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Baby With 8 Broken Ribs Dies After Social Workers Leave Him With Abusive Parents
Original Post Date: 10th Sep, 2008 - 2:19pm
Why the social workers returned the baby to his mom when he already presented signs of abuse? They should go to jail too! >:(
A 17-month-old baby boy was murdered by his mother and her boyfriend despite being on a council "at risk" register and having already suffered a catalogue of injuries including eight fractured ribs and a broken back that left him paralyzed, a British court heard Tuesday.
The child, who along with the two adults cannot be named for legal reasons, was subjected to "a course of assaults of increasing violence" over many months at his home in North London even though he was being monitored by experts, the Old Bailey was told.
He was examined many times by doctors and was seen by a health visitor, social workers and was put on the Haringey Child Protection Register under the category of neglect and physical abuse for nine months, a jury was told.
Despite this he received numerous injuries — computer-generated images of which were shown to jurors to protect them from having to see the real thing.
Parts of the boy's fingernails and fingertips were missing, his head was covered in ulcerated sores and the skin between his upper lip and gum had been torn which, the court heard, was "highly suggestive of non-accidental injury, usually by forcing the teat of a bottle into a child's mouth or by a hard glancing blow across the mouth...
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