Alphabet Soup and Paedo Hysteria.
Kevin Harrington appears to have spent most of his working life immersed in alphabet soup. He is the author of Serious Case Reviews ranging from Child ‘A’ in London, through Child ‘C’ in Portsmouth, inexorably onwards via Child ‘K’ in Southampton – I’m sure if Kevin dug deep in his filing cabinet he could have produced a serious case review into a Child ‘Z’ for me.
It is a murky unpalatable soup. Each letter stands as memorial to a child’s life that was carelessly dropped by its parents and subsequently slipped through the fingers of the child protection ‘experts’ supposedly waiting to catch those vulnerable children before they fell to the ground.
No doubt Kevin’s work is pored over the lawyers employed by the various Social Services organisation he has dutifully inspected – ‘Can we be sued?’, ‘Who by?’, ‘How much of a case have they got?’; the media will grab hold of the executive summaries in one hand and the Holy book of Hyperbole in the other and rattle off the 750 words required to fill the space next to double glazing advert; possibly an employee or two flicks through it to see if their name is mentioned – but does anybody else ever read Kevin’s life work?
The latest report to emerge from Kevin’s desk is that of ‘Child K’.
‘K’ had a name once upon a time, back in the euphoric bloom of the maternity ward, it was decided he should be called Blake. Seven years later he is just ‘K’ for short – and supposed anonymity.
When Blake was born, his Mother was living with ‘C’ – ‘C’ innocently thought he was Blake’s father, possibly even arrived at the maternity ward with a dog-eared bunch of filling-station flowers. He wasn’t. That honour fell to ‘A’ who had enjoyed a brief respite in Mother’s bed. ‘X’ thought that he was the Father of ‘Ks’ sibling – but he wasn’t either – that turned out to be ‘C’ who had been told that he was Blake’s father when he wasn’t….look, I can see you are going to get confused here, so here is a chart to help you through it – not that any of it matters one jot, because they were all so busy lying to each other, to say nothing of lying ‘with’ each other than nobody was looking after Blake.
One of them fed him some Vodka to keep him quiet, another ran some porn movies on the TV to keep him amused – and in between Blake managed to ‘walk into’ various objects, including a hot iron, and sustain a catalogue of injuries. Adult bite marks appeared on him as a result of one or more of the adults putting him to bed…as they do, you know how it is when you have children, a friendly nibble gets out of hand….
Somewhere along the line, his penis became bruised. He gathered black eyes and bloodied eyes, as kids do – nothing to alarm Social Services. At one point, Blake hit another child in the face, and when challenged he said ‘that is what Daddy does to me’ – alarm bells rang and it became a ‘child protection issue’. Don’t be daft, not protecting Blake – but the child he had hit.
Eventually, after coming to the attention of various adults who should have been protecting him on 18 occasions without any action, Blake did the only sensible thing left – he died. He died of his injuries whilst in the house with two of the adults supposedly caring for him.
Now Kevin Harrington’s report is exhaustive and details the 18 occasions when someone who is paid to keep an eye out for kids like Blake failed in their duty. Lessons will be learnt, and probably the main one is that they need more funds, for more staff and more training. T’was ever thus.
What I want to know is outside Kevin’s remit. It is this.
How in God’s name could the CPS have decided that there was ‘insufficient evidence’ and it was ‘not in the public interest’ to take any action against the three adults involved in his care? This is what they say:
“The Crown Prosecution Service considered carefully the file of evidence provided by Hampshire Constabulary in relation to the death of Blake Fowler. We were asked to consider if there was sufficient evidence and whether it was in the Public’s Interest to prosecute a range of potential offences including child cruelty through neglect and manslaughter. After careful consideration we were not satisfied there was there sufficient evidence to prosecute anyone with any offence.”
This is the same CPS that will pursue anyone with vague celebrity through Hell and high water for ‘touching the breast of a mature woman’ 30 years ago; the same CPS that will drag defendants back through the courts time and time again, on the basis of one allegation from one individual – but given a host of individuals prepared to state they were witness to this little boy being grievously injured on several occasions, they don’t think there is ‘sufficient evidence’ to at least put all three adults in the dock and let a jury decide which one of them was ultimately responsible for his death?
This is the same CPS that has incurred legal fees running into millions in their pursuit of headlines and celebrity cases. The same CPS headed by a woman who wants to ‘make it easier’ for middle aged matrons to bring cases against the celebrity they threw themselves at years ago. The same CPS forever chasing headlines with their courtroom-steps statements and grandstanding.
People will blame Social Services for Blake’s death; underfunded, demoralised, poorly trained and overworked social workers will take the blame. Kevin Harrington will submit his invoice for detailing the mis-management. Perhaps the neighbours will shout and boo a few times at the adults involved. Maybe a few lessons will be learnt; we live in hope.
Meanwhile, the paedo-hysterics continue over at #CSA central; MPs grandstand, Mark Williams-Thomas builds his career on Paedotainment. Try shouting Blake Fowler at them next time they pipe up – see if there’s even a flicker of recognition at his name…maybe if we can turn little Blake into a celebrity they might be interested in mounting a prosecution?
Meanwhile, if you want to know what child abuse is really like in the real world – try reading this.
- Moor Larkin
February 23, 2015 at 9:12 am -
Ah the CPS. Indeed. Who’s the Daddy.
