The only people responsible for the wee lads death are his parents.
Saying they are evil isn't helpful, wanting them to swing by the necks makes us as base as they have been even though it's understandable
What needs to happen is to examine and answer the question 'why'. We really, really need to understand why a parent would do this to their own offspring, because until we understand why, we can't stop this from happening.
Before anyone jumps on me, I want to make it clear that of course the parents need to be punished, but if we (as a society) really want this to stop, then we need to look at the causes of infanticide. Because once we find the cause(s) then money needs to be put into stopping it. If parents are addicts, then they need to be given compulsory rehabilitation and only monitored visitation rights.
If there is domestic abuse, then the abusive partner needs to be lobertermised rehabilitation and anger management and only allowed supervised access. If parents are living in squalor then only when the house is an acceptable standard of cleanliness are they allowed to have their child at home with condition of daily followed by weekly, then fortnightly etc visits.
Social work needs a much bigger budget and social workers should always always do double up visits, 1) for their own safety 2) two sets of eyes are better than one 3) a devious manipulative character may 'pull the wool' over one set of eyes, less over two 4) being able to discuss a joint visit with a colleague is a very useful 'tool', especially if one of the workers has that 'nagging doubt' but can't quite say why. 5) if there is any teeny weeny concern about a child's welfare a social worker should have the right to enter, 6) by having two social workers, there is less chance of a 'bad' social worker abusing their power (and unfortunately there is always going to be a bad apple in every profession, giving the profession a bad name, so I'm not having a dig just stating a fact).
I don't know how much training a family judge has, but do they ever have to do visits with a social worker?
I don't want to make this a political argument but the labour government understood that getting in there to the early years has a really big impact in later years. We know this, the evidence is clear, we really need to put much much more money into the first five years of a child's life. We need much more support for parents and their child. Ironically, though, as our society becomes more insular so we risk alienating and isolating a very, very vulnerable group: mothers. How many mothers have suffered as a result of lockdown birthing and having absolutely no groups to attend with their newborn? How many mothers are frightened of leaving an abusive partner? How many mothers are suffering from postnatal depression, but are too frightened to get help? How many mothers or fathers for that matter are struggling to bond with their child? How many times do we hear and see parents being criticised for this that or the other?
We can stop so much of these awful events, but only if we are willing to look at the cause and spend money of the prevention. Prevention and cure.
But demonising and blaming, is just useless, ineffective and just causes more issues to be brushed under the carpet (and it's not even that cheap, because surely it costs more to the taxpayer to incarcerate two people, than it would to pay for the services that might have prevented this, and saved a little boy from such terrible suffering).