@SinisterBumFacedCat
Of what I have read she had a stable family upbringing but something seems to have triggered her running away from home as a teenager. Before she moved into the flat she lived with her Mum, I wouldn’t be surprised if her mum did the bulk of the childcare. She lived in that flat for only 3 months and left the baby alone 11 times, in the space of 3 months. I don’t know why people are clinging to excuses like she was sex trafficked during those days, when there is no evidence of that or that she was abused by her family. All the actual evidence speaks of someone who was too selfish to care about the well-being of her baby, who probably ignored the kid even when she was there so the child learnt not to cry. I wouldn’t call her evil because it robs her if responsibility. She will be out before she is 30 and will no doubt have another baby to neglect as soon as possible.
She was taken into care at 14 because of child sexual exploitation.
After she gave birth at 16 (due to sexual exploitation) she went to a duster family, then back to her Mum. Then she was moved into the ‘supported accommodation’. Aged 17 with a baby on the child protection register.
I hear the posters who have survived abusive unloved childhoods. Let down by those who should have lived and protected them. And gif knows, why would you want to hear ‘excuses’ that let your own parents off the hook?
But statistically people who have grown up in care / been subject to sexual abuse and other disordered and traumatic neglect do have a higher likelihood of not breaking that cycle. It doesn’t mean that everyone who grew up like that does bad things, far from it. But it’s hard to say that such a childhood doesn’t cause damage, and for some that damage contributes to the fact that they don’t break the cycle.
Kudi was responsible for her baby’s death.
But also she should have had more supervision, and the baby should have been a priority in the authority’s radar. Given that she was in the Child Protection Register from birth.