- corevalue
February 23, 2015 at 9:22 am -
This made me cry tears of anger and frustration.
- The Blocked Dwarf
February 23, 2015 at 10:08 am -
Fuck all my usual libertarianism, my Christian duty to forgive and to love my fellow man. Some people just NEED killing.
- Moor Larkin
February 23, 2015 at 10:17 am -
Yeah, but once we’ve killed all the social workers and lawyers, who’s gonna look after the kids?
- Robert the Biker
February 23, 2015 at 11:11 am -
Let’s just kill all the useless fuckers, call it an object lesson!
Then we say to the shitheaded ‘parents’;
” Look after your kids, don’t knock them about, or we’ll send people round to make YOU cry”
They say the burnt hand teaches best, always found it was the thick end of a pickax handle myself.- Moor Larkin
February 23, 2015 at 11:22 am -
Violence might be part of the answer…
Pg.62
“Professionals may have been intimidated by Mr X, a violent man. His refusal to engage with any professional was not challenged. SCRs have frequently found that practitioners fail to make a connection between being intimidated themselves and the probability that a child would feel similarly threatened.”- JuliaM
February 23, 2015 at 11:25 am -
Moor, sounds as if they lack empathy.
- Robert the Biker
February 23, 2015 at 12:04 pm -
What they mostly lack is common sense! They are too busy being all touchy feely and non-judgemental to see that a thuggish bloke and a professional victim tart of a mother who cannot keep fathers of kids worked out without a scorecard equals battered kid.
The coppers used to have special people for this, they were called right bastards and you did not on any account want to be on the wrong side of them – big with extra helpings of ugly! Funny thing, like most really hard men, they had soft centres and did not on any account thump women or kids, nor were they inclined to stand still while others did so.
Pal of mine once worked in the back office at the DSS andwas occasionally called to the front by the cry of ‘Miiiiiccckkk’ as a scrote kicked off! Mick is 6foot 8 nor is he small with it, it was amazing to watch the scrote calm down!
Talking works with the intelligent who can, lets face it, get overwhelmed occasionally, with the thick and thuggish asking is useless, you TELL them and then back it up!- sula
March 31, 2015 at 4:14 am -
It’s incredible then that any child neglect or abuse happesn when all we need is your handy, laminated score card to tick off offenders ‘most likely to’ and lock them up before they breed. Forced sterilisation of the great unwashed would be a good long term plan but meanwhile if we can persuade some of those Gene Huntesque enforcers you seem so excited by to come out of retirement then at least we can sleep easy in our beds.
- sula
- Robert the Biker
- Anne.
February 23, 2015 at 12:32 pm -
It seems if anyone can intimidate these ‘professionals’ then the likes of Mr X and others can get away with awful crimes such as this, when I used to stand at the school gates, I saw some intimidating types there, women as well as men, the school staff were afraid of them.
- JuliaM
- Moor Larkin
- Robert the Biker
- Moor Larkin
- JuliaM
February 23, 2015 at 10:27 am -
By the strangest of coincidences, this case is also the topic of my 3rd post for today…
“How in God’s name could the CPS have decided that there was ‘insufficient evidence’ and it was ‘not in the public interest’ to take any action against the three adults involved in his care? “
Simple answer? They are institutionally lazy.
- GildasTheMonk
February 23, 2015 at 11:09 am -
True – unless there is some “celeb” to pursue!
- AdrianS
February 23, 2015 at 8:57 pm -
Sounds like they’ve lost their way, and are more interested in driving up rape conviction rates then protecting kids. I suspect white working class kids aren’t seen as people worthy enough of protection
- GildasTheMonk
- JuliaM
February 23, 2015 at 10:28 am -
“People will blame Social Services for Blake’s death; underfunded, demoralised, poorly trained and overworked social workers will take the blame. “
But funding & demoralisation don’t seem to have been factors here. At all.
- acousticvillage
February 23, 2015 at 10:31 am -
I don’t know how anyone could read either Anna’s analysis or the original report without crying. I don’t know how people like Kevin Harrington and others in his line of work shield themselves from the horror when trying to put together an objective report – hopefully they have a way of doing this without cracking up.
As someone who is participating in Lenten observance, this story is truly a challenge. The notion of forgiveness seems to be unjust if I am thinking about Blake. The instinct to hate is probably going to perpetuate this sort of abuse towards children. What to do?
Pray. Pray with all your heart.- The Blocked Dwarf
February 23, 2015 at 10:52 am -
“I don’t know how anyone could read either Anna’s analysis or the original report without crying”
Oh I was tearful alright but I suffer from IED and those tears are merely a symptom, a precursor, of ‘psychotic rage without the psychosis’. There are ‘mothers’ who need to be pulled up short…of the bottom of the drop.
- Moor Larkin
February 23, 2015 at 11:03 am -
I think the “mother” of BabyP was the first out the nick, followed by one of the “fathers” but the other “father” will be in for much longer, if not forever because he later got turned over for another case of child abuse, but that one was much more serious than battery and murder. It involved sex…
- JuliaM
February 23, 2015 at 11:26 am -
Yes, and she’s just gone back in again for…*deep breath* …offering photos of herself to perverts.
- JuliaM
- Moor Larkin
- The Blocked Dwarf
- Engineer
February 23, 2015 at 10:47 am -
Underfunded? Government spends about 46% of national wealth at the moment; somewhere in the region of £750billion a year.
