How can parents do this?

How did this fo unnoticed in school?

Being emaciated is not a 1 day process, it happens overtime

It's a tragedy that keeps happening. Heartbreaking. Poor little one totally helpless with sadistic parents.
I just hope they suffer in prison as there are people in there too who will be disgusted by their crime.

This has turned my stomach. It's absolutely vile. What kinds of people can actually do this? How can this happen? I've a grandson the same age. Life sentence! With no parole.

I’ve read some of the details of this ongoing case but had to scroll past the one yesterday with the video of him having to sleep on the floor and saying “no one loves me”. I was in tears and I am now writing this. It’s beyond any normal person’s understanding. I couldn’t treat an animal like this, let alone a 6 year old boy.

I can only imagine his grandmother’s distress and that of his extended family. They were worried and alerted social services but, as usual, they visited and found no concerns.

Arthur is suffering no more but this cruelty to children continues. I fervently hope they get extremely long sentences.

It is so tragic , I am unable to read the full report. WHY are such acts of cruelty still happening!!!! The poor little mite , how did he slip under the radar ? Were neighbours , family , school , social services completely unaware of what was happening to this little boy? It beggers belief. I like many other feel sick thinking about this !

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I can’t bring myself to read it, I just cannot understand how people can do this kind of thing, the death penalty should be introduced

Appalling. I have no words.

Absolutely heart breaking that poor, poor little boy what he went through doesn't bear thinking about. There are pictures of him enjoying happier days, in a paddling pool and smiling with the father wearing his football strip.........how did it get to this? did the father fall under the malign influence of his lover, who shockingly had four children of her own Another similar case at the moment, a woman and her female lover accused of killing 16 month old baby girl, another case where the little girl was treated badly by the partner Achingly sad, I think in both cases the children were happy in their grandparents' care.

Another harrowing story, two parents stabbed to death by neighbour over a parking scrap.........leaving their very young children orphans. Diabolical

I was thinking about some of the deaths I have read about recently of young children at the hands of biological parents/step-parents, and even two deaths I read about of people who had adopted a child and then killed them.
I read about the boy you are talking about a few weeks ago and thought how horrible his life had been it just does not bear thinking about.
I am waiting to hear about the 5 year old from Wales who was pulled from a stream in Wales dead. His biological mother her partner and the partners 14 year old son are all accused of murder. A call had been put in at 6am to police by his mother saying she had found he had gone missing from the family home. I think it is disgusting that the actual parent
can cause harm and suffering to their young children.
I hope all parents /step parents that do this to their children
suffer and are haunted by what they have done until they die.
Hopefully they never get out of prison either.

Sorry 50 years later. Which makes it even worse.

I just can't bring myself to read it. We've seen so many of these cases, going right back to little Maria Colwell in the 1970s, and we're always assured that "lessons have been learned". But here were are, 40 years later and children are still being abused, murdered and failed by their guardian's.

“Eye for an eye” and all that! How can a mother, of all people, do this? Words fail me!

I cried too, what a tragic little lad. Life imprisonment is too good for those scum parents. I have never felt so strongly that the death penalty should be introduced for some crimes. As they have filmed their crimes they should not get away with it but considering the state of the justice system they’ll probably be out after a few years. There is no such thing as a prison justice system either where the bad but good hearted prisoners will do them over either unfortunately. I think they should have done to them what they did to the poor little boy. Rant over but I’m still upset and furious.

I hope they are locked up for life!