What a terrible terrible thing to happen. My heart goes out to every single member of that family.
We don't know what happened. But so many on mumsnet know enough about the relentless caring and truly hopeless powerless feeling of being unable to make it better, to be unable to help your child.
And that's why so many here have deep compassion and join in the grief all this family must be feeling.
My heart goes out to the brave people on this thread who've shared their stories and their heart break. And I have sincere and strong respect for the way people can show compassion and care for the mother, even as we say, it wasn't right.
In the main this thread has filled me with awe and sadness, and a strange kind of hope - that people don't have to flay this woman alive and make her into evil incarnate - but can reserve judgement and not need to find the person to point the finger at in such a sad sad situation.