to not be able to stop thinking about that poor little girl in today's news?

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You know, the 3 year old who was so neglected, that she died of pneumonia and malnutrition and according to the coroner, knew that she was unloved, unwanted and not cared for. She would stare out of the window of the room that was locked in hoping that someone would help her.

COME ON MUM'S - LET'S MAKE A STAND. WHO WILL JOIN ME IN PLEDGING TO NOT BEING BOTHERED ABOUT BEING CONSIDERED TO BE NOSY OR A BUSYBODY? WHO WILL JOIN ME IN COMMITTING TO SPEAKING OUT WHEN WE THINK THAT A CHILD IS BEING MISTREATED?

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i know....i get that panicky knot under my sternum if DS is hungry and he has to wait a few minutes for his food
it's unreal

hungry.

oh god.

the girls give their spare coppers to our landlords in Uganda, where they work for VSO, to help feel all those hungry children.

how can anyone do that to a child?

those teachers over there go without in order to give their students - many of them orphans from the crisis in Rwanda in the last decade - more to eat.

I am joining you all in how sick I feel. I wish I could personally mother all these poor children. I thank whatever god there is every day that my son has me and my DH who simply adore him. But I wish I could do that for more children. It is truly sickening. I would fight, kill, starve, anything to provide my child with not only the necessities but also the little joys that make him happy and proud of himself. I wish I could go into heaven right now and tell that little girl how precious she is. Words fail me.

I often think, I wonder how women who are in deprived areas/countries cope when their little children cry from hunger. I feel a physical pain each time my son cries or wants food or water or whatever. I couldnt stand for him to suffer.

That had me in tears too.
Why not just give the kids up if you don't want them. Whats wrong with that mother and father? Did they get kicks out of it?

I have a 3yo DD and cannot stop thinking of the suffering of that little girl, it's haunting me.

How the fuck can you carry a child for 9 months, give birth to her, have her in your life for 3 years then know she is in a stinking beetle infested room starving to death and OMG the poor baby that survived?

Those parents do not deserve to live on this earth

Really hard to read. Very sad.

Agree that I get stressed if I think dd is cold or hungry for a second. What was wrong with these people?????

I read this today. She was in Sheffield living above a pub. It mentioned she was well looked after before the step father came on the scene but he was away for the last week of her tragic life. How can this still happen in todays society?, so sad. It affected me.

People worry about being busy bodies nowadays but people should look out for little innocent children then something can be done about neglect.

i think we should al be involved in social servises as too many tings are getting hidden, i would quite happily let my children speak to social servises as i have nothing to hide.
that por girl, and the one the other ear who was burnt by her mum and dad kicked punched.
how cany anyone hurt such innocent people

Lessons will be learnt.

It won't be proved who did what.

Mum brainwashed by step dad.

5 minutes in prison

Hate to be so daily mail but these 'parents' dont deserve to be treated as human beings by the courts because they cannot be deemed as such to do that to a child.

So so awful. I cried too. But if you do report something, the response may not be at all what you expect. I've actually contacted ss about children, and twice I've been accused of being racist (one was a dirty, skinny, sad-looking Gipsy child at the station every day with a baby in her arms, begging, who told me her mother drank and slept all day in her caravan - apparently I didn't understand their 'culture') It wouldn't stop me in future, as I'm one of nature's busybodies (!) but it was a shock and, to me, explained pretty clearly why these cases continue to occur.

This is why so many people are put off. But if SS cannot see the signs and lets face it they get it wrong then how can laymen be expected to get it right. I'm glad that this wouldn't put you off.

It's a minefield and very sad that even the authorities cannot work on these poor children that fall through the net. There must be standard practices put into place. e.g health visitors, then nursery. If a child is not present then follow it up!

the poor child. may she find peace and love now. and i hope the sick bastards rot.

This is truly awful, so tragic to think of the poor little girl standing at the window willing someone to help her and resuce her, and no one came.
Cannot understand how this can happen.

This should not be in AIBU......

Well, we all think we are living in a civilised society but when we read this we know it to be untrue.

I am reporting this thread. It should not be in Aibu. I block news because these kinds of theads are there, where they belong. And not in AIBU.

I read that the step father has been charged with neglect as he was away for a couple of days working for 12 hours so couldn't have been there when she died. Apparently the mother couldn't know what she did would lead to the child's death.