No, it’s not underfunding. It’s blithering incompetence, political correctness, arse-covering and bureaucratic pig-headedness. Not limited to social matters, I might add.
- Ms Mildred
February 23, 2015 at 11:15 am -
It is going after the easier targets after CPS have set the ground rules, keep changing the goal posts. Bust prodding/groping, whatever that means, 30, 40 50 years ago is far more serious than using a young child as a punch bag NOW. Just put them in court and let the jury hear some witnessed say what they have seen, and let a jury decide. If guilty put them away for a long time. I’m not sure why hormone fuelled groupies are more favoured than a helpless child. The child is dead. The ex groupies are very much alive. They should be campaigning to help these poor children, not extracting money off the rest of us for an allegedly stroked back or a kiss on the inside of the cheek that lasted a split second.
- Moor Larkin
February 23, 2015 at 11:23 am -
Pg.62
“The domestic abuse of Ms L lies at the heart of these events… they … lost alertness to the possibility that Ms L was both a victim and a perpetrator of abuse” - AdrianS
February 23, 2015 at 8:58 pm -
Well said!
- Moor Larkin
- GildasTheMonk
February 23, 2015 at 11:19 am -
Here are a couple of reasons. One is that the CPS is target driven. It is under pressure to produce “good” results in terms of its percentage rate of convictions. Thus if there is any difficulty in the case and there is a way to avoid running the case, they won’t run it: thus they achieve a “high” rate of conviction. Another reason is that a criminal case might uncover some dirty laundry in terms of general incompetence down at Social Services. We wouldn’t want that exposed, would we?
Next, and importantly, the alleged perpetrators are not D list “celebs”, and there is no sex involved as such. As our learned editor has noted, had the case involved a DJ from Radio Rutland touching a 15 year old girl’s bottom in 1965, then the CPS would have been all over this like a cheap suit, wheeling out the most capable QC’s and launching a general trawling exercise. Hundreds of “victims” would have come forward and ambulance chasing lawyers would have opened a special office nearby.
It is this disparity, this inversion of priorities, that so irks me about Yewtree
Here endeth the rant- Anne.
February 23, 2015 at 12:35 pm -
Gildas the Monk, thats true..spot on.
- AdrianS
February 23, 2015 at 9:00 pm -
Spot on Gildas
- AdrianS
- Anne.
- Cloudberry
February 23, 2015 at 11:25 am -
That’s outrageous. Don’t they even consider the nature of the evidence or do they just go for whatever might secure a conviction? Surely they also have a responsibility to recognise when evidence seems too good to be true and verify how it was obtained rather than just hand it over to a jury to decide.
- John Derbyshire
February 23, 2015 at 11:29 am -
The problem is that it is hard to convict in our system of guilty to proven innocent in these type of cases. The evidence could come from other children, easy targets for Lawyers, Judges, who arrived from Planet Eton/Harrow , the jury system, the words beyond reasonable doubt are difficult in these cases.
As for the social services , I went to university with these people many years ago, and to be honest most had little idea of the profession they where going to enter and seemed no to have any understanding of the people they would be dealing. The course filled their heads with Marxist/Sociology, Psychology of a dubious nature, and has been largely refuted. Social Policy that had a left wing bias and in them days condemned society, need I go on. Then when finally getting their pieces of paper they entered the real world of the physical and sexual abuse abuse,, crime, unstable relationships, the mentally ill. Then comes the paperwork, meetings case conferences. After a while, the social worker realises they are not solving society’s problem and the job becomes stressful and worst of all they are criticised by the client, their boss, and the media. Its a job I would not want, and personally I think the training is too much theory and Ideological.- Engineer
February 23, 2015 at 12:33 pm -
A great deal of truth in that. I think that it was something of a mistake to hand ‘social work’ over to specific government departments staffed by people (however decent they might be) with a three-year degree but very little life experience. One does wonder if a more informal network of experienced ex-coppers, vicars, district nurses, midwives, teachers etc might not be more effective in the end; the community looking after itself, rather more than abrogating responsibility to the salaried staff of a local authority or government department, who inevitably end up having to protect their salary and pension because it’s the only means of earning an income they have, and especially so if that’s the only way they’ve ever known of earning a living.
Maybe, to slightly develop a thought I expressed above, social services depertments are grossly overfunded. Maybe if they had much smaller budgets (but much better links with all sorts of other people who interact with the general public in the course of their normal business), it would focus efforts where it would really make a difference, because there wouldn’t be time for too many meetings and generally unnecessary bureaucracy and box-ticking, arse-covering paperwork. (It was certainly the case in my professional field that the projects run on a shoe-string went far better than the heavily-funded ones; it concentrated the mind on the essentials, with no time or money for distractions and fripperies. I’m not sure how directly the management of complex engineering projects would translate into the management of social problems, but the common factor is people – and human nature doesn’t change much.)
- Mudplugger
February 23, 2015 at 3:54 pm -
Indeed much of the excess cost in the current system comes from the compulsion to create and maintain ‘multi-disciplinary teams’ to cover any issue, a very expensive compulsion.
These are never aimed to provide a comprehensive care approach for the subject, rather they exist simply to create a comprehensive defence shield for any individual staffer or department. That way, when anything goes wrong, the only ‘blame’ could ever be attached to an inanimate committee, not any of the individual components of it, be they employees or separate departments. And these all require lots of members, lots of time, lots of travel, lots of expenses and not a drop of real case-work support. After which, they’ve no budget or resources to provide any real active care.
