Saturday, November 15, 2008

Baby P death sparks national child protection review

A nationwide review of child protection services found two men guilty of involvement in the death of a 17 month-old baby who suffered terrible injuries after being used as a “punch bag”.

The baby’s mother had pleaded guilty to involvement in his death. One of the men guilty is supposedly her boyfriend and the other one that cannot be mentioned for legal reasons has been cleared on murder charges.
The verdict wanted an immediate response from authorities:

An independent review of child protection services.
To investigate a senior pediatrician who failed to have seen child’s broken back and ribs.
Two social workers and one lawyer had been given warnings over the case.

Opinion:

I find this absurd! I mean how a pediatrician can not notice certain that the child had these injuries. Did she do her job properly? What kind of mother leaves her child to be used as a punching bag? This is cruel! An innocent child has been murdered for absolutely no reason what so ever.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I totally agree with you and I think England does as well, because this news has taken over the BBC news for days now.

The United Kingdom has been raising a lot of money for 'Children in Need' this last week. The entire nation is standing together to help their own children in need. I just hope that their government will do this as well by putting more money to develop their child protection services.

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Olaf said...

It's kind of weird one of the guys isn't mentioned because of legal charges, makes you think it'll probably be an important figure or something. Nevertheless it's an outrageous story. These people are monsters. The thing that surprises me most is the incapability of the practitioner. Horrifying.