MrHairyman
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Tiffany Wright, three, was starved to death by her mother, who then left her body in a bedroom for nearly three days. The little girl had not eaten or drunk anything for 20 hours and was found in a filthy bed, in a room infested with beetles. The judge described it as "about as bad a case of child manslaughter as there can be".
Despite the nature of Tiffany's death, the public reaction to the mother who killed her is very different to that directed towards Tracey Connelly. Few, if any, will recognise the name of Tiffany's mother Sabrina Hirst, who was given a 12-year jail sentence for the manslaughter of her daughter in September 2007 - a month after Peter was found dead in his cot in north London
Equally, the names Tina Hunt and James Howson are probably meaningless to most people.
At his home in Doncaster, Howson murdered his 16-month-old daughter Amy just before Christmas 2007, in a manner which has shocking similarities to that of 17-month-old Peter in Haringey. After weeks in which he punched and attacked his child, causing multiple fractures to her arms and legs, Howson inflicted a blow the head and, some time afterwards, put his daughter on his knee and hyperextended her back, breaking her spine in two places.
It was the broken back that killed her before the bleed from the head injury. "The bone was completely dislocated, resulting in spinal shock, rapid unconsciousness – mercifully – and to death," said Mrs Justice Cox.
Tragically, this sort of thing happens scarily frequently. Everything possible needs to be done to prevent and stop it. Surely the way forward is to put as much money, training and support into social services, rather than to demonize them. Anyone know why the knives were/are out for Haringey Council?
Gemma:
So you would rather social workers were not given better training and more support?
Any social worker who has spoken publicly of late, talks about how the rules, guidlines and nature of their jobs, changes every 9 months or so, and they don't get any training.
Surely Social Workers need to be amongst the best paid and best trained civil servants in the country?
Despite the nature of Tiffany's death, the public reaction to the mother who killed her is very different to that directed towards Tracey Connelly. Few, if any, will recognise the name of Tiffany's mother Sabrina Hirst, who was given a 12-year jail sentence for the manslaughter of her daughter in September 2007 - a month after Peter was found dead in his cot in north London
Equally, the names Tina Hunt and James Howson are probably meaningless to most people.
At his home in Doncaster, Howson murdered his 16-month-old daughter Amy just before Christmas 2007, in a manner which has shocking similarities to that of 17-month-old Peter in Haringey. After weeks in which he punched and attacked his child, causing multiple fractures to her arms and legs, Howson inflicted a blow the head and, some time afterwards, put his daughter on his knee and hyperextended her back, breaking her spine in two places.
It was the broken back that killed her before the bleed from the head injury. "The bone was completely dislocated, resulting in spinal shock, rapid unconsciousness – mercifully – and to death," said Mrs Justice Cox.
Tragically, this sort of thing happens scarily frequently. Everything possible needs to be done to prevent and stop it. Surely the way forward is to put as much money, training and support into social services, rather than to demonize them. Anyone know why the knives were/are out for Haringey Council?
Gemma:
So you would rather social workers were not given better training and more support?
Any social worker who has spoken publicly of late, talks about how the rules, guidlines and nature of their jobs, changes every 9 months or so, and they don't get any training.
Surely Social Workers need to be amongst the best paid and best trained civil servants in the country?