To be fair, it is not only in social work where this practice is rife – most public bodies default to such ‘cover our own arses first’ priorities – it’s a total accountability-free zone.- Engineer
February 23, 2015 at 6:25 pm -
Thanks, Mudplugger – you put it much better than I did.
- Engineer
- Carol42
February 24, 2015 at 3:42 am -
When I was young , child protection was by what we called ‘the cruelty man’ usually ex army and ex police and they were not afraid, as the current middle class social workers seem to be, of the more challenging ‘clients’. I also think compulsory sterilization should be an option, a bit drastic but better that than more children suffer.
- Mudplugger
- Engineer
- Lizzie Cornish
February 23, 2015 at 11:57 am -
Those within The CPS should be brought to trial themselves over what is now happening within this abhorrent and (in my view) utterly feminista-driven scourge of our once proud legal system.
Banging often innocent men up for crimes they’ve never committed, or a touch on the bum (from which a pathetic excuse for a woman shrieks ‘I may NEVER recover from what he did!’) means FAR more to them now than the lives of battered and bruised children in the here and now…
It has become an obscenity and it is one about which we should be taking to the streets in angry protest…
I despair, and mourn, for the country I so once loved.
This poor little boy’s hell should be on their conscience for the rest of their days, but sadly, I doubt they’ve even given him a thought today, so busy are they pursuing their Witch Hunts against old men….
- AdrianS
February 23, 2015 at 9:04 pm -
Hear hear!
- AdrianS
- Alexander Baron
February 23, 2015 at 11:57 am -
Excellent but sad analysis. At paragraph 8.12.3 it says even the kid’s grandmother tipped off the local authority. I don’t see this bloke can be blamed, all he has done is written a report after the event, I would hardly call it a case review. It beggars belief there was no prosecution at all. They should have charged the lot of them with murder and let them sort it out in court.
- Tom O’Carroll
February 23, 2015 at 12:40 pm -
Shocking, hard-hitting, totally on-target. How can we refocus the blundering state’s misdirected efforts on child protection?
See today’s Heretic TOC ( http://wp.me/p2RR9I-e9 ) blog “Wither the punitive state?” for an attempt at a deep analysis which critiques the creaking apparatus of the modern bureaucratic state but without throwing out its saving grace: the rule of law. Also see truly profound Deep Green comment in response by Lensman.
- Alexander Baron
February 23, 2015 at 4:05 pm -
I’m sure we don’t need your advice. Why don’t you go away and write another book? But don’t do it in this country.
- Frankie
February 24, 2015 at 8:05 pm -
When the landlady rolls up her sleeves and fixes you with a stare like that of the fabled Basilisk it is time to ‘make tracks’ Tom…
- Alexander Baron
- Budvar
February 23, 2015 at 2:08 pm -
Meanwhile, if you happen to be a couple who leaflets for those neo nazis “UKIP”, you can expect the 6 o’clock knock by police and social workers and have your kids spirited away.
- GildasTheMonk
February 23, 2015 at 2:18 pm -
And if you are a dedicated and hard working childless couple, but one of you has given up smoking, don’t expect to be allowed to adopt. Plainly, no child should be entrusted to your sinister, so called “care”!
- GildasTheMonk
February 23, 2015 at 2:19 pm -
I meant to add “but who has vaped” (you know the things – e cigs). Sorry, I was in rant mode!
- GildasTheMonk
- GildasTheMonk
- JimmyGiro
February 23, 2015 at 3:07 pm -
The whole public sector is run by Marxists, and their stated aim is to destroy the heterosexual family; hence the more broken a ‘family’ becomes, the more publicity for State intervention. The Mafia sell window insurance… they also sell stones.
Regarding the celebrity witch hunts, recall it is all ‘patriarchal’ figures: “mum good, dad bad… repeat until socialist utopia is achieved”.
The public sector employ about 80% feminists, sodomites, and eunuchs; occasionally they employ a man, if he can show that he is disabled in some respect.
- windsock
February 23, 2015 at 4:03 pm -
Surely, if ever there was a case for state intervention, this was it? This “family” could not have been more broken had all the adults been pushed off Beachy Head.
- Engineer
February 23, 2015 at 6:22 pm -
Indeed so, but the problem is that the State is demonstrably incompetent (repeatedly demonstrated at that) when it comes to social work.
- windsock
February 23, 2015 at 6:48 pm -
I take your point entirely but in this case, who else was there? Teachers, hospital staff and social workers should have had blue lights flashing in their head with an internal nee-na nee-na siren going off at the same time. Who sees a child in hospital with a bruised penis and doesn’t alert someone – the police? – immediately. In this case, it is hard to see incompetent state care as worse than incompetent state uninterest.
- Moor Larkin
February 23, 2015 at 7:00 pm -
Way back when I was small some big lads were playing a game with me whereby they bounced me on their knee in some kind of horse game. I was bouncing up and down on my crotch and thought it great fun. My mum, noticed that evening that I was “all swollen” underneath and rushed me to the doctors. I explianed what had happened. I guess nowadays I might have ended up in care and seeing as everyone is saying now that there were paedo’s running all the Care Homes, I might now be a victim.
