[Shaun]

Tragic (and stupid) accident more than appalling neglect to me. Could've drunk anything - bleach, paint, disinfectant - but unsurprisingly the DM goes for an anti-drugs stance and wheels out the hysterical rhetoric.

Aaron had not been fed and was probably extremely hungry and thirsty when he drank the liquid

says who? A medium?

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Tragic (and stupid) accident more than appalling neglect to me. Could've drunk anything - bleach, paint, disinfectant - but unsurprisingly the DM goes for an anti-drugs stance and wheels out the hysterical rhetoric.

Doesn't matter what the substance was Shaun - it's irresponsible parenting and at it's worst.

Your hatred for the Daily Mail seems to be clouding your judgement on the issue a little - or so it 'comes over' in your posts when anything is quoted from the Daily Mail.

I'm quite sure there will be other papers covering the same story: and it will still be a cannabis plant at the root cause, as well as poor parenting.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Tragic (and stupid) accident more than appalling neglect to me. Could've drunk anything - bleach, paint, disinfectant - but unsurprisingly the DM goes for an anti-drugs stance and wheels out the hysterical rhetoric.



says who? A medium?

Jury hears she had turned his room into a cannabis factory to 'make money'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1wIGRPjB9

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Jury hears she had turned his room into a cannabis factory to 'make money'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1wIGRPjB9

Try the BBC article which I've just linked to. The one that mentions the 2 year old had not been fed.

It actually seems as though this thread is turning into less of a discussion about the awful death of this poor boy due to parental neglect: and it more concerned with trying to find fault with the Daily Mail's reporting technique. Not quite sure why that is tbh.

The facts are as stated:- brush away all the dross, and the facts still remain in respect of terrible parenting as well as the leniency of the Judge.

[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Try the BBC article which I've just linked to. The one that mentions the 2 year old had not been fed.

It actually seems as though this thread is turning into less of a discussion about the awful death of this poor boy due to parental neglect: and it more concerned with trying to find fault with the Daily Mail's reporting technique. Not quite sure why that is tbh.

The facts are as stated:- brush away all the dross, and the facts still remain in respect of terrible parenting as well as the leniency of the Judge.

I think a source should always be subjected to critical analysis, and I'm just trying to establish the facts which is difficult when the Mail sensationalises it's rhetoric about peoples deaths to get a bigger audience

I also can't find it said anywhere else that she was growing cannabis in his room

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I think a source should always be subjected to critical analysis

I also can't find it said anywhere else that she was growing cannabis in his room

I think that's all fine and well, but given that I've included a link to the BBC which contains the same wording in parts as the DM - should also be taken into account during such critical analysis ... which let's be honest: needs no analysising really.

She didn't feed her child,she left substances around that could (and did) kill her child. I'm sure many other newspapers will carry the same added trash as the DM - we don't all buy into them though - many of us are able to glean the important parts from such lower end papers.

Whether she was growing cannabis in every corner of the house makes no difference to what happened to the child.

[In the Drunk Tank]

True enough. I realise it might sometimes come across like I'm defending stupid mothers like this btw which I'm not trying to do, but it annoys me when the Mail sensationalises tragic stories just to get more people visiting their website

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by MTVN

True enough. I realise it might sometimes come across like I'm defending stupid mothers like this btw which I'm not trying to do, but it annoys me when the Mail sensationalises tragic stories just to get more people visiting their website

I understand what you are saying, I do, but that's not really the story here is it? It's not about how the DM or other such papers report stories.

Most of us are aware of the nature of their reporting - same as the red tops which are nothing more that gossip mags - most are aware of pulling the salient information from the rubbish.

As I say: it seems a shame that this discussion seems to have gone more towards slagging off the initial source of the story because it came from a DM link - rather than the story itself and the actual facts of this neglect and the intense awful suffering that a poor 2 year old child had to endure before dying. I'd have thought that was the important part of what Vicky's post was about: and in the sentence passed - and thoughts on all of that, but that's only my own view of course.