How could this have happened?! Trigger warning - child / animal neglect

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This made me so angry and upset. How and why can this happen??

This couple claimed 7k per month in benefits yet seriously neglected 7 children and 36 dogs. This is disgraceful. One child had to have all their teeth removed under general anaesthetic as they were so decayed. Another child discouraged from attending school and made to look after the others. A child found covered in animal faeces next to a deceased dog. Utterly heartbreaking and absolutely infuriating at the same time.

I don't know what I'm posting for, I'm just upset and angry. Why did this happen? They can't exactly claim poverty on 7k per month, so why were these children not provided for?? Are they just selfish / evil people?!

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/07/couple-paid-7k-month-benefits-left-children-living-filth-36/

Is there a non paywall link?

Yanbu, disgusting excuses for humans. No doubt someone will come along to tell you that this poor mum must be in an abusive relationship and doing the best she can. Disgraceful how they could be receiving that amount and just keep breeding.

No, just no.

This has been posted before and was a thinly veiled benefit bashing thread.
The fact you have mentioned the amount this family claimed twice is a sure sign of that.

www.itv.com/news/meridian/2022-11-07/couple-jailed-after-7-children-found-living-among-rotting-food-and-animal-faeces

Absolute rubbish!!!!

It's a how the fuck can anyone neglect their children to this extent thread. It's appalling!

The amount they claimed is relevant because there's no way they were living in poverty - so why??? Why has this happened when they clearly had the means to make these poor children's lives so much better?

@gottachangeforthisone

Involved how?

Hardly benefits bashing. The OP is raising concerns about how the children's welfare could be so neglected. How does this pass under the radar?

Is it though? I think it's the amount of income rather than the source of income that makes it incredibly hard to understand the situation here.

@UpTheAnte

Exactly! I don't care if they gained their income from the state or from their 120k a year jobs. Why and how did this happen when they were able to provide so much better?!

Regardless of any benefits discussions how did she only get a suspended sentence and a 5 year animal ban?
if the entire situation was down to him then he only got 18 weeks in jail. That seems insanely light for the damage and neglect of those kids and dogs? You get more then that for fraud.

Where this family on social services radar? Who reported them?

Wealthy people abuse and neglect children too.

There are complete and utter arseholes in every strata of society.

Money doesn't make a shit parent a good parent. This is obvious, surely?

Gotta how had services failed to recognise this situation earlier? The children must have either been absent from school or obviously filthy and neglected.

and did neighbours not hear the dogs?

Oh shoosh. The OP has mentioned the couple's income because it is relevant when looking after children and pets.

The telegraph article says that one of the children didn't even know what shampoo and conditioner were - she had to be shown how to wash her hair by the social worker. She also had matted clumps of hair. I just can't even fathom 😥

How the hell did they only get that sentence AND animal ban

Just totally sickening and wrong 😪

Only 18 weeks in prison? Fucking disgraceful.

It's a miracle all their children survived, the article mentions the police found one child in nothing but a soiled nappy being trampled by dogs.

18 weeks!

Don’t be a dick

Yes, on the other thread it was deemed "relevant" as it was implied only people on benefits abuse their kids/pets.

I give it a couple of pages before someone says £7k it is too much, and that there should be "checks".

They need to be reported for SS to step in. No one reported this quick enough

@XenoBitch I didn't see the other thread but if you did and this one's not for you, you might want to hide it instead of telling everyone how this one will go.