The very sad case of Sara Sharif

tickingbird

Hithere

Scream honour killing to me, sadly

Highly unlikely. Probably the fact that she wasn’t the child of the current wife.

Probably the fact that she wasn’t the child of the current wife.

I think that's likely too.

Reportedly violent father, step-mother with young family, possibly resentful of caring for step-children too.

One wonders what this poor child went through in a family of bullies.

They claimed she had fallen down the stairs! So no ambulance just a door closed and a hasty departure to Pakistan.
The photo of the little girl shown on the news did not at first fully show the bandaged arm. She was wearing lipstick and something is not right sprang into my mind. Poor little mite. This was ongoing abuse by evil people.

They claimed she had fallen down the stairs! So no ambulance just a door closed and a hasty departure to Pakistan

It's horrific. Was she dead when they left or did they just leave her there to die?

What Dickens said:

*Why is it so difficult to protect the nation's children?*

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Why is it so difficult to protect the nation's children?*

Because parents are allowed to be manipulative and child protection is vastly underfunded.

Nothing is going to change this is the third headline case in a few months, doubtless others didn’t make the news

The worst thing about this case is that the little girl was subjected to abuse over a long time. Probably all the time she had been supposedly home schooled so out of the public eye.

According to the news I watched the family were known to the police and social services. So yet once again an innocent child has been killed because someone has not been doing their job.

maddyone

It hasn’t actually been confirmed that she was murdered but I think we are all of the opinion, given the circumstances, that it is the most likely reason she is dead. The few facts we know appear to point to that rather than accidental death.
I’m quite concerned that police and Social Services knew about the family, that it has been reported that the father was very violent by Sara’s biological mother, that this child was apparently withdrawn from school earlier this year with little follow up, that many of her injuries are historic, and Sara’s Polish family have spoken to confirm that her father was violent. I wonder why Sara’s mother only saw her twice in the last four years. Pictures released show Sara to be happy and apparently thriving when she lived with her mother. Who made the decision to place her with her father? Why was mother unable to see her? Theres no suggestion she was unsuitable but even if she was, supervised visits could have been organised by Social Services. Was there some degree of political correctness involved because of her mixed heritage? Why was Sara made up in an adult fashion with adult type earrings in the released photo? What was the uncle’s involvement?

So many questions. So few answers.

So many questions. So few answers.

Yes - and those questions you raise need answering.

One of the depressing aspects of this is that we know in advance that there will be lots of hand-wringing and talk of missed opportunities... I would in fact ban that expression because it is a politically 'correct' utterance to cover-up the likelihood that it was sheer incompetence, either from the people involved, or entrenched within the system itself.

I suppose it's 'economically beneficial ' to keep families together and 'work' with them as opposed to removing a child and possibly fostering it? Having been involved in such a case via a family member who did foster children, and saw one of the children compelled to visits with a father that had previously abused him at the behest of social services, I'm very cynical about this whole concept of keeping families together. It's obvious that in more than enough instances, it really is not in the child's interests.

Can't stand political correctness - it may well have been a factor, but who knows? It seems to me social services (understaffed and underpaid) often give the real problem families a wide berth because it's just too difficult - even scary. Poor little girl - it's so hard to understand that she had so little protection, no-one to reach out to in our 'civilised' society.

Hithere

Scream honour killing to me, sadly

But she was only ten. What could she have done to dishonour the family at that age?

Authorities need to put up a reward in order to tempt family members who must know where the families are hiding.

Loyalties can be tested when huge amount of money is involved.

Likely that Sara was being used as a servant -cleaning and looking after second wife’s children. Heartbreaking that she had nobody to confide in at school.

The excuse for her being pulled out of school is that she was being bullied over her hijab.

That photo of the poor little girl doesn't look like a 10 year old experimenting with make-up. Sadly I think there's a far more sinister reason for her being overly made up like that. That poor little child. It breaks my heart to think what she went through. I'm sick to the back teeth of Serious Case Review after Serious Case Review following the death of a child, "Lessons will be learnt" because they never are.

Makes me sick that so many people working in the institutions that are there to support these children, seem to be too afraid of being classed as 'racist'! Rather that than these children, and others, are left to their fate at the hands of abusive family members.

Redhead56

The worst thing about this case is that the little girl was subjected to abuse over a long time. Probably all the time she had been supposedly home schooled so out of the public eye.

According to the news I watched the family were known to the police and social services. So yet once again an innocent child has been killed because someone has not been doing their job.

It beggars belief that a family known to police and social services were allowed to "home school" one of their children.
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At least in the US, we are walking on eggshells based on the concept of "religious freedom"

It just makes me so sad when things like this happen. Ill treatment of little children really upsets me, they are so helpless and so often no one listens to them even when they pluck up courage to tell. I know what these horrible creatures deserve but I bet they don’t suffer in any way because as soon as someone pulls out the race card that is the end of that.

It's so sad and tragic. Both OH and I immediately mentionned the very professional looking make-up, making her look much older, and wondered why.

She apparently has a 13 year old brother who was taken with the other children.. I can't imagine what he is feeling.. or their mother..

I thought she had a lot of make up on for a 10 year old. She looked 18. Can’t think what was going on in her short life. Hope she didn’t suffer.

Murdered ten-year-old Sara Sharif 'was seen in school with cuts and bruises to her face months before she was found dead at family home in Woking', neighbour claims

another child let down by social services. lessons will be learned we keep hearing, sometime never i suppose.

the photo was quite obviously a special 'occasion' photo for a birthday ect. so no alarm bells,

shame the school who noticed bruises on her face didn't alert the authorities.

Kate1949

My husband said the same Hithere. I would imagine there are different forms of honour killings. Poor little mite. The cowards have run off.

I wish this appalling phrase "honour" killing would not be used.
The only honour lost was this poor child's. Until this misogynistic culture is eradicated, more girls will be murdered, because that is what it is. There is nothing honourable about killing a girl child.

lemsip

the photo was quite obviously a special 'occasion' photo for a birthday ect. so no alarm bells,

shame the school who noticed bruises on her face didn't alert the authorities.

A 10 year old?

Fleurpepper

lemsip

the photo was quite obviously a special 'occasion' photo for a birthday ect. so no alarm bells,

shame the school who noticed bruises on her face didn't alert the authorities.

A 10 year old?

No 10 year olds I know.

Although they might try sneakily borrowing their Mum's or sister's makeup but that looked expertly done for a professional photograph.

I have been watching the news updates on the little 10 year old
vulnerable innocent child and once again feel sickened that a small child that should have been protected by the family adults met only with abuse and violence. It has already been said that the police and social services were involved with the family and it is my belief that social services probably already had poor little Sara on one of their registers and were keeping tabs on the family. I have just read today that Sara was recently removed from school as pupils and a teacher noticed cuts and bruising on her face and neck so the family turned round and told the school they were going to be home schooling her.
To me that little 10 year old has been let down not only by her parents but also the school as every school has welfare child protection agency officer on the staff. Once the social services are involved the school are also notified as they form part of the welfare of the child. This case is raising all the red flags for me as also when a child is being investigated by social services then the parent has not got the power to remove the child from education and home school.

I like other posters have many questions that I would like answers to and most of them are why did the child apparently just fall through the net. It is disgusting that even the child's birth mother has barely seen her because there are court procedures she could have gone through and her visits to the child could have been arranged through social services. Too many alarm bells are ringing about this child there would have been so many opportunities for this child to still be alive if the correct people had been doing their jobs properly.

I hope they bring the father his partner and the brother of the father back to the U.K and the only thing they need is hanging and even that is too good for them.

R.I.P. little Sara be at peace little one.