The list just goes on and on. The litany of child abuse and murders that we are so sickened by these is nothing new. We are so appalled by the fact that so many children have died at the hands of their carers since Victoria Climbie in 2000 that we must not forget that there is a long trail of sorrow leading back years and years before little Victoria died in such abject pain and misery. Since Victoria there have been of course Peter Connelly, Tiffany Wright, Ainlee Labonte, John Gray in 2003 and recently Bobby Louch – all these to name but a mere few. I have been criticised for writing harshly about Sharon Shoesmith in the past whose famous words were “You can’t stop people are who determined to kill their children…”
Yes you can Ms Shoesmith – you can bloody well take the kids off them.
Enough of her though because she is just another failed bureaucrat in an endless long line of failed bureaucrats who ‘missed signs’ – ‘made mistakes’ – ‘made errors of judgement’ – ‘failed to act’. Failed to act! that is what is killing these kids, the failure to actually do anything – people at the top drawing the huge salaries handing forms to fill out and boxes to tick to exhausted social workers who do not have the powers, or the clout, to pick up a beaten, bruised toddler and walk out of the house with him/her followed by a couple of burly policemen. Ever since young Dennis O’Neill died from horrendous abuse back in 1945 our child welfare authorities have been ‘getting it wrong’. Time and time and time again. Can anyone show me the figures proving what GOOD they have done – how many children HAVE been saved…? probably not but I sure as eggs can produce enough sickening evidence of the failures. Just recently the UK was in a panic over swine flu and mourned the deaths of a handful of children who succumbed to the virus…what about the epidemic of child killings though – and how nothing has changed at all since these forgotten little souls became mere statistics, a few lines in a newspaper article and then nothing:
Jasmine Beckford – 2/12/1979 – 5/7/1984 (pictured below)
Tyra Henry – 8/11/1982 – 29/8/1984
Heidi Koseda – 16/2/80 – ?/11/84 (exact date of death unknown as Heidi’s body was found decomposing in a cupboard in her mother’s house some 2 months after she died from starvation and abuse. Pictured below)
Kimberley Carlile – 3/11/1981 – 8/6/1986
Karl McGoldrick – 1/6/1984 – 4/12/1986
Liam Johnson – 1/8/1984 – 25/12/1987
Sukina – 19/9/1983 – 6/12/1988
Daniel Vergauwen – 23/3/1984 – 8/9/1989 : Part Two
Since the act child abuse was redefined and reclassified in the 1940′s, as a result of the death of Dennis O’Neill, successive governments have spent billions holding inquiries into murdered children, drafting legislation to protect them, employing thousands of pen pushers to oversee their welfare…and yet still parents have the upper hand and still they continue to neglect, abuse and kill their children in the most horrible ways. You may not remember those children listed above, or even have heard of them – now you have. The media’s coverage of child deaths in the 1980′s and 1990′s was not as extensive as it is today, today there is an urgent need to keep highlighting this dreadful problem in human society. Nothing has changed unfortunately; not the governments, the policies, the social services and sadly not the scum who should never become parents in the first place.
Here’s an interesting article: Stepfathers Who Kill
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