Bronson Battersby is on my mind tonight.

[ThirtyFlirtynThriving]

Utterly utterly heartbreaking story. I have a 2 year old and I just can’t fathom.

I have terrible general anxiety’s no health anxiety and one of my worst fears is to die at home while in sole car of my children, they’re so young they wouldn’t know what to do, or what was happening.. they wouldn’t be able to get out of the house alone and the thought of them scared, unable to wake me, crying alone makes me feel sick and awful. Reading about poor Bronson Battersby has really made me think.

The rest of the family must be devastated and given the circumstances and just the small details known from the media that’s something you can never-not think about. How does one get over that kind of grief?!

I hope Bronson is at rest now 🩵

Yes all correct

But many parents dont see their children when they dont live with them

How does that have anything to do with the child's tragic accidental death?

Or are you just taking the opportunity to put the boot in to a mum who has lost her child because you think she's a rubbish parent all round?

So? It's still not her fault he died. Many parents go months without seeing their kids. Years, sometimes. Usually they are male parents which definitely absolves them from responsibility in many people's eyes. The fact that she wasn't having contact with him does not mean she's responsible for his death.

Me to, and I don't even want to eat or drink. Because I remind myself that little boy did not eat. If only's, if that dad before never raised where he kept the snacks. Even if the boy ate nothing, but wafers, a fridge to get into. He'd of been waiting. When the people finally came into the home. I can see hiding knives, but access to foods and drinks. This is my sadness, that he did not have a chance.

There was a large starving dog shut in the kitchen. If he'd managed to access the kitchen, the outcome could have been just as devastating.

So much focus is being placed on the mother, prob because of her comments, but surely Bronson/Kenneth's situation is actually the same as many single parent households – isolated and vulnerable with only 1 main parent

Nobody is arguing with you, you're just not getting the point... Yes, she's a neglectful mother. Just like your DC's father (I assume you're a woman) is either neglectful or dead.

If – touch wood!! – the same thing happens to your kids because you have a heart attack, there's absolutely zero point harping on your ex / DC's dad. Your ex is not really in your kids' lives. In a sense your ex can't really be "blamed" for your kids' hypothetical death. It's just bad luck that the main parent (you, or Kenneth in this case) died.

Anyone know what happened to the dog? Poor thing must have suffered too.

It’s so tragic for everyone involved. The family must be heartbroken.

She's been cared for back to health by a kennels at present. I had an update yesterday to comment how friendly she were, and she's doing really well.

@RowanMayfair I know the circumstances of this poor child is very different, but where there have been cases of horrendous neglect and sometimes death of child down to a mum and a new partner, I do question what the dad has been doing when they suddenly pop up in the media blaming social services etc.

No the mum isn't to blame for Bronson's death, but how could she not have had regular contact with her 2yo?

Sadly bad things happen to children every day- victims of circumstance, the World over.
It's normal to feel sad and shocked when one hears such news stories, and if we particularly 'identify' with a tragic case {Having a child or grandchild of a similar age} it can make it worse.

There are certainly cases that stick in my own mind -Victoria Climbié , Daniel Pelka in particular.
At least Bronson was loved by his Dad, it is a stark lesson to check up on neighbours, and for parents to check on children if separated.