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

You don't think it is particularly shocking to leave your baby in a drawer for 2 days while you take your other children off to celebrate Christmas?

A community midwife would have noticed if a mother had dropped off the radar.

FGS. She didn't register the birth. Do you really think that someone who would keep a baby in a drawer for 3 years would be fussed about breaking the rule that they have to register a birth?!

It said in one of the reports that the child was unregistered. So must have been delivered at home and immediately hidden.

Why would she have had to register the birth? No one knew about the baby for 2 years and 11 months.

Disgusting, how could you treat your own child like that?

It's not neglect, it's abuse and cruelty.

Two minutes is too long to leave a baby or toddler unsupervised.

However, the fact it was Christmas during those 2 days is totally irrelevant.

Sells stories though doesn't it.

There are no words. I don't think my mind can fully comprehend it.

@CheesecakeTheCapybara

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Ah, so that would explain the lack of a midwife or doctor being involved at the birth. She would have had to have registered the birth though, so someone must have been aware of this child's existence? 🤔"

But she wouldn't have had to register the birth as it was a hidden pregnancy. No one but the mother knew the child existed.

This.

It's why I have so many questions.

Baby born without knowing you're pregnant in a lockdown as a pandemic starts.

Baby clearly has some sort of needs with cleft palate.

Mum spends time researching how to feed her and does this daily.

Other children well cared for and obviously no sign of outward MH issues or I'm sure Her DP would have mentioned it.

I wonder if she went into panic mode and then got so far in she couldn't tell the truth?

Doesn't excuse it in the slightest - but there is clearly more to this than just hiding a child to abuse and neglect them.

Why people are running round in circles trying to excuse or explain the mother's behaviour I have no idea. If a man had done this he would simply be written off as a monster, no nuance.

Bloody hell, that's a hard read.

WTF is wrong with some people. So many people (myself included) would love to have a child but don't and then there's people like this who treat theirs so horrifically. I cannot get by head around her actions.

As previous posters have written, so many children were horrendously abused during Lockdown, the "parents" took full advantage of the schools closing.
This case is sickening, and once read, you can not unread it.

It's not irrelevant as it provides a timeline, care of the partner knowing how long they were out of her house.

Write to the CPS and tell them they should never have mentioned Christmas.
Senior Crown Prosecutor Rachel Worthington, of CPS Mersey-Cheshire, said:
“This child has never had a birthday present, a Christmas present or anything to recognise these days. She’s had no interaction with any of her siblings."

Oh give over. I left my four month old safely in his cot unsupervised for about 5 minutes today while I went to the toilet.

So the partner knew that the baby had been left??

Why didn't he do something about it?!?!

Also:

It is absolutely shocking. I imagine giving birth alone unexpectedly to a child with a deformity during a pandemic induced lockdown was traumatic enough to trigger a major mental health break.
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This doesn't excuse her behavior.

I saw it on ITV news and was the same, I was almost gasping with horror. The report said that the police officers who were involved in the case were crying in court. Profoundly shocking

The birth wasn't registered.

What are you on about? The partner was the one who discovered the baby and called social services.

I don't see anyone trying to excuse the mother

They absolutely are with all the "she must have severe MH problems" posts

If a bloke had done this literally no one would be saying "he must have had mental health issues".

OOf. Shocking. I thought initially it'd be about something else... like a mum had a stillbirth and.... couldn't cope with what happened. Very shocking read

No. He discovered the baby's existence well after that.

Looking back, he realised that not only must the mother have left the child all day when at work, there was one occasion - a Christmas - when they went to his parent's house early on Christmas Eve morning, and did not leave there until the evening of Christmas Day, meaning the child was alone that entire time.