Another week another social services disaster in Derby again. Office needed a rare talking to after endless google searches and rare time wasting started with the verdict. Even then the story had two more cases come up within the county boundaries that beggar belief (when you get handed certain browser histories)
First and older case - 6 kids burned to death in a purpose-made house fire. Some jilted partner tried to stage a house fire to blame an ex re a custody fight but, unsurprisingly, got it all wrong and every single child died in the blaze. The mother is about to be released
Followed by another killing with a prosecution from last summer, murdered nipper had “39 rib fractures, 19 visible bruises and internal injuries likened to those seen in car crash victims”. Blunt force injuries indicative of an rta = force, velocity? Step father with a history of coercion, no warnings heeded
And by theme of banality of evil, another toddler death which has had nationwide coverage all week, parents hiding in plain sight during lockdowns but the injury list made me feel physically sick - 57 bone-breaks leading to infections, pneumonia and eventually sepsis
I do my utmost to avoid tabloid witch-hunts, they’re relentlessly common, “Baby P” etc, where all the signs have been red-flagged, extended family/relatives with multiple contacts to relevant authorities raising safe-guarding concerns fumbled or ignored and you, as an observer, have zero agency. Combine coercive control, psychopathic narcissism and a couple of habits? Boom, kids start becoming more and more transparent to social services, in-person appointments go online, add more avoidant behaviour and within months notify the coroner
Surfaced again with a younger female client who can’t conceive after being hit by a drunk driver, will never be able to via ivf yet yearns to be a mother. Try and introduce adoption. Weird how adoption is one area the anti-abortion cohort get quiet on rapid - oh you want to be pro-life but shirk any structured commitment to adoption or £ because the care sector isn’t just passing round foster home applications randomly either
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