Mikaeel Kular's mum pleads guilty

[Groovee]

[Warning added by MNHQ: please note that the content of the link given here is very distressing]

Rosdeep Adekoya has pleaded guilty to Culpable Homicide of her son Mikaeel in January of this year.

Yes, she knew she had a problem but we are all free to choose how we react to situations and she CHOSE to abuse him over the course of days and days and ultimately killed him. I can totally understand how any parent can feel pushed to the limits but this was not a one-off, it was sustained abuse. Makes me sick.

If she's of the mind to google 'how to hide bruises' and the rest of it, she could have easily either gotten help or given him up for adoption. I know that's making it sound easy, but it's much easier than beating him up, disposing of his poor little body and having to cover it all up.

In cases like this I just can't understand why she wouldn't have just left him

*in a hospital, church, temple or school. In social services reception.

And there's a HUGE gulf between not loving your child and killing them. I don't love my neighbours kids but I'd never treat them with anything but kindness.

That poor poor dear boy.

What an evil woman. No excuses, no sympathy. You don't have to love someone to seek medical help for them. Strangers call ambulances all the time.

I hope the other children are safe away from
Her.

I'm not going to read the link as I have no need to know the grim details, my sympathy is reserved for Mikaeel and his siblings.

I hope that little toot had some happiness in his short life. May he Rest in Peace.

I don't feel sorry for her at all.
I DO hope she gets the help she needs though.
She is young. If she doesn't get that help what will happen when she gets out?
I don't want her being tortured in prison. I don't want her to rot.
I just don't want her to do it again.

I don't usually buy into the 'if this was a man you wouldn't be saying that' thing that always pops up on these threads but in this case I think it is true.

She was cruel to that little boy and he suffered sustained abuse. It wasn't an end of the tether, second of madness.

I hope she can face up to what she has done and be rehabilitated so she can continue to be some sort of mother to her other children, in what ever form that takes. They are the ones that matter. They need to be able to deal with this and having a mother who can admit to her guilt, be genuinely remorseful and find some way of looking inside herself to see why she committed such a heinous act will help them one day.

I don't feel sorry for her at all she was beating him for being sick and then carried on doing so then she tried to conceal it all. She had the mental capacity to plan to take his body whilst dropping her dd at nursery- this was days not minutes or hours at any point she could have picked up the phone and asked for help she didn't.
That poor child my heart broke reading about him being beaten for being sick he must have been so scared and confused

I read a different report to that link... It have time and place of death, the place being the woods??

'I hope she can face up to what she has done and be rehabilitated so she can continue to be some sort of mother to her other children, in what ever form that takes.'

I share everyone's sense of shock and horror and outrage but I don't agree with this. She should never ever be allowed to have any sort of even vaguely parental role to her other children. They need protection from someone who could do this to their little brother. When they are older, they can decide if they want to have contact with her own their own terms. But I'm afraid as a mother she has completely blown it, as far as I'm concerned.

Oh, poor, poor, boy.

When I posted the link, it only had that she had a plea of guilty. It changed in the time I've been out. I apologise to anyone who has been offended but I posted in the news instead of chat.

Poor, poor little boy.

I suppose that the success of 'seeking help' would rely on the mother being within the realms of normal ethical concern, like you or I. 'Seeking help', does not, as far as I know, make an 'evil' person 'good'.

Belief in the presence of 'evil' is an unfashionable one at the moment, but I take cases such as this as evidence of its existence. Only a truly evil person could do what this woman did.

She doesn't need help. She needs a whole life sentence.

Poor, poor boy

That article does make for very difficult reading. To beat a child in such a horrific manner and not seek any treatment for their injuries defies belief really.

I can't imagine how any mother can treat their child in such a depraved and despicable manner.

Just makes me want to cuddle my own children......

lotta whatever we think of her, she is a mother to other children.
They will be traumatised and confused by the loss of their mother and their little brother.
If that little boy had been removed from her just before she killed him he would have still missed her and wanted to go back to her.

It is unlikely she will be able to have custody of her children but unless they are adopted she will still be their legal mother and even if they are all adopted there should be some sort of contact, even if its letterbox.

Not for her good but for the welfare of the children.
Its not about the adults and how they feel about what she did or what should happen to her. It is about the welfare of the children.

Yes they should be protected from harm but they should not be deprived of what they need in order to punish her.

There is also nothing to stop her having more children later on. The baby might well be removed but it won't be automatic. It is in everyone's interest that the work is done with her.

I doubt that it will be though. I don't think there are the resources.

Jeez... More children??

She isn't very old is she? I had a skim but I didn't want to read the details.
It depends how long she gets inside.

I hope her kids are with family or really excellent long term foster carers and they get to see their siblings.

Poor baby,

All my sympathy is for the 3 yo who was punched and beaten over 4 days for 'overeating', then stuffed in a suitcase and dumped in a wood.
She can rot in hell.

I can only speak for myself, but I 'expected' to read that the mother was fundamentally loving, pushed to the end of her tether by some external factor, snapped, panicked and then her actions. Particularly as she was not charged with murder.

Yes me too.

Early thirties, I'm hoping she is v old when she is released.... Too old for more dc at least

She was originally charged with murder I think, but has accepted the 'lesser' charge.

I hope she can face up to what she has done and be rehabilitated so she can continue to be some sort of mother to her other children, in what ever form that takes

I can't imagine why any child want to go within five hundred miles of a 'mother' who bet her three year old to death over several days (said as the offspring of a mother was neglectful but not wilfully cruel).

Christ - The story has most definitely changed since I posted saying I hope she got the help she needed. I still hope she gets help but I cannot believe the level of violence towards that poor child and am glad that her children will be free of her.

She is 34. Who knows what the sentence will be.

I do feel for the other children. 3 of them still have their dad in their lives but one has only her siblings as her dad was part of her life. Their whole world has been turned upside down.