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

Absolutely sickened my this today, what a gorgeously little girl. How could anyone want to hurt a child. The amount of people who can't have children and would of treasured that baby 😡 I'm with previous posters bring back the death penalty for child killers.

I wish children were only given to people who deserve them.

How a mother could stand by and watch someone repeatedly assault their child is beyond belief. The death penalty is too good for them. I wish they'd rot in jail but they won't. They'll be out in under 5 years maybe less.

I just did

Sobbed my heart out reading this. Truly wonder what is wrong with people. How can so many people be this evil to do this to small children

Agree. Some women seem to have to have a man…any man, to validate their existence. Why?

A toddler was found dead under a pile of blankets in the shower after being subjected to "escalating brutality" at the hands of her mother's lover, a court heard.
Former nursery worker Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell wept in court as jurors heard her daughter, Isabella, two, died in a temporary housing unit in Ipswich. Prosecutor Sally Howes KC said the toddler was a "healthy, contented, well-cared for little girl" before she suffered harrowing abuse when Gleason-Mitchell struck up a relationship with Scott Jeff, both 24.
Jurors at Ipswich Crown Court heard little Isabella was dead for several days before her body was found under blankets in a shower. She had suffered "extensive external traumatic injuries to the soft tissues of the body including head, neck, torso, limbs" and other areas. Injuries to her pelvis were consistent "stomping or kicking" but Gleason-Mitchell "stood back, watched, did nothing and allowed this to happen", the murder trial heard.

How many more, before something changes? So many cases where it's a violent male and the mother does nothing. There's another thread currently on mn where the mother remarries and the new DH moves in his violent DC to the detriment of the OP's own DC, then does not very much except expect her to take care of the situation.

I despair.

I think the demon is often cocaine, or cannabis, or heroin. Causes misery from start to finish for everyone involved except the top man who makes the money.
Both the adults tested positive and little Isabella had cocaine in her system and cannabis showed in her hair.

Sometimes I wish I could feel like some of the posters on here: truly shocked at how the mother could do that to their own child.

Sadly, I've seen and heard about way too many mothers and fathers abusing their own children in real life.

People my age have told me stories about their mothers that are just truly horrendous. I wouldn't even repeat them here. Oh i will repeat one that I heard that is on the milder side of abuse.

I've heard way way worse than this from other people, about their parents. But I dont even want to write those ones.

I was on a meditation retreat recently, and the woman there told me that her mother used to tell her over and over that she was the ugliest baby she'd ever seen and that she never wanted her. She said that to her own daughter.

I know very well at this stage, that when a woman gives birth to a child, it doesn't mean that she will automatically love that child.

Some mothers are absolutely amazing and kind mothers, but you definitely have the spectrum with the really cruel mothers on the other end.

This is just beyond horrendous, it’s unimaginable.

And for the police who came to the scene and discovered Isabella

They need the same doing to them - no less.

Agree.

I think the introduction of the ‘step parent’ here is paramount and I use the term step parent here very loosely as the man introduced into Isabella’s life was a drug affect, homeless and unemployed. Not exactly someone I would feel comfortable even having my child around never mind entrusting their care to. But I have seen even within my own family the speed in which some single mothers invite men into their homes. In my case, the mother was very happy raising their children independently, talked about having no concept of brining another man into their home etc. Flash forward a year a man who doesn’t have access to his own children is now living with said parent and encroaching on all areas of wider family life. Mother seems oblivious to his lack of relationship with his own children and blames it on the ‘difficult previous partner’. Next time we are having a chat, I am going to ask outright, was there any domestic abuse. People have to be more upfront in tackling this.