RIP little Isabella (TW)

[TheTwirlyPoos]

Another horrendous case of a toddler being abused and killed at the hands of her mother's boyfriend whilst her 'mother' did nothing. The details are horrendous.

RIP little girl. You deserved so very much more

I often wonder about this. I don't know the statistics about child abuse and deaths like this but definitely seems much more common now. It's like we are living in the end times and literal demons walk among us.

Sorry if that's offended anyone, I am Christian so it helps me to frame things like this.

The abuse that little girl endured as well. Beaten for being afraid of certain things, for not eating properly, dad wanted to bath her alone, would sneak into her room in the dead of the night, next day new bruises would appear, bite marks. Then covered up in felt tip pen and long sleeves in the peak of summer.

and social services didn’t take her, they let the mother keep her. The little girl even asked to never go back home. Mum had another baby by the dad (she was obsessed with him) and she still has the girl…

my outside view of ss they seem to intervene and throw the hammer down on the most minor infractions yet in clear cases of abuse and facilitating abuse turn a blind eye

I think to brand them as literal demons, at least in my mind, sort of abdicates them of responsibility, demons having no soul and being inherently evil, so acts of abuse are just how they are…

I'm so very sorry for what happened to you. You deserved so much better.

It doesn't have to be a repeated cycle.

I wish you every happiness in the future 💐

Sorry, but a myriad of arguments can be put forth.
Yes, such people are horrendous, but why bring society down to their level?
Such sweeping statements about the death penalty are oft rehashed by those who have no idea what can cause a person to behave in the way they do

I read the headline and was shocked and deeply saddened. I honestly think I will have to stop the reading the news as every day there is so much awfulness happening in our world. Isabella deserved so much more in life. I was also aghast to read that the defendants were camping with the child on a beach for two weeks and police visited and just gave advice!

I feel that way about stuff too. It feels like the end times.

That really is just appalling.
All one can do is to report - but if social services do nothing? what else can a person do?

It is really sickening.

One of your lines chills my heart and brings tears to my eyes..

''and social services didn’t take her, they let the mother keep her. The little girl even asked to never go back home.''

A social worker who worked in child protection but emigrated {the job was just so emotionally draining} said that they did have children who pleaded that they not be sent home.

I don't know how it works...but a single child protection worker clearly wasn't able to prevent this.

I have not seen this on the news, I've just googled it, and as everyone has said it's horrendous and incomprehensible. The 'mother' is worse than the scum bag that killed her in many ways. I'd flight tooth and nail for my dc no matter who or what ever tried to harm them, she, that excuse for a human, stood back and allowed her most precious thing in the world to be beaten and killed. I can't even begin to understand, they both want putting down but no doubt she'll get off with a slap on the wrist, it's infuriating.

Don't know about the numbers and whether this kind of heinous act has increased, but there is definitely a lot more light shined on such incidents nowadays with information at our fingertips.

Being more informed is both a blessing and a curse. "Ignorance is bliss" and all that.

It's just so utterly sad and incomprehensible

There is little comfort to be found in this but it sounds like she had a lovely little life till she didn't, and hadnt experienced abuse from birth like so many wee souls have to endure 😢

I couldn’t finish the article. I look at my two year old daughter and wonder how anyone could be so barbaric to a defenceless, innocent child. I can’t comprehend the pain Isabella must have been in. I hope both those monsters are subjected to the same pain in prison.

How do these evil cunts find each other? I mean the woman clearly didn't give a fuck about her little daughter as she went shopping and boozing while the little girl was dead in her pram.

I often wonder about this. I don't know the statistics about child abuse and deaths like this but definitely seems much more common now. It's like we are living in the end times and literal demons walk among us.

I wonder about this. I'm not mega religious but what some people do seems so far from the realm of normal human behaviour I do wonder if some people are born with some sort of soul missing, or something dark in its place.

You’ll be pleased to know that rates of childhood physical and sexual abuse are declining over time. Childhood deaths attributed to abuse are also declining.

You just have easier access to news stories now than in the past and bad news sells.

It’s easy to forget that the vast vast vast majority of humans are kind and caring when all you read is sadness and evil.

There have been a spate of child deaths recently. It does seem more common. Perhaps the consequences of lack of funding and overstretched resources.

This is horrendous. I cannot get my head around how this can happen and how some patents are so fucking awful.

I just cannot make sense of it at all. It's like my mind cannot think of one single reason why things like this happen.

I don't have children but there's a strong urge within me to protect children. How is it not absolutely hardwired into your brain when it's your own child. I just cannot grasp what the hell is going on that a mother can stand by and watch their child suffer in any way, let alone to this extreme.

Some people shouldn't have children.

@Roundthemoon

yes, I said when I was eight it stopped with me.
And it did.

it’s hard, but we were right, you and me.

I had to google this and wish I hadn't. Poor little scrap, it's just beyond words. I despair.

As for those monsters, I would love to think they would be put down for the good of society, but of course they won't. At the very least they need to be forcibly sterilised and harshly punished for the rest of their lives. RIP little Isabella.

My son is only a few months younger than she was, I can’t imagine how anyone could lay their hands on a child, let alone to the extent of killing them. So so sad.

I also don’t buy into the ‘happy childhood until she met x’ no good mother would ever allow that to happen. She was clearly never a good mother, a good mother does not get brainwashed by ‘love’ to the point of sacrificing their child. Mothers are meant to be fiercely protective, especially single mothers. Her boyfriend probably just reflected who she was, that’s why they got on so well. But I don’t for a second think if she never met him her daughter would be alive. She would’ve met another man just like him, and the ending would’ve likely been the same sadly.

I wondered if there would be a thread here.

Poor, poor little girl. 😢

So many people willing to help and all offers of assistance rejected.

And the reports say she was really happy and well cared for prior to her sf coming on the scene. Just horrific.

Poor little baby. Yet on another thread posters were shot down for saying they wouldn't want a woman who'd chosen her violent boyfriend over her kids to be a nursery worker 🤷🏽‍♀️

There's quite a lot of research that indicates that trauma causes changes which are inheritable (epigenetics). So the abused child of a parent who was also abused as a child will be affected by both inherited traits and the effects of their own abuse.

I'm so sorry for what you went through, and this story is is horrific.

I read somewhere that the highest risk factor for harm towards a very young child is the presence of a step parent figure and so many of these horrendous cases seem to bear this out.

Awful, horrible case, poor child.
But what baffles me is on threads like this everyone wonders why nothing was done, why no one stepped in to help. Then on other threads when someone suggests reporting a parent who’s drunk at school pick up, or whacks a kid in public, or doesn’t feed their child - they’re told to mind their own business, keep their nose out, because parent could be suffering from stress etc.

Child abuse is everyone’s business, and if people stuck their noses in more, there would be fewer cases like this.