- Target:
- Social Services
- Region:
- United Kingdom
From The Times November 12, 2008
When the infant known in court only as Baby P was brought home from hospital days after his birth in March 2006, it was as a bubbly, blue-eyed boy with the first signs of curly blond hair. He was, according to those who came into contact with him, a lively child with a ready smile.
After 17 months enduring abuse of an almost unimaginable cruelty, the boy had been reduced to a nervous wreck, his hair shaved to the scalp and his body covered in bruises and scabs. Physical injuries included eight broken ribs, a broken back and the missing top of a finger, while the emotional damage was almost incalculable. Despite it all, Baby P was said to have still attempted a smile.
The jury was told that details of the intervening months, leading to the baby’s death last August, would “fill [them] with revulsion”. But even this could not prepare jurors — one of whom could not hold back tears — for one of the worst cases of sadistic brutality and sordid child neglect to come before a British court.
Please sign this petition for baby P. Social workers for this baby have completely failed him. They had visited baby P over 50 times and had not picked up on the scale of the abuse this baby was suffering.
They are being paid to prevent this from happening and have failed to do so in the worst possible way. I cannot believe that with such horrific injuries sustained over such a long period of time even the most untrained person could not have seen what was happening and removed that baby.
They are responsible for failing baby P and should not be allowed to have the opportunity to make the same mistake. They must be made to resign or sacked right now.
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The Social workers for baby P should be sacked NOW petition to Social Services was written by frances dale and is in the category Children's Rights at GoPetition.