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BABY P Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Baby P in the news…
THE SUN (front page): “SOCIAL WORKERS NEW SHAME”
When a tortured and murdered baby isn’t shaming enough…
“BABY P GRAN: I WARNED HARINGEY”
Says she: “They didn’t want to know.”
The last photo of blond, blue-eyed Baby P — taken days before he was found dead in his blood-spattered cot
Blonde…
On page 5, the Sun produces a petition. It’s already been written: “All blonde children with blue-eyes should be saved first and…” Or:
“I believe that ALL the social workers involved in the case of baby P, including Sharon Shoesmith, Maria Ward, Sylvia Henry and Gillie Christou should be sacked and never allowed to work with vulnerable children again”.
Meanwhile, Baby P’s mother is free to have more children, and so too his step-dad and lodger Jason Owen. Discuss…
“…I also demand that the doctor involved with Baby P, Sabah Al Zayyat, should lose her job and not be allowed to treat the public again.”
Says the grandmother: “I blame myself.” Can she be banned from being a grandma?
But one local has produced her own petition. Stephanie Biber has plastered a poster to the windows of the Hornsey and Wood Green Labour Party headquarters. The legend runs:
“Sharon Shoesmith you have blood on your hands. Council tax payers of Haringey refuse to pay council tax until Sharon Shoesmith is sacked.”
Says Ed Balls, the swivel-eyed Education Secretary:
“People are asking how these despicable acts of evil can happen in this day and age and in Haringey of all places.”
Yeah, the bucolic splendour of one of the most impoverished, dirty, depressing places in the entire country. If there, then anywhere…
TREVOR KAVANAGH: “Leftie Mafia close ranks over Baby P”
P is for Politics…
WHY did Gordon Brown react so violently when asked in the Commons about Baby P’s shocking death? Was his absurd claim that David Cameron was playing party politics a Freudian slip or a guilty conscience?
I have no doubt the Prime Minister, a loving father, is as horrified as the rest of the world by the way this poor child died. But what we heard and saw on Wednesday was a tribal chief’s fury over an attack on The Family — no matter how justified.
The unforgivable death of Baby P has revealed Labour’s dirty little secret — the arrogance verging on corruption of entrenched Socialism.
DAILY MIRROR (front page): “BABY P: CRISIS SUMMIT”
Officials blamed for not preventing the Baby P tragedy finally got together yesterday to find out why the child was ignored for so long before he died.
Socialism, right?
Posted: 17th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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November 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am
While there has been a chain of bungles and much neglect by complacency from those who should have done much more, I hope we don’t forget the actual perpetrators of the crime.
The mother, the mother’s boyfriend and his brother. I hate to see their blame in all this being diluted by the assorted accusations against various professionals.
November 17th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Oh wow. I have post numbers. I am shaking my tambourine as I post.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
It’s getting there…
November 17th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Anorak
Now can we have single spacing, please.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
But to the story, it seems to me to be following the same mindset that refers every death or injury caused by a lunatic youth who crashes a stolen car whilst the police are trying to stop him, being referred to the Independent Police Complaints Authority.
Why?
These wretched people caused the baby’s death. I know the Social Services might have done more, but why should they actually have to do anything.
The woman had the child(ren). The responsibility is hers. If it is shown that Social Services did not help as much as they might have done, that is a matter of regret, but it does NOT make them responsible.
Just as it did not all those years ago make them responsible for the death of Victoria Climbie, trafficked across the world by her own mother and put in the hands of a wholly unsuitable ‘relative’.
And the mother had the gall to criticise, without anyone in the media taking her on face to face.
November 17th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Yes PeterMac, I’m with you on this.
November 17th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Peter Mac
Ok then , why are they there? how do they justify their jobs? If they don’t have to do anything?
If anyone is ill and goes to a doctor , the doctor usually acts in the patients interest, if he/she doesn’t they are disciplined
But its not their fault we fall ill or are injured
The police when chasing a fool/criminal/idiot who crashes and kills himself are doing their job, if they didn’t give chase then complaints to the Police Authority would be justified.
I think the people who committed the crimes against this child should be thrown to the wolves, but it doesn’t absolve others who could have prevented it
November 17th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
It doesn’t absolve all the others but in the furore to attribute blame to the professionals the three perpetrators of the ‘murder’ are almost being side-lined in responsibility.
The chain of responsibility is long but it starts with the mother. The mother who said the sound of his screams as he was tortured was so upsetting ing she went outside for a cigarette!
Same as with ‘joy-riding deaths’. Its popular now to blame the police for chasing them but maybe if they hadn’t gone off racing in stolen cars in the first place there wouldn’t be a death chase?
November 17th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Not to me they are not, and those bastards can be dealt with I hope by fellow inmates far more successfully than anyone else can deal with them.
I never have blamed the police for car chases that end in death of the driver of the car they are chasing.
But get a load of this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3472664/Father-locked-up-in-cell-for-smacking-son.html