anything that to a child.

I'm aware of equally if not more tragic happenings in this world for something like this to be hard for me to swallow.

What I find interesting is how people who have contradicting beliefs and morales can coexist in the same culture. I suppose sometimes they don't, and this is why we get 'shocking' stories such as the OP.
Fayshun
10-09-2008, 17:32
Have you got kids Jello?

My view is definitely coloured by being a parent.
Jello
10-09-2008, 19:06
I'm not a parent. That shouldn't allow you to assume I can't appreciate your perspective. Though it would be hard for me to convince you otherwise.
Fayshun
11-09-2008, 08:21
I haven't assumed you can't appreciate my perspective at all.
Von Smallhausen
12-09-2008, 18:50
Don't get me started on social services.

As for this case, name the bastards if convicted.
Lana
12-09-2008, 22:34
A 17-month-old boy who was recorded on the Child Protection Register under the categories of neglect and physical abuse died from multiple injuries, including a broken back, last August.


I had a high school teacher who said she thought people should be have to get a license to have children...things like this make me tempted to agree. Nobody should have to suffer that, least of all an innocent baby.
Lana
12-09-2008, 22:35
The one that shocked me most came up a couple of weeks ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7589247.stm

this makes my heart hurt :'(
vix
14-09-2008, 10:19
I had a high school teacher who said she thought people should be have to get a license to have children...things like this make me tempted to agree. Nobody should have to suffer that, least of all an innocent baby.

I'd agree with that! If you want to adopt, you have to go through all kinds of paperwork to see if you would be a good parent. They should just do that anyway for anyone who wants kids.