Given that anyone in the business possibly knws what “care of the State” means, perhpas the reluctance to commit without absolute certainty is not overly surprising. Maybe they are still in thrall to the lessons of ARD, Satanic Abuse and all the other false alarms the folk who would save kiddies have inflicted upon us in the last thirty years or so, and God fordid they meet a Deejay on an outing.
- windsock
February 24, 2015 at 8:39 am -
Again, I take your point, but if this boy also presented with burn marks from a hot iron and bite marks from adult teeth – how many times do you turn a blind eye? Surely GP/hospital/school records were kept of such things?
- Moor Larkin
February 24, 2015 at 9:03 am -
The case does seem to have occurred at a particular tipping-point; it dates back three years I think the report said.
“The number of children taken into care has hit a record 10,000 in one year. Since the 2007 killing of Baby P, there has been a huge surge in the number of youngsters being removed from their families by social workers. The children’s court advisory service dealt with 10,199 cases between April 2011 and March 2012 – a near-doubling of the numbers in just four years. It is the first time the body has received more than 10,000 referrals in a single year… Government statistics have shown children who spend years in care are more likely to leave school with barely any qualifications and fall into crime, drug abuse and prostitution.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128465/10-000-children-taken-care-Numbers-doubled-past-years.html
- Moor Larkin
- windsock
- Moor Larkin
- windsock
- Engineer
- Mrs Grimble
February 23, 2015 at 5:33 pm -
“The whole public sector is run by Marxists….The public sector employ about 80% feminists, sodomites, and eunuchs….”
Think you’ve left out a few, old chap. How about “harpies”,”heathens”, “nazis”, oh, and my favourite – “jack-booted homo-fascist thugs”? *
And can you tell me where I can find all these “stated aims”? Would they be on the same website that publishes the homosexual agenda?*One of the great values of wide reading is that you learn a lot of amusing and useful insults.
- Mr Ecks
February 23, 2015 at 6:20 pm -
Sorry Jimmy but the bulk of the ordinary employees of the public sector are just that–very ordinary. They can be accused of being weaklings, swallowers and moral cowards as they put up with the shite handed out by their bosses –but so does 95+% of the human race.
Your description would apply much more accurately to their bosses esp the Senior Civil Service–who are true scum.- AdrianS
February 23, 2015 at 9:07 pm -
I work in the public sector— sounds about right
- AdrianS
- JimmyGiro
February 23, 2015 at 6:48 pm -
“And can you tell me where I can find all these “stated aims”?”
Try “Das Capital” [Marx and his sugar daddy]; and “The Socialist Phenomenon” [Igor Shafarevich]; if your reading can stretch a little wider?
- The Blocked Dwarf
February 23, 2015 at 7:02 pm - windsock
February 24, 2015 at 8:40 am -
Oh, I was expecting the Frankfurt School and Gramsci!
- The Blocked Dwarf
- Mr Ecks
- windsock
- Joe Public
February 23, 2015 at 4:17 pm -
Thanks for giving this sad & demoralising story a dose of your Oxygen-of-Publicity.
- Duncan Disorderly
February 23, 2015 at 4:21 pm -
It’s very easy to criticise the CPS, but without hearing why they reached the conclusion as they did I can’t condemn them. Certainly, we need to know why they reached the decision that they did. This may be a case where there is no law to deal appropriately with what has happened. As regards the social workers, it would appear, from my limited reading of the report (chapter 8.8), that the social worker identified as SW3 messed up seriously. I doubt SW3 is still working as a social worker.
- Jonathan Mason
February 23, 2015 at 5:03 pm -
It is also quite possible that one or more of the perpetrators is already in prison for some other offense, too. However it does seem amazing that Stuart Hall and Rolph Harris are now in prison over somewhat minor and hotly disputed offenses based on questionable witness statements regarding events that occurred decades ago in which no one was killed. However keeping them locked up should deter them from offending again, and one would think the same think would apply in the case of child K, should the parents think of having another go at breeding.
- Alexander Baron
February 23, 2015 at 9:47 pm -
Stuart Hall pleaded guilty. At worse Rolf Harris was foolish with regard to his much younger mistress. The crimes of which he was convicted never happened.
- Alexander Baron
- Engineer
February 23, 2015 at 6:19 pm -
“I doubt SW3 is still working as a social worker.”
Quite probably so. The usual action in cases like these is to promote the person concerned into a position in which they can do less harm. Seen it happen several times in large organisations.
- Jonathan Mason
- suffolkgirl
February 23, 2015 at 7:31 pm -
I should think the reason why no one is being prosecuted is simply that the perpetrators are used to dealing with the police, feel no remorse, and all deny being responsible.
Where more than one perp could be responsible for the injuries which led to death, but all keep schtum, and there is no other evidence as to what went on, then it is (apparently) nearly impossible to secure a conviction for murder, manslaughter or gbh. This at least was what I was told when long ago I was a social services lawyer working with the police. I was surprised, but was told that in fact it is pretty rare that someone doesn’t crack.
Or, alternative charges related to neglect can be brought, but this poor child doesn’t seem to have been neglected in the usual sense of the word. He was beaten to death.
- GildasTheMonk
February 23, 2015 at 8:33 pm -
On another front, I have just watched “Dispatches”. I AM SEETHING!
- Junican
February 24, 2015 at 1:48 am -
I have just finished reading the full report. Very saddening it is too.
