What A Hideous Headline

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285561/Boy-2-drowns-garden-pond-young-parents-enjoyed-night-pub.ht ml

You read the headline and immediately assume he was home alone as the parents were in the pub when actually he was being cared for by relatives whilst the parents went out.

Poor little fella, so sad

how sad

parents not at fault at all but whoever was looking after the child has a hell of a lot to live with now. How you move on from this I do not know (speaking as someone who has lost a child themselves but in totally different circumstances where there was no blame)

The Daily Mail should be ashamed of itself. Yes, they went to the pub but they left him with a babysitter and judging by the ages given the grandmother of the poor little boy.

A child can drown in two inches of water. It could happen to anyone who has 2 inches of water lying around with any child near it, and it can happen in minutes.

The headline is really misleading and horrible in itself for everyone involved to deal with, on top of the tragedy.

This headline is absolutely shocking and should be changed. The hack that wrote it should be made to issue a public apology. How do we complain?

Those poor parents are going through the most awful time imaginable and must feel so guilty (when they weren't to blame) without this sensationalist, judgmental crap being published.

Agree with you,this headline is absolutely digusting & very misleading.

I wonder if the journalist would have wrote the same headline if the parents were middle aged Penelope & Tarquin Farqhuar-Butternut Squash???

They should be made to write an apology.

How awful of the Daily Heil to add to this poor young couple's agony by implying that they were being neglectful for going out for an evening. And poor wee boy

I read this on-line yesterday and thought the headline was utterly disgusting. I notice they shoe-horned 'young' in there too

Not just me then :-(

typical Daily hate

Poor family .

It's not just Daily Hate though. It's a fairly typical sensationalist headline written by a crap journalist for a crap paper.

We had similar happen to us when BIL died 10 years ago. The local rag found out about it somehow and asked PILs for an interview. PILs thought it would be an easy way to let as many people know as possible so agreed. BIL died of an epileptic fit (SUDEP, same as Ivan Cameron) but because the PM results weren't back at the time the scumbag journalist put it on the front page under the headline 'MYSTERY death of XXXXX, 23'. The implication that something other than natural causes was involved was horrific, on top of an already horrific situation. The bastards didn't even bother printing a miniscule follow up article confirming it was SUDEP .

I wouldn't trust a journalist as far as I could throw them. They have no conscience or compassion whatsoever.

Can we complain??? Who do we complain to?? This is horrendous.

yes i noticed 'young' aswell. why did they only mention the mum's age and not the dad's. was he not young enough to make it sensationalist?

www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/form.html

I hate this newpaper with a passion, and have made a formal complaint about this article. Plese take some time to do the same.

afaik, the pcc can only intervene if a complaint is made by a member of the family. Something was mentioned on here after that disgusting Jan Moir article re. Stephen Gately.

I don't know the details though.

This wasn't indicated on their website, and looking at the criteria the DM have breached the code of practice through the horribly misleading headline. I'll see what kind of response I get. Never done it before!

Awful headline. Wtf does it matter how old the mum who went to the pub was? She got someone she obviously trusted to look after her little boy. She wasnt irresponsible at all and yet they've made it sound like the little boys parents left him alone to go out on the piss hope the family kick up huge fuss and get a public apology.

Multiple horrible things implied to make all the miserable, white, middle-aged, not-as-successful-as-they-would-have-liked-to-have-been, bitter, village dwelling racist tories across the land tut-tut over their breakfast all-bran.

Cunts. There will never be a public apology from the Mail, they love destroying people's lives for kicks.

bloody hell what an awful headline!

Absolutely disgusting. They've also called the child Daniel Rees-Smith in the article and Daniel-Rees Smith in the photo caption. Bunch of incompetant twats.

Poor, poor little boy. And his poor family.