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Disgusting,that it goes on.

JG..........then SS's should have seen the bloody light long after that.........

It's plain evil Rose,,,,,,,,,,,

You can't just 'fall off the register' of a school, LadyLol , anyone electing to home educate who already has their child placed in a school, has, at very least, to send a letter to the head couched in very specific terms. Most also send a letter to their LEA, though it is the headteachers responsibility to inform LEA.

from a previous report



"Something happened in the house that no-one could get to because there wasn't sufficient legislation to get in," said Mr Brownbill.

The trial heard how behind closed doors Gordon's partner had put a lock on the fridge door and punished Khyra, hitting her with a cane and putting her "in detention" in the garden.

The children were all forced to eat from one bowl or were force fed until they were sick if they had eaten too much. "

is that 'mentally ill' or just plain evil ?

I can see how it happens, when we fosterd we had meeting after meetings even meetings about meetings, the social workers would chat about there holidays the ones that turned up, i never once went to a meeting where it could have been sorted in 5 mins, some of those social care workers etc should have been visiting people like this, how do they fall of the register at school, if you so much take a child out of school you have a phone call within hours there is no excuse.
There is a case now where mum has learning difficulties and boyfriend has had 2 previous children removed the new girlfriend is expecting a baby social services are involved thank god, these people also live in a big city im just wondering how long it will take before they issue a ultimatium as to wether she choses her baby of bf.

Sue, we're too bloody soft over here I am sad to say...............



SueMaid Today at 20:11 Request review
Whirls we had a similar case here in Oz with the child found in appalling conditions which aren't appropriate to post on here. The child's mother got a life sentence.

Sue xx

JustGinnie Today at 20:13 Request review
Both the mother and her boyfriend have serious mental issues according to the reports on Central and ITV news programmes

Interesting that JG. I wonder if that summing up/ comment has been made by their Brief?? ie it seems these days that blaming the old "mental" issues...is a sure fire way of getting away with "all sorts"

Det Insp Sean Russell of West Midlands Police, who led the investigation, said he believed Khyra had been kept a virtual prisoner in an upstairs room.

"The defendants had created a situation in which the children, who were being educated at home, had been kept away from their extended family, friends and the outside world," he said.
The house was well-stocked with food, but this was kept locked away out of the reach of Khyra and five other children in the care of the defendants.


Det Insp Sean Russell said his officers were "reduced to tears"
The other children were also starved, two of them suffering from dangerous malnutrition by the time they were rescued.

Words fail me Rose...

Apparently MP Khalid Mahmood has called for a public inquiry into social services handling of the case.

add, just reading it says she was suffering from severe depression at the time....

but not so severe she couldn't get plenty of food in, lock it away and make sure hardly any went to her kids.. ?!

Whirls we had a similar case here in Oz with the child found in appalling conditions which aren't appropriate to post on here. The child's mother got a life sentence.

Sue xx

no words, x

Hi Whirley, I heard the verdict while I was up a ladder painting and swore at the radio... beggars belief...if i starved my child to death what could it be other than murder?! unless mental illness was proven which I didn't hear mention of?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8519862.stm

A mother who starved her seven-year-old daughter to death has been cleared of murder, but has admitted manslaughter.

Prosecutors accepted Angela Gordon's defence of diminished responsibility over the death of Khyra Ishaq and agreed to the lesser charge.

Gordon's partner, Junaid Abuhamza, had a manslaughter plea accepted following an earlier report on his mental health.

Khyra weighed 2st 9lb (16.5kg) when she was found severely emaciated at a house in Handsworth, Birmingham, in 2008.

Paramedics took her to Birmingham Children's Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

'Squalid conditions'

Following the end of the trial, it was revealed a judge in the High Court had concluded that "in all probability" Khyra would be alive if there had been "an adequate initial assessment by educational welfare services".

In a ruling which could only be reported at the end of the criminal trial, Mrs Justice King said: "It is beyond belief that, in 2008, in a bustling, energetic and modern city like Birmingham, a child of seven was withdrawn from school and thereafter kept in squalid conditions for a period of five months before finally dying of starvation."