Kaylee-Jayde Priest

[bluewanda]

I’ve just been reading this story and it has brought me to tears - that poor, innocent little girl. How on earth is this manslaughter?! Those two monsters should have gone down for murder. I hope they have a dreadful time in jail.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9865673/Uncaring-mother-23-convicted-killing-three-year-old-daughter.html

@LocalHobo Ahh my bad I stand corrected. As I say, can't even read these stories through fully. But you make a good point, no mention of the father then in that case? Shocking.

@bluewanda

And there’s not even any mention of this on the BBC News at 10, or anything about poor Logan. Just yet another story about holidaymakers being stranded due to Covid. Why?!

sub-judice

they have been charged....so now it goes quiet by law until trials

@Sparklingbrook

This text exchange was particularly horrific-

In a text message exchange on July 24 2020, days before Kaylee's death, Priest told Redfern: "I'm gonna kill her... because she keeps leaving the living room or going in the kitchen, so I've paled (hit) her one and smacked her for shitting in her nappy."

Redfern said: "Good - give her one from me."

Priest replied: "I will, babe."

This story makes me sick to my stomach. Why why why?! I hope the parents get everything that's coming to them. They're vile. No child deserves this. They're so innocent. I'm heartbroken with sadness. Rest in heaven angel 😇😢😢🥺🥺

@Bagelsandbrie

I actually think the whole Covid world has caused so much depression, anxiety and despair financially and in every possible way that a lot of people have just given up caring about their children / families. Of course these things have and will sadly always happen - and I’m not saying that’s the case here- but i think there’s no doubt that the stress of these situations can’t help families already on the edge.

Sorry, no excuses for such vile inhumane behaviour to your own daughter😤😤

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/mum-killer-nicola-priest-alerted-21237466?fbclid=IwAR3JP8wMdQunFsLAlyDjaCa2Gmn5Cuz5IjLcuXht1ak7u6sNN_0NVjuRITA

Nicola's mum reported her to SS

Even if we didn't know the outcome, watching the footage gives you a bad feeling if you knew that was the mother of the child there. No affection/care/ acknowledgment at all. Heartbreaking.

they have been charged....so now it goes quiet by law until trials

@gardeninggirl68 that’s true of the Logan case, but Kaylee-Jayde’s killers have been put on trial and found guilty. It’s been reported by national newspapers today, it should have been on BBC news too IMO.

The way that little girl looks up at her mother, desperate for attention and love This story will haunt me forever.

It's horrifying, poor little girl. My heart also goes out to the emergency services such as the police and medical staff who deal with cases such as this, must be heartbreaking don't think I would be able to separate my emotions and be professional!

Heartbreaking. The text messages are so shocking, wish I could unread it.

I read this earlier and every time I think about it I cry. Poor poor little soul. I just want to gather them up and look after them all.

Another one who snook in to give my 4 year old an extra cuddle tonight

yes, but what more is there to say? we will get the sentencing details then no more......

what we can all do is listen out for our own neighbours children, watch out for friends/family and their children. speak up and report if somethings not right

The court heard little Kaylee's body had 68 new and old injuries. The fact she had survived such abuse may have seen her attackers believe she would recover from the final, fatal assault.

The above is from the Birmingham Mail article - I don’t understand, how could social services have missed this?!

The monster of a mother has another child too, according to the article. I hope that poor little one is safe now.

I feel so unbelievably sad for this poor baby. You can see the way she is looking at her mum in that video for something, anything and being completely ignored. Her poor little life loving the very person that is hurting and ends up killing you, I dread to think all the things she went through. I hope the get life.

There was a thread here recently where the op was outraged that a neighbour asked her about her 2 year olds tantrums. The majority of replies took the view that the neighbour was a nosy busybody who should mind her own business. The op of that thread had posted a few months previously that her husband was abusive, shouted and called her a cunt and made the 2 year old cry.
In light of this tragedy I think the neighbour was right.

@gardeninggirl68 there must be something more that we can do. I feel so helpless

I havent read the full article but saw the video and it's so counter-intuitive to me that the mum doesnt look at her, check shes got out ok (and, I admit it, when my DS esp, was that age I would have been telling him to not touch every surface on the lift - and that was pre covid!!) she doesnt take her hand once.
But the sadder thing is the little girl looks up at mum for attention, and doesnt get any.....but she behaves - walking nicely next to mum, not running about or doing anything silly, trying to get attention...which suggests she knows she might be punished for it.

the sad thing is there will be many kids living their lives like this,social services can only do so much

they are not miracle workers and cannot force a parent to love a child. as long as basic needs are met thats all they look for. too busy, little resource. and they miss things.....baby p as an example......i'm over 50 now and have been seeing cases like this since i was a kid myself. its tragic but its never going to stop.

We need More education for young people, especially girls.
Teach them self esteem and self respect.
Educate them so they can make good choices when it comes to men.
Teach young girls how hard parenting is - especially if you have no partner (or no supportive partner) and are young and potentially lack money / decent accommodation.

It seems like this poor young girl was merely an inconvenience for her “mother” . But she didn’t ask to be born.

And yes to reporting anything that’s not right to social services.

Not all women are 'nice'.
It's not uncommon for women who are with men who turn about to be violent etc have stuff in their background that has meant they don't see it as that odd.
Plenty of male abusers escalate slowly and do things to reduce the woman's ability to see the wood for the trees.

I have no idea about these people they just sound from this info like a pair of nasty fuckers.

I think that informing girls about what's normal, red flags, different forms of control, etc is important.

The boys need to be educated too because in the end it's blokes who commit the majority of violent crime.

Putting it all on girls is only half the picture to my mind.

I always wonder in these sorts of cases whether the mother bonded with the child as a baby. Did she have PND, addiction or a history of trauma that interfered with the process?

Plenty of women struggle to bond/ have pnd etc.

Sometimes people are just horrible sadistic bastards.

@NiceGerbil - 100%, it’s only one part of the puzzle but when I look at my DD I can’t ever imagine doing anything to harm her.

I get that crikey I really do.

Not talking about this case but in general-

The focus is so often on girls/ women protecting ourselves, being taught about this and that

It's rarely about boys- there seems to be an underlying reluctance to consider that. A sort of what can you do.

I don't think that's right.

In this case they both sound like just straight up bastards though.

I agree with you, even the slant on the DM journalism is ‘what a terrible mother’ first and ‘what a bastard he is’ second. Even though statistically it’s more likely that he killed the child.

I wish we understood more about how and why these things happen so we can prevent them.

I wish we understood more about how and why these things happen so we can prevent them
These things happen because the parents themselves have not been properly brought up. They are frequently products of disfunctional, poorly educated families, have experienced violence themselves and have no idea how loving familes operate.
I don't know what the solution is, if indeed there are any solutions.
Compulsory parenting classes, maybe, but then, most people don't need them and those who do would find a way of evading them.
More programmes such as the 'Sure Start' would help, perhaps.
Unfortunately and ultimately, you can't legislate people into genuine love for a child.