This horrific news story was just beyond belief

Mmc123uk

Me too, suffering silently in plain sight, & still had spirit to the end. Darling child, at peace now, broke my ❤️.

Responding to Kate1949

Me too, suffering silently in plain sight, & still had spirit to the end. Darling child, at peace now, broke my ❤️.

Is the mother from abroad?

I wonder why the mother didn’t realise we get clefts fixed here in the UK.? Mine was fixed gradually over the first ten years but they’re done much more quickly nowadays. Very odd…

I’m so tired of reports - ‘ well we did hear screaming ‘but do absolute nothing about it.
Wtf can’t people take some responsibility these days

I was horrified to hear this story. It crossed my mind that it would have been kinder to leave the child somewhere where she would have been found quickly soon after the birth. At least she would have had the surgery she needed and would have been cared for properly. I also hope she will have no memory of the first three years of her miserable life. The mother is a monster.

I think it happened a couple of years ago but has just come to court?
Hopefully she has a better life now and won’t remember what came before.It made horrible reading for us all.😟

The poor little mite, it was on the news today that the fosterers are applying to adopt her, let’s hope her life starts to improve now. I suppose the other children are also in care now. Terribly tragic all round.

merlotgran

I also find it strange and shocking that nobody else discovered the poor little mite until the partner went back into the house as they were going out and heard her crying. It’s said he often used to stay over so where did he sleep?

Where was the natural curiosity of the other children? We all know how hard it is to hide things like Christmas presents so a live baby??? Children normally know every inch of their homes - even the places they’re not supposed to go.

It makes absolutely no sense to me.

No sense to any of it is there? Almost beyond belief.If a normal size house not a mansion then there’s no way that the other kids didn’t know for 3 years.
In some cultures a cleft palate or any disability that’s obvious can be covered up, hidden away as shameful.Obvs we don’t know if this is the case here.The Mother fed milky weetabix through a syringe to the poor child as it was maybe the only way to get any food into her mouth easily?
It’s the strangest case I have ever heard of in a world of strange cases.
At least the poor girl was alive, it would have been easy for the Mother to have suffocated her shortly after the birth, but she didn’t.

If a visitor to the house heard the poor child crying, I find it very hard to believe that nobody else heard anything in 3 years ?

I can't really say what I think about the woman who brought her into the world

I truly hope this little girl does not remember this cruelty and goes on to have a happy life.

My grandma would have said horsewhipping was too good for the mother. How could she even think to behave like this. I read the child was the product of a bad relationship the mother wanted to forget. It would have been better to wrap the little mite up and leave her on a doorstep.

I saw the headline and thought it was in some foreign country like China, never thought for a minute it could be in the UK.

I cried when I read this report, that poor baby. I look at my DGD who’s 20 months and couldn’t comprehend how anyone could do this.

I also find it strange and shocking that nobody else discovered the poor little mite until the partner went back into the house as they were going out and heard her crying. It’s said he often used to stay over so where did he sleep?

Where was the natural curiosity of the other children? We all know how hard it is to hide things like Christmas presents so a live baby??? Children normally know every inch of their homes - even the places they’re not supposed to go.

It makes absolutely no sense to me.

The mother claimed the drawer was never shut on the child. Even if a baby eventually learns that crying brings no reward, surely a newborn baby will cry? How was that covered up? She was only fed milky Weetabix, I can’t imagine what a diet like that would do to a body that needs so many nutrients to grow properly.

Seemingly, the mother had a new boyfriend and he was the one who found the child, after hearing an odd noise. He alerted family members and social workers then intervened.

Absolutely shocking, beggers belief . For the mother to calmly say she was not part of the family!!!??? and I find it hard to accept that other people in the house did not know she was there 😕??????. All very odd and lots of questions need asking. Child cruelty is on the increase - or is it that we hear about it all now. Whatever the reason this has got to stop .

This mother has probably destroyed this child's life.

Do you remember the Rumanian Orphanages, where the children were just left in cots, sometimes tied in and were inadequaately fed and watered and never picked up or cuddled.

Despite many of those children then being adopted by lovving families these children have physical and mental dvelopment problems that have lasted through into adulthood.

This poor wee lass is likely to be already so mentally dmagaed she will be unable to function with out commuity support for the rest of her life.

All the mother got was 7 years. The sentence should have been much longer, but that probably wasn't possible.

Esmay a jet feature of this kind of neglect is that babies learn crying doesn’t bring anyone to help or care for them. The healthy attachment cycle shows baby cries, carer (usually mother in those key early months. Baby attaches, mum bonds. This little child had her basic needs neglected to an extent that’s almost impossible to comprehend.

petal153 thanks to your family x

I read this and cried .
I can't get it out of my mind .
Her mother can't be normal .
It's unbelievable that no one heard her cry .
Maybe , the other children were too scared to explore their home even though they have been described as well cared for .
I'm glad to read that she is making progress so that there is hope for her for a happy future .

As Iam64 commented, this poor little girl will have stunted development in many areas, as a result of her treatment during her formative years. It’s beyond words to describe how we ordinary Gransnetters feel about this, because the behaviour is so abnormal to us, many of us being mothers and grandmothers. I simply can’t find words to express my horror and disgust at what was done to this child. I speak as the grandparent of an adopted grandchild, who was very neglected during his first year of life, but it was nowhere near this bad. And yet we know how the neglect he suffered impacted his development in his early years. Thankfully now he has loving parents, grandparents, and wider family, and he has a good life.
I wish the same for this poor little girl 🙏

knew.

Cossy

Jeanathome

Trust me Cossy, I'd be first in line to ring the appropriate services if I suspected something was wrong.

Yes I’m sure you and all GNs would.

Safeguarding is the responsibility of all

I'm sure we would (and have).

But no-one new about her.
As far as anyone was concerned, she did not exist.

Covid caused so much damage beyond the disease itself.

Absolutely.

Jeanathome

Trust me Cossy, I'd be first in line to ring the appropriate services if I suspected something was wrong.

Yes I’m sure you and all GNs would.

Safeguarding is the responsibility of all

Allira

Jeanathome

I wonder why we let this stuff into our heads? I am guilty of this.

We match it up with our own experiences and can not comprehend things.
Perhaps we look for reasons, somebody to blame, retribution.

I wonder why we let this stuff into our heads? I am guilty of this.
The problem is, once seen or heard it cannot be unseen or unheard.
I woke in the night thinking of this child's suffering. Then it's difficult to go back to sleep because your mind goes on to other cases.

It's hard being a human sometimes.