The report is far from a whitewash, but it has certain characteristics of such. It complicates things enormously (it says that there were fifteen organisations involved in this one case). But what I was concerned about was an attempt to fix the blame for the actual missed opportunities on GPs and teachers. There was even a section which sought to criticise the ambulance crew: “7.10.1 This Trust was significantly involved in that it transported Child K to hospital after he suffered his fatal injuries. However no safeguarding referral was made by the ambulance staff involved.” And: “Most significantly the Trust confirmed that no safeguarding referral was made because the ambulance staff “thought that as the child was being taken to hospital in cardiac arrest … the investigation process would be started anyway”. Even more worryingly the response confirms that the staff in attendance “did have safeguarding concerns” but assumed that other agencies would deal with this.” Erm…. An ambulance is called and finds a child in ‘cardiac arrest’. What is their duty? Damn it! Get the kid to hospital asap – nothing else. Not to fill in forms or ‘make a safeguarding referral’.
Sure, doctors will see injured children quite often – kids tend to fall off bikes and such. If the injury and the explanation coincide, then why should a doctor suspect ‘foul play’? Unless, of course, these injuries occur too frequently to be accidents and are of a nature which could just as easily be due to mistreatment.
As regards teachers, again we have kids appearing at school with scratches and bumps, but I do feel that schools could have a role to play. That role could be to provide an easy place where a well-trained child psychiatrist could interview a child where ‘abuse’ is suspected, quietly and without fuss. The report make a lot of ‘listening to the child’, but does not suggest how that could be done in reality in private. But what we don’t want is teachers being made responsible. If a teacher suspects that something is ‘going on’, due to repeated sightings of bruising and black eyes etc, then he might quietly report the matter, so that social services could visit the school and ‘chat’ with the child. Of course, safeguards would be required to avoid ‘false memories’ being extracted.
Another thing that struck me is that nowhere in the report is there any suggestion that it could have been the mother who instigate the violence in the home. “Mr X was big and strong and intimidating” is all the report seems to say. Why did they come to blows over a computer game? Some mileage is gained from Mr X having had a session with a mental specialist (vaguely suggesting that he was mentally ill), but where were the reports about Ms L also being suspected of being mentally ill?
There were two people involved who should have been listened to very carefully – the maternal grandparent and the workers who reported to the NSPCC. Grandma wrote to the Social Services describing her fears. The workers had no axe to grind. It seems to me to clear that only ‘jobsworths’ would blindly follow procedures and virtually ignore these pleas. Gosh! The report even tries to blame the NSPCC for not following up! Why should the NSPCC follow up when it has reported the events to the social services?
Also, I find it quite incredible that the police were unable to find out what exactly happened when the child sustained the injuries which caused his death. (There again, it is perfectly possible that he fell off the couch and hit his head on the floor) You would think that trained police interrogators could have found sufficient inconsistencies in the stories of those present to at least bring charges of conspiracy to mislead.
But these things happen, and it is always easy to infer from the inadequacies of the people involved that they are criminals and murderers. If an accident of that nature occurred in a well-to-do family, everyone would be sympathetic and no aspersions of culpability would appear.- Duncan Disorderly
February 24, 2015 at 8:59 am -
To be fair, the author has to find all the errors that have been made. It is, apparently, the job of the ambulance crews to make a ‘safeguarding referral’ (presumably after treatment has been given) where they suspect a child has been harmed and that wasn’t done. So they should be legitimately criticised, though it would be grossly unfair to pin all the blame on the crew.
- Duncan Disorderly
- They fear the hare
February 24, 2015 at 11:12 am -
“Blake did the only sensible thing left – he died.”
Ironically, the complete failure of multiple agencies and professionals to select the only sensible option allowed that death to happen.
I realize that politicians are stupid, but the people who vote them into power do have to take some responsibility for this insanity
- Moor Larkin
February 24, 2015 at 11:36 am -
Hard to see what politicians have to do with any of this but the profession seems to blame them as well.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2014/10/29/politician-heal-thyself-social-work-academics-react-baby-p-documentary/ - Alexander Baron
February 26, 2015 at 3:18 pm -
Savile rapes 12 year old girl in hospital?
Anyone else skeptical about this? And where is the documentation for all these “contemporaneous” reports?
- Carol42
February 26, 2015 at 3:37 pm -
I think everyone on this site are skeptical about the whole mess, much good it will do!
- Carol42
- Alexander Baron
February 26, 2015 at 8:31 pm - Alexander Baron
February 27, 2015 at 12:23 am -
I know it’s only fiction but watch the position of this woman’s hands:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNcufzO67h4
now imagine she was a man…thirty years on, what would an accuser remember?
- Alexander Baron
February 28, 2015 at 11:50 am -
Anyone see this?
I can’t help thinking that all these nutters who are pushing the Satanic abuse plot must be responsible. Who would even have thought this conceivable at one time?
- Arnold Frampton
March 3, 2015 at 9:36 am -
Your guess is right Alexander.
In 2001 the Independent ran a story of filmed evidence of Satanists eating a baby. It turned out to be a completely false report for which the Indy had to apologise in print. The story had been brought to them by Valerie Sinason and Inspector Clive Driscoll, a Met. policeman with a background in child protection who had been seconded to work with Sinason concerning her repetitive claims of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse (Sinason is a leading member of RANS, a group of believers in SRA who influenced all the early cases.
