Mum kept baby hidden in drawer for nearly 3 years !!

[benjaminjamesandgraham]

Even Christmas day she was kept in a drawer - oh how can someone be so cruel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz1dv8ly2o

I think that it's one of the most shocking cases of child abuse I've ever read!

She concealed the birth, the baby wasn't registered anywhere.
The visitor was the boyfriend.

The neglect of children and adults with disabilities is happening in many countries though isn't it.

All that footage 2 years ago of those SEND children, teenagers and adults tied up in cots in Ukraine when aid workers went in.

I don't remember Zelenskyy being asked to explain that abuse of his own citizens.

What an evil cunt.

Yes but there were other children in the house. How did none of the siblings hear the newborn baby cry? It's very difficult to comprehend such a situation.

I wonder if, given the birth defects and the lockdown, she gave birth and thought the baby wouldn’t live long, so kept it a secret, but then the baby just kept on living and it became harder and harder to tell the truth - she was incapable of killing the baby and incapable of revealing its existence.

She committed a crime fgs!

Would you say the same if this had been a man?

Thanks for the ITV link. I was confused when I read the BBC article. And just couldn’t get my head around it all. I’m glad that she seems to be in a better and safer place now.

The siblings could have been very young.

Exactly. Especially younger children are always in and out of their parents’ rooms. It just seemed odd that nobody in the household seemed to realise or was the room soundproofed? Like even neighbours didn’t hear a newborn cry? I’m glad that she’s safe now but 3 years is a very long time to be kept hidden away from sunlight, proper nourishment, human interaction, etc. And I don’t think 7 years is enough of a punishment.

Denial of pregnancy and infanticide done in a post birth state can go together. There have been cases of this with mothers who already had other children too. She did not actually kill her baby in this case, but not far off it, and the drawer was a perpetual denial.

One of the most horrific things I've ever read - that poor child

Oh my Goodness.
I had half 'hoped', @benjaminjamesandgraham that the baby was stillborn, and had been kept in the drawer as a 'mummified' body-

But a Live child?

That's beyond horrific.

It's well known even with rescued dogs, that pups born in an enclosure then kept there for a year because they were unsold for whatever reason, have terrible behavioural issues, because all the crucial socialisation periods for them to interact with the World have gone.

How terrible for a human baby, to be so grossly unstimulated, kept in the dark, with nothing to look at, no one to take her out or show her love or care- I doubt this poor child will ever grow into a functioning adult.

The mother probably had severe learning disabilities herself- it's just not normal behaviour to do this- This isn't a doll.

Poor, poor child.

I’m so sorry to read your story. That must be so difficult to come to terms with. The one person you’d expect to be your biggest advocate not caring for you is awful.

This could still mean a very wide range of things.

Children with severe disabilities can still be pushed in a swing and say words. Language is much more complicated and there is a critical window for learning language rather than words.

I don't think we can assume anything about this poor little girl. There is a huge spectrum both in terms of the difficulties she may have been born with and those resulting from her treatment.

She will have missed out on so many developmental stages covering language, extremely limited social skills, physical skills such as crawling, walking, reaching, not to mention eating, chewing, which will have affected her ability to use her mouth and tongue muscles for speech. She will have had no input with hearing and distinguishing sounds and copying them so again her vocalisation will be minimal, her visual development will be limited because her eyes will not have had the opportunity to develop depth perception or the ability to distinguish objects and understand how they relate to each other.

I think there will be improvement over time, but a child’s brain development in the first three years of life is immense, I don’t think it can ever be made up for.

I am so sorry you went through that. The difference is that once the child was born you would not have shut it away for 3 years. You would have done all you could to sneak the child out of the house and get it taken somewhere it could be found it helped. Because you're not a monster.

Its the difference between a terrified teenage mum who dumps her baby outside a doctor's surgery or children's home in the hope that it would be found and a terrified teenage girl who gives birth in secret them throws the baby in a bin or even worse stamps on its head (actually happened not long ago in the forest of Dean, teenager came from a difficult home life because father was terminally ill. Well we have all been scared of our parents rage or disappointment when we have messed up, I get that bit, but stamping on a baby's head? Monster. I bet her parents would have been cross about the pregnancy at age 15 but nothing they did to her (a telling off? A beating?) Would compare to having your head stamped on until you were dead. People like this are either evil or mentally ill.

@oakleaffy the mother had a job, relationships and raised other children - doesn't sound like she was severely impaired.

Because they would have spoken at the trial of the child's mother.

The youngster is now under the care of foster parents - who said for the first few months they cared for her, she never cried or asked for food or water.

Mother hid child in drawer under bed for almost three years in 'wicked beyond belief’ act | ITV News Granada

Some women are just evil. She deserved a lot longer than 7 years.

I am sorry for what you went through with the death of your child 💐and for sharing your own experience of how you felt when you were pregnant during such a difficult time in your life - so as to try to understand how this woman could do something so awful. It was brave of you imo.

In my view, prison will not help anything in this case.

I wonder how her other children are?

I totally agree with this!

Reminds me of the case of Blanche Monnier - kept jailed in a back bedroom by her EVIL, jealous, controlling mother.

Poor Blanche was discovered barely alive after many years.

ITV said the mother was pregnant by an abusive ex partner and she was scared to admit it was his child. No excuse but a bit of context.

I hope the little girl is surrounded by love and goodness for the rest of her life.

Desperately sad.

That's because it's a Soviet Union hangover, all the more reason to help them transition to a more Westernised civilised society, which is also what they want. 50% of the population is homophobic too. Time to move on.