Another case of cruelty

It was very clear that she wanted to live with her dad.
I've no idea what possessed them to overrule her wishes, but she would still be alive if they had listened, without q doubt.

They must have had a best interests meeting? They are obsessed with having them. Surely part of that process was to ask Debbie what she wanted

It seems they were pretty involved at some point; empowering her to live as she chose, and to do what she wanted, then they stepped in and overruled her choice to live with her dad, who was perfectly happy to take her.

There is such an old fashioned and outdated rhetoric with respect to people with learning disabilities. If she was crying for attention and needed it, wouldn't that have shown her needs were not being met?

Honestly the whole situation sounds just awful.

I wish I could say I don't understand how this has happened but unfortunately I know how as services have been cut so much and I suppose when many young people with MLD/SLD leave education they become invisible.

From what I have read, the "mother" just took the line of not opening the door, not attending appointments, and so, people just went away, time and again.

When social services gained access, and could hear the girl crying in her room, they accepted that she was doing it just for attention, as they were told.

God that's awful. That poor, poor girl

I wonder why the police were not called?

This young woman wanted to live with her dad, but social services wouldn't allow it.

She had friends, a boyfriend, and went to college and a day centre at one point.

Poor child. I read this week about a couple who were charged after letting their 16 year old daughter become morbidly obese. She died.

Oh, just realised it's a daily mail link.
Obviously, I only read it because I happened to be somewhere and needed to read something... blah blah.

This is a very watered down report, from what I understand.