Mummified Boy's Mum Pleaded Guilty To Neglect
 

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RIP little 1

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oh dear read tweets here > http://news.sky.com/story/1149740/li...ed-boy-verdict

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Apparently she abused 6 of her 8 children and it took the intervention of a rooky police officer to finally uncover what was going on. Utterly disgraceful!!!

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A rooky police officer who would not give me up

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As much as the authorities failed here you can't get over the fact that a child died due to the person they should trust and depend on the most. A tragic failure of humanity. Just unimaginably awful.

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good

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Still don't get why the eldest son didn't do anything. He was in his 20s at the time. She must have left the house on occasions, and therefore no threat was there.

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Don't forget his experience was that the authorities were doing nothing and maybe he felt they wouldn't respond sufficiently decisively and promptly to prevent her carrying out her threats. :shrug: Having said that he has received a sentence himself so clearly he's being held accountable to some extent.

I can't say for sure it was regarding this case but I heard a/the father being interviewed on the radio earlier bemoaning the fact that he'd warned the authorities a number of times about her behaviour and begged them to check up on the children's welfare. His contention is that they refused to believe him...

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The eldest son was given a suspended sentence ie no time in prison, for not burying the body. He could have easily waited until she left the house and just removed the kids. There were options that could have been considered. Are people saying they would have done nothing if they had been in his situation?

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Well I know what I'd have done and you likewise but we weren't there and she isn't our 'mother' of 20 odd years who'd quite probably got inside his head during that time. I guess that's what the difference is in this case.

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Exactly - he's spent all of his life under the control of a manipulative evil woman - I'm not going to judge the boy too harshly for being scared of his mother, and what she might do to his brothers/sisters, as well as doubting whether or not the authorities would help him.

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It is one thing to tolerate mistreatment of yourself, but tolerating mistreatment of others, especially your younger brothers/sisters is another.

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It's not about tolerating abuse of yourself, it's about having been so controlled and manipulated over 2 decades, by your own mother, that you've either become unable to distinguish right from wrong or you're so terrified of the repercussions of doing something that you do nothing. Why do so many victims of domestic abuse do nothing about it? The law is there to protect them yet they 'choose' to remain in abusive relationships when they could just walk out. It's very easy to say what you'd have done in the same circumstances having not lived through those circumstances and suffered the effects. I'm certain the court will have gone into great detail about what went on so clearly there were mitigating circumstances which we can only guess at. I'd be very surprised if this young man isn't suffering from some very serious mental health issues having been subjected to this level of abuse over a very long time. His view of reality was/is very different from ours.

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Exactly. It's very easy to stand there and say "Well, in that situation I would have done 'x'" - when you haven't lived through all the experiences that have brought them to that point.

Personally I think it was very unfair to give him a sentence - but I guess that's the law.

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so who will be the face that gets sacked who later goes on to sue. total incompetence!

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