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

She was a terrible mother though. She was the one who was supposed to care and love and protect and nurture her child. Instead she invited a stranger in to help her torture her child. That’s why there is an extra layer of scrutiny placed on her behaviour.

This story has broken my heart (and I’m not one for getting upset at the news).

Distressing to an extreme.

Poor child.

I might have more understanding if mothers were forced to keep a child they didn’t want but people have options don’t they? Fostering? Adoption? If Kaylee-Jayde was too much trouble for her then she could have given her to people who would have cared for her?

I’m interested in the grandmother who has been quoted in news articles as being heartbroken. I guess she had no idea what was going on.

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

Because she was the MOTHER. She owed the upmost duty to that child. She should have done EVERYTHING in her power to protect her. Whoever physically killed her, the “mother” is responsible in every single parent way for her death.

Agree with @WhisperedWords.

I’m interested in the grandmother who has been quoted in news articles as being heartbroken. I guess she had no idea what was going on.

@TheNewBlack she reported her daughter to social services apparently, but they appear to have been easily fobbed off.

• not sure where the extra parent in the last sentence came from

Because she was the MOTHER. She owed the upmost duty to that child. She should have done EVERYTHING in her power to protect her. Whoever physically killed her, the “mother” is responsible in every single parent way for her death.

This, 100%. Absolute monster, I hate her with every fibre of my being.

@bluewanda Thank you for clarifying. Heartbreaking that this happened.

I read this last night and felt shocked to the core afterwards. I just couldn’t sleep thinking of that little girl in the video, trotting along into her home, unaware of what was about to happen. It’s so upsetting. That pair are monsters and I hope if they legal system can’t suitably punish them, whoever is waiting for them in prison will do!!

The bit that got me was that she was clearly long dead by the time paramedics got there. So probably for several hours. So even in her last hours, probably in agony (it would be pretty painful to die from injuries), the mother didn’t ring for an ambulance. Only when she realised she was well and truly in the shit did she call for help…to help herself, not the child. It is completely horrific what that child must have gone through in those final moments. I just hope it was quicker than I suspect it might have been.
I hope they have an absolutely terrible time in prison, but I suspect they will both never accept that this was their fault and spend the time feeling hard done by and that they don’t deserve to be locked up.

@NiceGerbil

It is horrifying. Poor little tot.

I know it's the DM but the reporting bothers me.

She was obviously an abusive mother because she looked in the mirror and at her phone while waiting for a lift?

The police officer quoted puts the full responsibility on the mother.

I think those things are not great.

Is there any mention of SS involvement? Reports? I don't know if the neighbours reported.

Tiny children keep getting killed. Over and over. Maybe add a society we need to get over the feeling reporting is interfering?

I mean I don't know. It's just so frequent. And I imagine they don't all get reported.

It's heartbreaking every single time.

Quite.

How many times do you read on here "you saw a snapshot, mind your own business" when posters describe seeing a parent's awful treatment of a child?

@SandysMam yes - and that she could have been saved if an ambulance had been called sooner

The next time there is a ‘I can always hear children crying next door, what should it do’ thread, and the usual ‘mind your own business’ replies get wheeled out, I am going to link this thread
The neighbours in the flat below who heard that poor girl crying and being beaten time after time, but did nothing… this is what the result of ‘minding your own business’ is

@SW1amp

The next time there is a ‘I can always hear children crying next door, what should it do’ thread, and the usual ‘mind your own business’ replies get wheeled out, I am going to link this thread The neighbours in the flat below who heard that poor girl crying and being beaten time after time, but did nothing… this is what the result of ‘minding your own business’ is

Totally agree.

I wonder how their legal teams felt having to try and defend that pair of evil monsters 😔

@Crikeycroc

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 think it’s seen as more onus on the mother to protect her child, especially from someone unrelated, so she gets harsher criticism.

In this case, the boyfriend started smacking Kaylee early on and it escalated quickly. The mother says she didn’t do anything. And this carried on right up to her hearing him punch her repeatedly and then see the terrible marks on the night before her death.