In 2002 the SRA fanatics got themselves into the weave of British police force child protection at an influential level with the Thames Torso case;
see: http://www.saff.ukhq.co.uk/ttorso2.htm
where a child’s torso was found in the Thames and attributed by Sinason and her friends as being a Satanic Sacrifice. It wasn’t.The Met. police inspector who eventually ran the Savile Yewtree investigation also liased with Satan Hunters from the original 1989 hysteria and set up new Satanic Abuse Seminars for police forces throughout the country in 2004 years before the Savile storm hit the headlines. These seminars lead to fundamentalist inspired lies being accepted as guidelines to identify and search down abusers. Read about it here:
http://www.saff.ukhq.co.uk/winebald.htmThe strength of those who supplied Yewtree with evidence can be gauged by this report here:
http://www.saff.ukhq.co.uk/savilemonster.htm
where Valerie Sinason who had provided the Met. with evidence on SRA, claimed that Savile was a Satanic Abuser!There is therefore an unbroken direct link right back to the original failed 1988 claims. Tony Rhodes who runs the SAFF says that after 27 years of constant propaganda about the fantasised intricacies of so-called Satanic Abuse and literally thousands of books purporting to uncover it, it would be pretty astonishing if some abuser somewhere did not try out the inventions of the wicked minds of satan hunters. Although there has been no evidence of that happening this perverted and sadistic policeman’s glib comments about giving birth to a baby to murder it have probably resurfaced from the miasma of allegations made during various earlier police seminars! Evidence of Satanic Abuse it is not, but I can guarantee you it is already being projected as such by RANS and RAINS!
There has long been a cadre of Satan Hunters in the Ayrshire child protection services. The Ayrshire case in 1995 kidnapped seven children from innocent parents. An inquiry by Sheriff Colin Miller accused the social workers who pushed the case of
‘Collusion, ‘appalling’ interviewing and massaging evidence.’After that mistake Satan Hunting went underground in Scotland for some years, though we had several satellite cases including the Isle of Lewis case; all of which were false; Scotland, with it’s grim puritan beliefs, became an outpost for disaffected SRA hunters (the two social workers who caused the scandalous Rochdale SRA case took up child protection work in Scotland).
The group which coalesces social work satan hunters in Scotland in modern times is RANS, the Scottish equivalent of RAINS (Ritual Abuse Information Network & Support ) the original group which was virtually responsible for the entire 1990 scare. RANS has close links with RAINS and is based in Dundee. It has benefitted greatly from Scottish Executive largesse as the new parliament seeks projects to portray itself as radical and getting to grips with social problems like abuse.
Scottish RANS actually got a half a million pound grant from the Lottery a few years back.
Full story and background on:
http://www.saff.ukhq.co.uk/rans.htmAnyone who wants more evidence can get in touch with Tony Rhodes at the SAFF direct at:
http://www.saff.ukhq.co.ukArnold Frampton.
- Arnold Frampton
- Alexander Baron
March 2, 2015 at 6:36 pm -
Believe the children. Believe the victim!
http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/satanic-child-abuse-in-hampstead.html
Wonder what Liz Dux makes of this. These people have no shame putting videos of these kids on-line. It’s at least borderline illegal.
- Alexander Baron
March 9, 2015 at 7:12 pm -
Ritual murder is far from unknown in Africa; there are files at Kew relating to murders in South Africa and around. Also check out the Ghana ritual murder case. And there have been quite a few in recent years. It wouldn’t surprise me if this Adam case was one of those, but of course this sort of thing cannot exist on any sort of scale.
- Arnold
March 10, 2015 at 1:51 pm -
Undoubtedly there have been many killings justified by some religious ideology (isn’t that what ISIS is doing?) but one must beware of falling into the Colonialist mindset and tacitly defining killings by black people as ‘ritualistic’. That can be a form of unconscious racism. For example, all states reserve the right to execute murders (Texas has sacrificed 521 since the 1976) and that process is definitely ritualistic, right down to the religious absolution offered to the person being hanged. What we need is a sense of proportion.
SAFF research indicates that the police and the SRA hunters had to go an extra mile to reorganise evidence to suggest that ‘Adam’s’ killing was ‘ritualistic’ but almost every one of their bits of forensic evidence could have had a number of different outcomes. For instance, the traces of Calabar bean found in ‘Adam’s’ gut is used for medicinal purposes in West Africa as well as, in large amounts, for initiatory purposes. If this had been a ritual killing there would have likely been far more Calabar in the stomach than the minute traces found. This could mean that the child was trafficked into the U.K., got sick and was being treated but died because his captors couldn’t get him to hospital without revealing themselves to the authorities. After the poor kid died his captors are likely to have cut him up in order to avoid identification (a regular occurrence in ‘ordinary’ murder as the recent Becky Watts case, as well as many others, proves ). Of course all of this is conjecture but it is just as probable conjecture as the ‘ritual’ profile the police persued and the sad fact is that whilst the Met spent millions chasing up the ‘ritual’ aspect they did not to our knowledge try that line of enquiry. There are other possible scenarios, but space here is too short to rehearse them. As Arthur Conan Doyle had Homes say “”Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” The point is, which improbability is the Ttruth?
- Arnold
- Alexander Baron
March 13, 2015 at 9:25 pm -
Common sense from the press?
