Baby Brendon Staddon (difficult topic)

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I despair. I have unfortunately read a horrific news article about this poor poor baby. 😢 I cant understand how these people could have inflicted such injuries upon their precious premature newborn. How do people deal with this mentally after reading such horror?

Because their job is to ensure the safety of those in their care.
That's it.
Doesn't get more basic than that.

Exactly. If the most vulnerable aren't even safe in a hospital setting then that says it all.

I feel the same @Laiste
🥲

I agree. I doubt the NHS has enough nurses for one to stand and watch each baby at all times.

Having worked in a NICU unit nurses don't need to stand and watch each baby 24 hours a day.
Due to the nature of tasks, there should be 1 staff member at all times in the rooms as babies will be being tube fed, nappy changed, stats taken, monitored, comforted etc.
If this isn't happening because the nurses are spread too thin, its on the management, who will be shock horror, also nurses.

Sorry i don't understand your last comment about the management being shock horror also nurses. Who are you saying would be shocked or horrified that the management are nurses? And why?

Are you usually so obtuse.
Perhaps you should review which comment you agreed with.

No I'm not stupid at all. I just don't understand your comment. Since you've chosen to be rude rather than to explain it, I won't engage further with you. Are you usually such a nasty person?

It’s social services that decide if parents can only have supervised access, and then they’re meant to provide the supervision. Poor baby.

The baby was deemed to be in a safe place. If you think there is a shortage of nurses, there is an even bigger shortage of Social Workers, and contrary to popular belief, Spcial Workers do not have the legal powers that the Police have. What did you expect, a Social Worker to be on duty in the neonatal unit 24 hours a day guarding the baby? Bearing in mind Social Workers often have 30+ cases at any one time, how would they be expected to manage their other cases if they are standing guard over a baby in hospital? Let’s be clear, the baby was allegedly killed by his parents, not by the Social Workers, nursing staff or any other paid professional. The father was at the neonatal unit in the early hours of the morning when he asked for a nurse to check the baby, a time when there are often less nursing staff on duty. So let’s put the blame where it belongs instead of castigating professionals who all work really hard to care for families and patients.

Our SCBU always tells social services that it is their role to sort supervision. Otherwise the parents would have to be left alone with a baby as soon as there was an emergency. Parents who cannot be left alone with their baby cannot have 24 hour access, but only scheduled visits.

As a social work manager, I would expect social services to have applied to court for an urgent hearing the day the baby was born and obtained a court order excluding the parents from the hospital apart from for limited supervised contact. That's what should have happened on the face of it.

Something went significantly wrong then 😢 that poor baby was just brutally tortured and there was not a single soul to protect him.

Remember that the parents have not yet been convicted and deny harming him. I am not saying they are innocent, but there is a trial in progress so we should be careful what we say.

I hadnt heard of him but can sadly imagine his story. Way too common these days and why I want the death penalty brought back. People might think twice about neglecting or even having kids if their lives quite literally depended on them having to give those kids a reasonable standard of care.

If we had the death penalty, Sally Clark would have been executed, as would some other innocent people. We regularly convict innocent people. And the evidence available is that the death penalty does not act as a deterrent.

Not each baby, one baby. The baby with parents considered so unfit that Social Services had been involved before the birth. They shouldn’t have been allowed onto the ward, if there was no-one available to supervise them. It sounds once again like there wasn’t any joined-up care in place for this poor baby.

Whatever measures should have been taken to prevent the parents having free access, obviously weren’t put in place. No doubt it wasn’t the responsibility of NHS staff, because the parents were on SS radar, but it wasn’t the responsibility of SS, because the baby was under the care of the NHS, So many cracks, and so many babies and children allowed to slip through them.

What the fuck is wrong with some people? That poor little baby boy. 🥺

DS was in the SCBU (only for a little while while they tried to get some antibiotics and a feed into him) and when I was visiting from the maternity ward I wasn't left alone with him, although it was a different hospital.

Just had the misfortune of reading about this poor little boy.

The details of what that piece of shit did to him are horrendous. I cannot even imagine.

Appalling that he was allowed within 100 feet of that hospital after being caught removing the baby’s NG tube, getting angry at him, overstimulating him and being too rough.

There needs to be an inquiry into this. Heads need to roll.

As for the killer, I’d hang him tonight.

I only just saw this story and honestly wish I hadnt.

Ignoring the obvious horror of it all

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14937197/Father-guilty-murdering-two-week-son-newborn-hospital.html

What jumped out was the mother Sophie Staddon asked nurses to check on her baby as she "thought he was cold" and then was found outside having a chat and a fag with the degenerate bastard that caved her child's brain in.
And she probably had just watched the fucker do it.

I just dont understand it... and keep thinking WHY?
all they had to do after she had the baby was walk away. Just abandoned their child.amd not look back.
Instead they kept coming back to terrorise and ultimately murder the poor soul.

The jury might have found her not guilty..
But that woman is not innocent....

I only just saw this story and honestly wish I hadnt.

Ignoring the obvious horror of it all

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14937197/Father-guilty-murdering-two-week-son-newborn-hospital.html

What jumped out was the mother Sophie Staddon asked nurses to check on her baby as she "thought he was cold" and then was found outside having a chat and a fag with the degenerate bastard that caved her child's brain in.
And she probably had just watched the fucker do it.

I just dont understand it... and keep thinking WHY?
all they had to do after she had the baby was walk away. Just abandoned their child.amd not look back.
Instead they kept coming back to terrorise and ultimately murder the poor soul.

The jury might have found her not guilty..
But that woman is not innocent....

This is just so horrific. That poor little baby. The BBC article suggests the fatal attack happened at 4am so presumably there would have been less staffing around.

I’ve edited this noting that it’s an ongoing trial, I feel extremely sorry for any staff in this situation, I’m sure they were doing their level best.

The thing I can’t get my head around is why this despicable, evil bastard wasn’t removed by security. I’m usually the first to defend the NHS and its staff, but fucking hell…this was several occasions of witnessed harm from someone whom social work were all over.

They should’ve done more.

That poor baby was in a place of safety, and out of all the adults around him, nobody protected him.

Please please please when that piece of shit is sent to prison put him on an open corridor with the other inmates. No separate segregation or isolation for him.

This. I hope he feels fear every day for the rest of his miserable existence.