This is so, so sickening. What kind of world are we living in where this kind of thing just keeps on happening?
I know we have (or did have, I don't know if it still exists), child line, but for those children too young to speak for themselves, there ought to be more intervention where any kind of abuse is suspected. Or compulsory parenting classes for those people whom SS think present a risk.
Surely a supposedly civilized society can come up with something better than this shambles of a system which results in children being killed.