Well, AC, I can't say how it is in the UK but here in the states, social services is absolutely overwhelmed with a caseload that would jam a wood-chipper. The surviving crack babies of the late 80s / early 90s are all parents of children in these cases. Can't wait for the meth baby boom in 2018.

I know, and they talk about how they want families to be functioning better etc. They absolutely need to be pumping more money into the service, if they want generations in the future to improve. But they won't

I just cant help it, when I see things like this I just want to chain the parents to a car and drag them through the streets. I know its horrible, but something in me just wants someone to pay so fucking dearly for what they did.

Or dogs. Yes, give them 30 minutes head start in a forest, and then unleash starved, vicious dogs to hunt them.

Wow. Are you guys serious? Help me out here. How can more money help this kind of thing? So maybe, sixty visits wasn't enough to spot the problem? Maybe if they JUST would have gone another 20 or 30 times, or maybe if the JUST would have had another two or three hospital visits... Then the child might have lived, what, another year? Come now.

"Oh, look! Our system of abuse prevention is horribly broken beyond hope and comprehension: Lets EXPAND IT!"

You don't need to modify government policy. You don't need to overhaul child protective services. You need to stop imagining that it's government's job to prevent all crimes. Perhaps we ought to consider the presuppositional world view held by the parents that allowed them to totally disregard the life of their own child. Perhaps we each personally ought to consider finding and disseminating a belief system that can motivate all individuals throughout all time and space to SELF-GOVERN themselves according to well defined moral absolutes.

But that would be unthinkable.

Ugh, scary.

@Sniper007

You're talking shit mate, bottom line. That system that you are talking about is an ideal. It's all very well having your opinions on what would be better in society, but in the meantime we have to work with how things are now. And more staff for Social Services would make a difference, whether that suits your view or not

This story has been exploded over every newspaper front page and been the lead story on BBC & UK TV news all of last week.

The newspapers would *love* to have mutilated child photos splashed all over their front page, but the CGI mockup is the best they have.

We have such an appetite for big controversial news stories, and if there's a taboo involved we can't get enough of it.

Tragedy! What can we blame it on this week?
Drugs?
Violent computer games?
The government?
Marilyn Manson?

Child murder and a social care institution it is then. The financial crisis and big bank stuff was getting boring anyway, at least this has a bit of *spice* to it.

It'll be hard to top this, come next Monday.

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I'm not sure if you're speculating whether i'm buying into the tabloid sensationalism Irish, but just to clarify, that isn't the case I never even watch the news, and I detest how they report it. Nonetheless, this did happen and more is going on as we speak, and as somebody who has been a part of the system and worked with Social Services closely, I absolutely know that a better service is only possible with more social workers and more funding. It won't happen though and that's what's shitty.

And yeah, the CGI pictures are way over the top, just listing the injuries is enough to make me sob

A better service is possible with more staff and more money, and as social care grows and gets bigger so will the severity and number of the cases they'll have to deal with.