The Haringey Tragedy
It's a disgrace. After the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand fiasco so many people were up in arms; suspensions, resignations, job losses. A baby loses his life in the most desperate of circumstances and no one, not one single person has lost their job.
The suffering of that poor little baby boy in Haringey has haunted me since I heard about it. It is wicked beyond measure. There are simply no words to describe this.
The question everyone so rightly asks is how was this allowed to happen? Sixty visits - sixty visits to this child, and he was left there - condemned to a life of suffering by the incompetence of social services.
How - HOW was he returned to those monsters, with all those injuries? How many different people saw that little baby and let this abuse, this torture continue?
All I hear is 'it's not as easy as just taking a child away' and 'social services have to be so careful'. The fact is individual people saw that little boy and not one of them, not ONE took him away to safety.
Even if they had to put their necks on the line and go through a mile of red-tape to help him, why didn't they?
I'd rather be unemployed than work for an organisation that does not intervene, or makes is impossible to help in situations clearly as bad as this.
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Laura Yates - Brummie mum Laura Yates is a 27 year old mother of two from Kings Heath. She gives her take on family life in the city.
I'm a nurse, and during my training i learnt that nurses care about people. Not money, not red tape. I don't work in A&E but would like to think that if i did and a baby came in crying, covered in blood, with clear, visable indications that he was indistress, i would not label him (nor would i allow for a doctor to) a 'whiny baby' no matter what the 'red blinking tape' was. No child cries to exercise their lungs and certainly no child cries at 17 months old for NO GOOD REASON!!!! It horrifies me to my very core that people like this even exist. I don't believe that people like this can be rehabilated as they are pure evil. Social services have that childs blood on their hands and i hope every single one of those involved is tortured everyday by that's childs face. May he rest in peace xxx
I'm a nurse, and during my training i learnt that nurses care about people. Not money, not red tape. I don't work in A&E but would like to think that if i did and a baby came in crying, covered in blood, with clear, visable indications that he was indistress, i would not label him (nor would i allow for a doctor to) a 'whiny baby' no matter what the 'red blinking tape' was. No child cries to exercise their lungs and certainly no child cries at 17 months old for NO GOOD REASON!!!! It horrifies me to my very core that people like this even exist. I don't believe that people like this can be rehabilated as they are pure evil. Social services have that childs blood on their hands and i hope every single one of those involved is tortured everyday by that's childs face. May he rest in peace xxx
Agreed. Lisa and I were very upset when we heard it. There are thousands of people that would have given this baby a loving home.
I really hope heads roll over this.
I'm gonna complain to the BBC.
They don't deserve their fertility....sterilise them!!! Put pay to them ever doing this again!!! Wicked and evil.
They don't deserve their fertility....sterilise them!!! Put pay to them ever doing this again!!! Wicked and evil.