Even then, when he’d suddenly left the flat and Kaylee was visibly injured, sick and dying, she was texting ‘love you babe’ messages to him with heart emojis, knowing what he’d done.

I believe the court was told Priest had low intelligence. But of course she knew the difference between right and wrong, 😞

The next time there is a ‘I can always hear children crying next door, what should it do’ thread, and the usual ‘mind your own business’ replies get wheeled out, I am going to link this thread
Not all posters say 'mind your own business' in response to threads where a child is heard crying. Many people say 'report.'
The problem is that children cry and for many reasons. You read threads where a mother says her child/ toddler screamed for an hour because they had to put shoes on, or they demanded something quite impossible etc. It's hard to distinguish between normal crying and cause for real concern.
Obviously, hearing a child being beaten is quite different, and should always be reported.

This makes me feel ill and sick to my stomach. They are monsters , especially the mother...animals protect their young she is scum. Only hope they get their just deserts in prison ...am sickened 😞

@NiceGerbil

Plenty of women struggle to bond/ have pnd etc.

Sometimes people are just horrible sadistic bastards.

One article describes her as having low intelligence. No idea , if that played a part.

Intellectually, I can try and discuss possible reasons and to understand/analyse what happened.

On a personal level , I can't imagine doing that to any child (or person or animal), much less my own child. Such a lack of emotion, feeling,empathy is sociopathic.

Kaylee’s neighbours gave evidence.

They said they heard Priest say “We’ll say she fell off the bed” some months before she was killed, presumably in relation to a previous injury. But nothing about whether they called social services then - so too late now.

But they also heard Priest often shouting things like shut up’, ‘leave me a alone’, which are heartbreaking for a 3yo or any child but not something most people would report, I suspect. Not an excuse, just context in this case.

The ‘mother’ clearly cared more about maintaining her relationship with her boyfriend than her daughter’s well-being. That much is clear.

She’s cold behind the eyes.

Maximum sentence please Judge. For both of them.

I have never wished that someone gets a hard time in prison until today.

@ilovebrie8 Agree with you. I read the article and felt physically sick.

What monsters.

@Popsicle438

The next time there is a ‘I can always hear children crying next door, what should it do’ thread, and the usual ‘mind your own business’ replies get wheeled out, I am going to link this thread Not all posters say 'mind your own business' in response to threads where a child is heard crying. Many people say 'report.' The problem is that children cry and for many reasons. You read threads where a mother says her child/ toddler screamed for an hour because they had to put shoes on, or they demanded something quite impossible etc. It's hard to distinguish between normal crying and cause for real concern. Obviously, hearing a child being beaten is quite different, and should always be reported.

I agree. Linking this thread won't be particularly helpful because children do a lot of screaming and crying for a lot of different reasons.

@bluewanda

Because she was the MOTHER. She owed the upmost duty to that child. She should have done EVERYTHING in her power to protect her. Whoever physically killed her, the “mother” is responsible in every single parent way for her death.

This, 100%. Absolute monster, I hate her with every fibre of my being.

This is one case where I don't care if we're "blaming the woman"

Of course she should be blamed. The man too, but what kind of mother is this twisted, it's unbelievable.

Also in regards to CCTV, don't know why posters are getting offended at the journalistic writing. They're just portraying the relationship between mother and child, with the resources they have at hand

@SW1amp

The next time there is a ‘I can always hear children crying next door, what should it do’ thread, and the usual ‘mind your own business’ replies get wheeled out, I am going to link this thread The neighbours in the flat below who heard that poor girl crying and being beaten time after time, but did nothing… this is what the result of ‘minding your own business’ is

This is what got me. The neighbours quoted full conversations that were MASSIVE red flags but there's no discuss of reporting it. Wasnt sure of Nan was her maternal or paternal gran but Christ I'd have to wonder where I'd gone wrong if that woman was my child