I am currently watching my young cousin become depressed and miserable due to treatment of her at home, we have called social services who said they can do nothing, short of dragging her out of the home and "kidnapping" her, there is not much we can legally do. While it is no way comparrable to this horrible crime, SS need to DO more, stop thinking that things will be "okay" when things are clearly not right.
I treasure my daughter, and I pray that if I EVER got into a situation like this little girls mum and SS sat by and did nothing, that SOMEBODY would forceably take my child away from me because I love her too much to let her be treated like that, even if I couldn't see it at the time. And what makes me feel so sad about this case is there was nobody who loved her deeply enough to do anything. And even worse, neighbours who did their best to help were ignored, the poor neighbours must feel bloody awful, even if they did everything in their power
I hope that Gordon Brown takes the legal limit on canabis to a no tolerance. I know somebody who suffers from schizoprenia caused from years of "harmless cannibis smoking"