Upsetting content - young mother and baby lay dead undiscovered for 'weeks'. Sad indictment of society today?

[Lionessy]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2355234/Mother-27-history-depression-month-old-baby-daughter-dead-home-seen-weeks.html

Of course, assumptions are being made but the poor woman was known to suffer from blinding headaches and had been rushed to hospital on at least one occasion. Nobody checked on her until she had'nt been seen for 'weeks'.

Poor baby may have died of starvation due to mother dying first. What a terrifying thought.

Should we just pass this off as 'these things happen' or should we as a community be more 'nosy' and show an interest in our fellow human beings at the risk of causing upset and being told where to get off.

I just find this unbelievable and very, very scary .

Ok, so what if she decided to stop contact with the father. Still his fault for not finding her sooner? You can't put the blame on people. This is a very unfortunate situation. If she wanted help don't you think she'd ask for it? It's so easy when you have a baby & depression to push everyone away with excuses why you want to be left alone. I'll say it again, it's not your place to judge without knowing facts.

Well until there is some information about what actually happened, it's all "what if", isn't it?

We know nothing, apart from an account from a neighbour, about her, her habits, her relationships etc. And that she was a fairly new arrival, so the neighbour is unlikely to have known her well.

Thank you CalamityJ & TheBody.

It's 2 years ago this month :(

Mum had problems, and I have absolutely nothing to feel guilty about, rationally, although you do by nature - but yes - I will never know how she actually died, or chance to see her afterwards because of the 'delay'
Wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Such a tragedy for this young lady - and FWIW - 6 weeks is a LONG time for a person known to authorities IMHO.

RIP Joanne & Harper.
Such a sad story, it has made me cry

If it was carbon monoxide chances are the baby would have died first as owing to being smaller it would take far less of the poison to fill the system. I doubt the baby starved as neighbours would have heard prolonged crying I expect and would have therefore stepped in sooner.

Where I lived a few years ago I had next to no friends and was hundreds of miles from family who I only spoke to every few weeks I had many issues and depression myself and had anything happened this could very easily have been me. I however was fortunate in that I had a lovely neighbour who always went out of her way to say hello and make small talk and came to know a few of my problems, every time she didn't see me for 24hrs or I had a really off day and didn't open my curtains she would make a point of coming round to check I was ok and nothing had happened to me and my amazing health visitor would pop by if she was in the area, if I so much as missed 1 baby weigh in clinic she would call to the house and if she was not able to get a response would post a little note to say she had been and was worried and just to give her a ring on her mobile to let her know that we were ok and I have no doubt that if she didn't hear off me she would have soon been reporting me as missing, my midwife was exactly the same, if only more were like this. I moved to where I am now and was told if you want to see a health visitor you have to go to the clinic where there are two you aren't even given a designated one, in an area like this where they just don't seem to care I can see how so many serious cases are missed and vulnerable people overlooked.

I really wish I hadn't read that link. So sad.