That would be a wonderful headline to read some time in the future and, hopefully, we will be if a case currently being heard at the High Court in London creates a precedent for the many victims of child abuse who managed to survive to adulthood.

Sadly it is a fact of life that not all mothers are as loving and protective as the mother bear in the above picture, there are far too many ‘Tracey Connellys’ in this world and too many of their little victims who just were not important enough in their mother’s lives.

In the High Court a man is suing his mother, now in her sixties, for failing to protect him and his four brothers and sisters from the relentless abuse they suffered at the hands of their violent father when they were children. He is also suing her for the abuse they suffered at her own hands. Too many of these people, these women, get off with often at the most just a few short years in prison as punishment for failing to defend their dead child – they get out and continue with their lives. And those children who survive endure a childhood – for want of a better word – filled with neglect, fear, pain, injuries and insecurity. For once we are hearing about a victim fighting back and taking legal action against the person who should have made his childhood a haven of safety and love, but who chose not to. His own mother.

I have written here about so many children who did not manage to survive their short lives on earth with the women fate chose as their mothers, but maybe some day we will hear about baby Peter’s siblings taking their vile ‘mother’ to court for what she allowed to happen in their lives. She still has a lot to answer for in that regard.