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'Stressed' father batters his 2 yr old daughter

244 replies

Lovecat · 04/06/2007 20:04

story here

Poor little girl. It says he's been sectioned, shame he couldn't have gotten help sooner...

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Enid · 04/06/2007 20:05

yes saw this

cant quite understand why it is news

after all if the nspcc is to be believed this happens every day

poppy34 · 04/06/2007 20:06

Its a dreadful story but unfortunately as enid says all too common.

Fact he is some kind of city type might be something to do with why its hit the headlines

Beauregard · 04/06/2007 20:09

Don't mean any offence but was it really necessary to put such a graphic thread title?

Otter · 04/06/2007 20:09

yeah too common

i can understand why it is news

bollox to celebs - this should be news

Beauregard · 04/06/2007 20:10

I am probably just feeing oversensitive tonight .

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Lovecat · 04/06/2007 20:13

Sorry, pfnm, didn't mean to cause any offense . Was on the front page of my evening paper and I was horrified to read it.

Yes, sadly it is all too common, but no reason why it shouldn't be reported as a big deal...

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Songbird · 04/06/2007 20:13

poppy's right, if it had been a heroin addict on the dole, where's the 'story' in that?

SueBaroo · 04/06/2007 20:14

2 yrs old horrid.

UCM · 04/06/2007 20:14

I am concerned about the blaming his job for it. What a croc of shite and no reason to beat his kid up, don't care how stressed he was.

Enid · 04/06/2007 20:15

yes I particularly loved the million pound flat

obv if your flat isnt worth a million pounds the fact you batter your kids is just a big yawn

ekra · 04/06/2007 20:16

I thought the same UCM. As if being under pressure at work means people are liable to beat their children

SueBaroo · 04/06/2007 20:16

Yep, there's no excuse. We've all been stressed, and I confess that the children can sometimes wind you up no end. But you just. don't. ever.

Hit a pillow. A child isn't a punchbag.

Ulysees · 04/06/2007 20:20

blimey exdh is going under worse stress than that but wouldn't hit the kids. poor little love
Sadly there are too many of these stories.

fannyannie · 04/06/2007 20:20

here is the BBC link (prefer their reporting personally).

Cant' help wonder that if this had been reported as wealthy mother (working of course) sectioned after battering her daughter some people on here would be saying "must have PND/Depression - where was the help for her etc etc etc".

Of course it's bl**dy awful, I doubt anyone would deny that, but (and I'm no expert on this so stand to be corrected) people don't get sectioned for nothing....

CountessDracula · 04/06/2007 20:22

The stressed thing looks like journo-spec to me, I read the story and there was nothing to back it up - he may be schizophrenic or something.

a million pounds ain't a lot for a flat in London these days

PinkTulips · 04/06/2007 20:22

i'm going to be jumped on here but if the mother was in the room did she do nothing to stop him? You'd have to knock me unconcious first to get to my daughter and even then i'd do my best to claw his eyes out first so that he'd be so mad at me he'd forget about my daughter and kick me instead.

agree with enid, why does it take a rich person or a celebrity doing this for it to be front page news... it should be front page news every time it happens so that people realise what a huge problem it is for society and something can be done to protect these kids.

sickening

mumemma · 04/06/2007 20:24

I read this at work and it was a struggle not to start crying. I felt physically sick. I wasn't sure whether to post it on here as I thought it might just upset people. Poor girl - the mother must be in a terrible state - apparently she was heard screaming and I'm sure she did try and do something.

It's news because this is someone successful and intelligent who doesn't fit the stereotype. However, the Evening Standard have changed the story throughout the day to emphasize the stress thing. He's been sectioned - not sure it's quite as simple as 'stress'.

mumemma · 04/06/2007 20:25

Evening Standard being sister paper to the Daily Mail, of course.

ScaryHairy · 04/06/2007 20:25

I doubt the father is blaming his job (he's sectioned so not giving quotes to the Evening Standard). I don't think people get sectioned because they are stressed and having a strop, nor do otherwise "normal" people batter their children because of a bad day at the office.
It's very sad for all of them, but if I was the mother the last thing I would want is a load of press intruasion at a time like this.

SueBaroo · 04/06/2007 20:26

I agree with the OP. It is a great shame he couldn't have received appropriate help sooner.

WK007 · 04/06/2007 20:30

Definitely no excuse for doing that. Am I too cynical or does being sectioned sound like an easy way for someone in his lofty position to avoid jail or at least cut down the time he could be up for if the police take it that far?

Like others say, being stressed is no reason. I've had horrible days in the past where I've, for example, banged the table until my wrists killed but could never imagine turning that on dd.

JodieG1 · 04/06/2007 20:30

Poor child NO excuse to be blaming work either or being stressed. I'd think the same had it been the mother and also agree that noone would hit my child before getting through me first.

lisad123 · 04/06/2007 20:34

What I find dtrange is that the mother didnt ring the police, it was the neighbour! If my DH started laying inot my DD (not that I belive he would) you would have to pull me off him or the knife out of hi
I think its a load of rubbish blaming his job, and more report seems spent on saying about his job and money!!!

L

ekra · 04/06/2007 20:40

"When I saw the news story about what had happened I couldn't believe it was him. You can see people under that much pressure suddenly flipping, but Alberto seemed so normal."

I was responding to this quote.

paulaplumpbottom · 04/06/2007 20:41
Sad