Written by I consider I am a fairly sensible person, so hearing the media constantly going on about this case tends to rile me.
Yes – it is tragic and the mother deserves to go to prison, but do we really need to start playing the blame game? Surely the better thing to do is to learn lessons from it. Either way, it will remain a fact of life that these things happen and some will fall through the net. After all, the boy’s natural father didn’t know anything was wrong, so is it any wonder that social services weren’t sure.
The article above states that social services took legal advice about taking him into care a week before his death – no doubt they were told they faced a law suit unless they gathered more evidence. Yes it is terrible that money is a factor when discussing life and death, but the fact remains that without money, more kids would be left in dangerous situations so paying a load of cash in a lawsuit is not going to help anyone.
I say instead of trying to place the blame on one person, the flaws in the whole chain should be identified and procedures put in place to make sure they never happen again. I am sure there are no two abuse cases that are the same so every case will have to be treated on it’s own merits and unfortunately, things do go wrong.
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