If you read one final article about Baby P…
…make it this one by Unity. Alas, it won’t appeal to all. There’s no screaming in it. There’s no calling for the torture and murder of the child’s mother, her boyfriend or the lodger. There’s no wishing that the social workers involved would commit suicide. There’s no prurient dwelling on the injuries inflicted on Baby P.
As to exactly what happened during the final two weeks of Baby P’s life, the truth seems to be elusive, and all the more so for the media, politicians and just about everyone else overlooking what’s right in front of them in the content of Haringey’s Serious Case Review. Even without sight of a transcript of the trial proceedings, what we can infer from the fact that the police failed to secure a murder or manslaughter conviction in this case and had to rely, instead, on obtaining convictions for the offence of causing or allowing the death of a child, is that no conclusive account of the circumstances leading to Baby P’s death was put before the court. Whether this was because the three individuals who were tried and convicted gave entirely conflicting accounts or simply refused to implicate each other in the child’s death is unclear, primarily because in their unseemly haste to point the finger at social workers and seek out a scapegoat, there appears to have been little or no information published as to the proceedings of the trial.
It’s sober, measured, thoughtful and brilliant. You really should read it.
Posted on November 18th, 2008 at 9:25am under Crime and punishment
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And in complete contrast – while I know we’ve largely been able to go back to ignoring her – here’s Nadine Dorries:
“They say eyes are the window onto the soul. If a social worker had taken a few seconds to look into Baby P’s eyes, they would have seen all they needed to know.”
Hmm.
Stop the press! Nadine Dorries discovers a new forensic science. Has she informed Scotland Yard? They’ll solve all their outstanding cases by lunchtime.
Folks, please do let us, the public, at the end of the day of legal enquiries into the death of this little precious litttle angel BABY PETER, do not give up upon receiving petitions for JUSTICE FOR THE MURDER OF THIS LITTLE ANGEL! Not alone me, a grandmother of 8 beautiful grandchildren. I am requesting all of you, mothers and grandmothers all over the world – PLEASE BOMBARD THE UNITED KINGDOM’S PRIME MINISTER – GORDON BROWN – TO RE-INSTATE THE DEATH PENALTY TO TOTALLY ACQUIRE JUSTICE FOR THE HEINOUS CRIME OF MURDER OF THIS BEAUTIFUL LITTLE INNOCENT ANGEL! BROKENHEARTED GRANDMOTHER! PLEASE FOLKS – LET JUSTICE PREVAIL! NUALA.
So, she’d remove children from their parents…on the basis of their eyes…
Real party of liberty, there.