[Angus]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Hello you! sorry, I didn't see it - perhaps the mods would merge it?

Hellish beyond belief - the thought of the absolute pain, slow agonising death that this little boy endured - and 27months was the punishment. I'm not the maternal sort and apart from the horror of this, the thought of so many others out there absolutely desperate for a child of their own - and there are deaths such as Alex's - I couldn't begin to imagine how those people must feel on reading reports of this nature.

Awful, simply awful.

I'm not diminishing the mother's responsibility, but she's been an alcoholic since she was 8 years old, and was well known to Social Services who had had several calls from worried relatives and other agencies, but still did nothing. What led them to believe that an alcoholic who drank several bottles of wine a day could look after a goldfish, let alone a baby? I have a grandson around the same age, and the thought of anyone neglecting him like that, or laying a single finger on him, would drive me to murder, I swear.