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Originally Posted by parmnion
Mr Lewis told the jury about a catalogue of injuries Elsie had suffered during her short life.
In November 2015, two months after she had been taken in by the couple, she had fractured her ankle while in the sole care of the defendant, who had given differing accounts of how she had suffered the injury.
A month later she sustained a bruise to her forehead which a health visitor advised needed treating. Matthew Scully-Hicks allegedly lied he had done so, the jury heard.
'Going through hell'
In January, Elsie suffered another bruise on her head and in March she was taken to hospital by ambulance after Matthew Scully-Hicks said she had fallen down the stairs.
She was discharged from hospital after four hours after her injuries were considered "consistent with a fall downstairs".
The jury were read a series of text messages the defendant allegedly sent to friends. One described the baby as a "psycho".
One read: "I'm going through hell with Elsie. Mealtimes and bedtimes are like my worst nightmare at the minute."
Another said: "She has just screamed non stop for 10 minutes. She had a full bottle and clean nappy. Literally not even half an hour and she is a psycho."
All that was before they had been allowed to officially adopt the child, yet they still passed...WTF
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I'm not sure why you've felt the need to copy and paste all of that.
My post was clearly referring to the fact that it's likely he may not have ever done anything like this before in his life prior to taking in this child. Hence Annie mentioning him clearly not being prepared for the hard work involved in caring for a baby. Not as an excuse for his behaviour, but maybe to explain how this has suddenly come out of him when he likely hadn't behaved in this way before.
The question of how and why these injuries went under the radar and were classed as accidents rather than the abuse it was therefore not affecting the official adoption is a question I couldn't begin to answer and is clearly a fault that needs serious investigation.
My original point was to point out things like this don't just happen when it's been long pre-planned or by people who are prone yo enjoying and inflicting this abuse on numerous victims.
I assume that's where your comments about paedophiles adopting children came from. The idea that things like this are always pre-planned and carried out by completely psychopathic people. It's not always the case.