This has to be the worst case of abuse against a child I have read

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I am absolutely flabbergasted that this could have gone on and not one person reported it. Not the family members. Not the neighbours. Not the staff at school. This little girl had absolutely no one.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13962633/note-sara-sharifs-body-court-father-confessed-killing.html?ico=article_preview_xp_mobile

Bring back hanging.

If the abusers had SS contact them it might have made them think/worry and stop or reduce the abuse. She could still be alive. Although sadly what she went through she is actually better off dead and free from pain
Absolutely barbaric, reading about the make shift hoods made me weep to think what her life was like and how frightened she must have been, the pain must have been horrific.

Police can exercise their powers and remove a child which gives the local authority 72 hours to get a plan together. The LA can also apply for an emergency protection order or an emergency interim care order both allow immediately removal.

I've never ever seen that be the advice on here. Ever.

@uhOhOP I don't think that would be the advice for hearing "gut wrenching screams".

Perhaps the neighbours were afraid of being accused of racism? Or SS handle these particular families with kid gloves, for same reason.

That 999 call handler was excellent, must be awful to receive a call like that and he stayed so calm and did his best to gather information the police and ambulance service would need.

Absolutely horrific, I don’t know how the neighbours will live with themselves knowing what was going on and not reporting it.

The murderers are entirely to blame of course but someone capable of carrying out torture like that is hardly going to lose sleep over it. The neighbours on the other hand will be haunted by this forever.

I don't care about 'getting it wrong'. There's no smoke without fire when it comes to MURDERED children and I expect it'd be a tiny percentage anyway.

THERE IS JUST NO REAL DETERRENT!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13974951/Teenage-babysitter-murdered-boy-freed-jail.html

She'll be free to live a long life, have her own babies! She should be burning in hell!!

You don't care about getting it wrong? You wouldn't mind if somebody was hanged for a crime they didn't commit, perhaps because you think that more often than not the right person is found guilty of the crime? You would care when it would be you or your child or your sibling or your good friend.

I work in a men's prison and pretty much every week someone on remand is released by the courts due to lack of evidence/wrongful arrest/etc etc

So bringing back hanging is a no from me!

No I don't care, that's why I said exactly that. Maybe its because I don't know or associate with the type of people who might be wrongly suspected of raping a baby or beating a child to death.
I'll say it again, there's no smoke without fire.

Yes, I'd hang Lucy Letby. And my own father as he was a paedophile too.

Nobody is talking about executing remanded prisoners... 🙄

Yeah, you would care if you were innocent and had somehow been convicted and sentenced to the death penalty for something you hadn’t done. Mistakes rarely happen but they happen.

No, I wouldn't. And I already explained why above..

To explain AGAIN.
I'm not talking about executing anyone on remand, or people accused of theft, drug offences blah blah blah. I'd like convicted paedophiles and child killers to face capital punishment, rather than ridiculously short, lenient sentences that are no deterrent. Or on the rare occasion the sentence is a long one, to avoid the cost to society of keeping a convicted monster fed warm etc.
The type of people who could ever be accused, rightly or wrongly, of raping or murdering a child, are not the type of people I'd ever lose sleep over.

Well again, they can appeal and be found innocent.... it happens. So no.

Is it possible they did not report because they may be of the same culture, and believe as the father said, it was OK to "legally punish" a child. I can't bear to follow this trial, so this may not be the case at all. Whoever they are, the neighbours are culpable of allowing this horror to be inflicted on this poor little girl. Shame on them1

He is back in the UK, isn't he?? The dad??

This is one occasion where I would welcome a sharia style punishment would they do that in Pakistan? They shoot people in the Middle East for much less.

@Cantalever the neighbours quoted in the media weren't of the same culture or anything close.

These people are monsters. I do hope that they get a beating when they are locked up.

How utterly horrifying 😭 poor child must have lived her life in fear and crippling pain.

I do find it bloody frustrating - this kind of horrendous abuse goes on while people who have kids with suspicious looking birthmark are penalised and put through hell (a recent thread on here). No idea how it works.

I'm assuming if the father could fool a family court, he'd have had no problems fooling neighbours and social services. That poor child

I see it all the time unfortunately