Britains crueliest parents OMG!

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I have no idea why they ain't working

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what I can't understand is that relatives told her to do something about the kids, but she didn't. WHY didn't they call Social Services!??

Words fail me....

bastards!!
my god they will suffer in prison.

omg how awful, poor poor souls.

Bloody hell that is awful

i feel just totally stunned and sick when i read things like this..... so,so sad those poor, poor kids. What makes me even sadder though is the cases just like this that are going on out there undiscovered at the moment and the suffering some kids are going through at this moment and noone knows

this was the Guardian's coverage

Read it this morning and it made me feel sick.

But have you also seen the article directly below about the mum who chopped off her 11 month old baby's arms (and murdered her)...

It's unbelievable. A big part of me wants to stick my head in the sand and pretend that this sort of thing doesn't go on

It's absolutely despicable. I was horrified to read that one of the twins was passing 'live housefly maggots into his nappy', those poor kids. Parents like this are the lowest of the low.

I agree with others that the thought that this is happening hidden all over the country makes me feel very very sad and ashamed that our care system is so obviously failing to protect our nation's vulnerable children adequately.

The relatives who babysat and simply told the parents to "do something" should be prosecuted too IMO.

why didn't the relatives do something??

Read this in the local paper at the time.
Those poor kids makes you think how many more there are being left like that.

i feel sickened by this too. you couldn't make it up.

Seven years??? They want shooting.

The thought of the eldest, at just eight, "trying her best to help the younger ones" made me cry.
She must have gone to school smelling, was this not picked up by her classmates or a teacher?
Poor little souls.

This is truly horrific. How can this be allowed to go on unnoticed in today's civilised society?

Good god, that's absolutely Dickensian. Cases such as that were fairly common when I was a child but it's hard to believe it's still happening in this day and age. As well as the relatives, I wonder what role the Health Visitors and the older children's teachers played.

If any of us ever have any suspicions that children we know of are being neglected, however small or instinctive those suspicions, let us act on them and blow the whistle.

Because this can be the consequence of not wanting to make a fuss.

suzy, you are so right. on the way to dd1's nursery i walk past the church where victoria climbie was taken to near the end of her life, and i hope if i'd seen her I would have noticed and tried to tell someone about her terrible state

You just have to hope that hearing/reading about this makes at least one person somewhere pick up the phone and talk to social services about a child they have concerns about.

Sometimes I wonder if we've gone too far down the road of parents' rights/privacy being paramount, and have lost sight of the fact that we all ought to be thinking of and caring about the children in our society - their welfare is the responsibility of all of us, not just their parents.

My heart goes out to those poor children.