Another child killed due to mother's abusive partner

[JoanThursday1972]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12037929/Boy-nine-died-beaten-belts-held-cold-bathwater-court-hears.html

Not another one. Will we ever see the end of this type of story? I doubt it. Don't let the press DARE label this thug Alfie's "stepfather".

I hope they get done for murder. Both of them. Not the soft sentences they give the mothers.

And yet anytime I or any other single mother mention staying single for safeguarding reasons a dozen people jump in with you matryr/so extreme. I hope they throw away the key. Poor little angel.

That poor little boy to be battered to death by a pair of monsters. No excuses either of them but surely any right thinking mother would put her child above a cruel and violent boyfriend.

Wait for the onslaught....."oh well she was vulnerable as well"
"She was probably scared of him" and on and on
I call bullshit

poor little boy. no words

This is horrendous. I don't understand how anyone could do this to a child.

he was forced to stand outside in the middle of the night and have cold water thrown over him? WHy didn't anybody see?

But 'lessons will be learned', I bet.

Social services and, more to the point, the government that fails to fund them sufficiently NEED to be held to account. Yet another child failed.

Poor little love - l hope they get tortured to death in prison.
I could cry reading this

I can't even read it, that poor darling boy.

Monsters, the pair of them.

It's not just a man. His mother was an appalling piece of work.

Tbh I don't know why I clicked on this thread because I can't read the link, too hormonal, but my god these fucking monsters.
It is getting worse isn't it? It's so fucking frequent.

It said neighbours saw but I couldn't just watch, I would physically go and get the child, bring him in my house and call the police.

The mother was known to SS because of her previous partner. Her first instinct upon the death of her child was to lie about her partner to protect him.

Some people just cannot put children first.

I absolutely agree!

I have been told this too.

This poor little boy. Every single person in his life let him down...

May he RIP.

me too. What were they thinking? ( the neighbours)

So sad. Poor little boy.
Rest in peace

These people should be hung. Prison is too good for them.

Hopefully they'll receive the treatment they truly deserve in prison. Neither of them is worth the air they breathe.

It's called the Cinderella Effect. Children living with a step parent are 40 to 100 times more likely to be murdered.

Ds was 9 when I married dh.

But we had been together since ds was 3. Ds didn’t know dh existed until he was almost 6 and we slowly introduced them over the next two years, then lived together at weekends for another year. So six years in total before me and ds lived with dh.

It’s possible to take things very slowly and keep the child’s best interests at the centre of things, always.

And if he had even looked at ds the wrong way, he would have been out the door.

That poor little boy.

I can’t read the article. I just want someone to tell me when they’ve both been convicted of murder and sent down. Forever.

That poor little angel. I can't bear to think about it.

Lots of people did, and repeatedly reported it.

I don't doubt it, but do you have a link ?