Mummified Boy's Mum Pleaded Guilty To Neglect

[thenry]

The court has been told that the police, social services, health visitors, a school and Hamzah's GP practice were discussing concerns about him both before and after he died. Paediatrician Dr Kathryn Ward told the jury Hamzah and his mother were the subject of multi-agency meetings in 2009 and 2010 because of child protection concerns.

http://news.sky.com/story/1147329/mu...lty-to-neglect

RIP little 1

[thenry]

A mother who starved her four-year-old son to death and left his body in her bedroom until it became mummified has been found guilty of his manslaughter.

Hutton was remanded in custody and will be sentenced tomorrow by Judge Roger Thomas QC.

http://news.sky.com/story/1149891/mu...-hutton-guilty

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

[Osem]

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!!!

[jodash]

A rooky police officer who would not give me up

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.

[thenry]

Mother Of 'Mummified Boy' Jailed For 15 Years

http://news.sky.com/story/1150262/mu...d-for-15-years

good

[nomadking]

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.

[Osem]

Originally Posted by nomadking

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.

Tariq Khan, who has admitted failing to bury the body of his brother Hamzah Khan and was given a suspended sentence, made the claim during an interview with police read out at Bradford Crown Court on Friday.

Paul Greaney QC, prosecuting, said that Tariq, now 24, told police that "if he said anything, she would kill the rest of the children".

Tariq told also probation officers how his mother held a knife to the throat of one of the children two days after Hamzah's death.

He also said his mother threatened to burn down the house.

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. 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...

[nomadking]

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?

[Osem]

Originally Posted by nomadking

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?

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.

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by Osem

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.

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.

[nomadking]

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

[Osem]

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.

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Kidnap...idn-t-They-Run

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by Osem

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.

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Kidnap...idn-t-They-Run

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.

[thenry]

The appalling life and death of four-year-old Hamzah Khan, starved to death and left to rot in his Bradford home, will soon be back in the news. An official report into what went wrong - the serious case review - will be published on November 13, more than two years after his tiny mummified body was discovered still wearing a filthy baby's nappy and cuddling a teddy bear.

http://news.sky.com/story/1164510/mu...-surround-case

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