Bat wrote:
How many more innocent children and babies have to die, before these useless incompetent social workers, get off of their backsides and DO something? Are they blind as well as stupid? What this poor baby went through doesn,t bear thinking about. They should sack bloody social workers. Time after time we hear the same old rubbish. “lessons will be learnt” or, “enquires will be made”. Fat lot of good that is after the poor child has died isn,t it? :evil: :evil: :evil:
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A few years ago I befriended a young mother of 3 aged 10 months to 5 years who had moved in over the road to me, lovely children impeccably dressed, well behaved a credit to their parents. One morning the mother knocked on my door at 8 in the morning saying her husband had hurt the baby. My son was 5 at the time so I had to take him with me to her house, my stomach lurched as I saw the 10 month old baby with burn blisters on his face and what seemed to be a grazed carpet burn on his cheek.
The father was ordered to move out for 2 weeks, then let back on the condition he was not allowed to be alone with them. One evening, I knew the mother was out at work doing her cleaning job and the father was alone with them. I rang the Social Services, they asked me if I had the injunction number that prevented him from being alone with them, if I wasn’t so disgusted I would have laughed. They said in that case there is nothing we can do. The rage I felt propelled me to the doctors the next morning begging for valium or similar to help me sleep, something I had never done before. The doctor refused.
I later found out that the father on previous occasions had burnt the baby with an iron and broken his arm. I will never forget the reaction of my 5 year old son after that morning when he turned to me and said I didn’t llike seeing that babys face mummy I think it really hurt him.
They were allowed to continue living as a family and were rehoused for which I was grateful as when I observed the Social Workers visiting, restraining myself was more than I could bear. So forgive me if I have no faith whatsover in the Social Services. To this day I wonder how ever that women could live with that man!