Convicted by the police canteen culture – Cliff Richard, Paul Gambaccini and now Harvey Proctor appear to be victims of a dubious ‘flypaper strategy’
Times, The (London, England) – Saturday, March 7, 2015
Author: Matthew Parris
In the spring of 1986 a male prostitute codenamed “Max”, hired by the Sunday People and secretly wired for sound, visited the Fulham flat of Harvey Proctor, then the MP for Billericay. Believed to have been 18 or 19, Max can be heard on tape telling Mr Proctor he was 21 – the age then of homosexual consent (now 16). Some play-acting S&M followed: rather mild by comparison with the nowfashionable Fifty Shades of Grey. That summer, over six successive weeks, the paper ran its story – on the first occasion spread across three pages of the paper.The People turned over its dossier to the Metropolitan Police, who tipped off the media before raiding his flat. Mr Proctor, who wasn’t at home, watched the circus on television. The officer in charge of the operation, after retiring, retailed his story to The Sun, also claiming there was a “call-boy network” at the House of Commons, which Mr Proctor emphatically denied. Three years ago the same source suggested to the Daily Mail (from his home in Spain) that Lord Lucan was alive and living in Africa after major plastic surgery.
Max (said Mr Proctor) initially refused to give evidence against him, until the police told him that this would be “perverting the course of justice”. Proctor pleaded guilty on learning that it was no defence reasonably to have believed a person was over 21. He contemplated suicide, “equipped myself with the pills, but did not even try to swallow them”. Bowing to the inevitable he quit parliament. The MP had endured an almost two-year onslaught during which he had been followed abroad on holiday, had his telephones tapped, and found his elderly mother terrified and distraught after trespassing reporters barged into the home he shared with her in Billericay. When he tried to start a new life, queer-bashers targeted the shop he opened and broke the nose of a visiting friend, Neil Hamilton.
So if you heard Mr Proctor when interviewed on Thursday sounding a bit tense and describing his situation as Kafkaesque, then perhaps you understand. His home in Leicestershire had been searched overnight by police as part of their “Operation Midland” investigation into historic child sex abuse.
Needless to say the media had been tipped off. The BBC bulletin that morning said: “Police investigating allegations of an establishment paedophile ring have searched the home of former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor … fined in 1987 for gross indecency.” As it happens that was Alan Turing’s crime in 1952.
Mr Proctor’s comment may not surprise you: “I do not think I’ve been oversensitive in thinking that there is an element of guilt by association in your report.” In fact the police haven’t even suggested Proctor is a suspect, but he has now been cornered into denying what nobody has alleged – triggering a new round of media headlines “Harvey Proctor denies …” etc. Kafkaesque is precisely the word.
I watched the BBC’s footage (some of it filmed from a helicopter) when Cliff Richard’s place was raided in his absence and without his knowledge, after an exclusivity deal had been done between the police and the BBC: footage the corporation then had the impertinence to enter for a Royal Television Society award. I’ve never met Cliff Richard – but heaven knows some astonishing unlikelihoods have turned out to be true in other cases – so I said nothing.
I followed the year’s hell the broadcaster Paul Gambaccini went through after his arrest on suspicion of historical sex offences as part of Operation Yewtree (dropping him as my guest on my Great Lives radio series) until, finally, no charges were brought. I do know Mr Gambaccini slightly and seriously doubted there’d be anything in this – but, heaven knows, etc – so I said nothing.
I was a friend of Harvey Proctor during his ordeals; and if Harvey (a very private man who never talked about his homosexuality even to me as a fellow-gay, fellow-Tory MP, but has had, so far as I know, not the remotest interest in children) was ever involved in a “ring of top people”, then I’ll eat my hat. But, heaven knows, etc … Or, rather, no: this time I’ll say something. I think the story’s absolute b****cks. The comment about Mr Proctor from the MP-turnedwitchfinder-general John Mann, that “the police have said they will go where the evidence takes them and that’s exactly what they should do” is disgraceful. What evidence? Does Mr Mann know of any here? I very much doubt the police do. This is nothing to do with evidence: it’s the police canteen culture talking: “He’s gay, he’s got a conviction, a loner and he was an MP, hey – let’s check him out. And tell the media. Who knows – maybe someone will ring in.”
This has been described as the “flypaper strategy” – like those massmarket tabloids that, beneath a story, append “If you have a story … (etc) phone us on 0207 … “. To advertise for witnesses, the police confect a sensation surrounding somebody interesting, raid their home and/or arrest them. The hope is that somebody may know something, and will ring in with a lead.
Why otherwise publicise the searching of Mr Proctor’s home? Why otherwise turn a raid on Cliff Richard’s home into a national sensation, when a search could have been conducted without publicity? Only in the most serious cases is this appropriate behaviour for the police, given the massive collateral damage suffered by their victims.
Add to this the substantial compensation now available to victims of “historic” sexual abuse. Very large sums of money are changing hands in compensation, there are law firms now specialising in this field, and the government has chipped in with a £5 million fund to help. The flypaper combined with the financial inducement will surely generate many spurious or trivial claims alongside genuine ones.
I know this is difficult territory.
I’m aware of the risk one takes presuming innocence. I accept that genuine public shock at cases such as Savile feeds into a general suspicion of establishment stitch-ups, morally bankrupt politicians and the abuse of power. But at some deep level people want to believe these stories are true, and a barrage of righteous anger sloshes around in search of objects deserving of public indignation. There’s a craving for evidence.
Justice is a slow, grim process, not a passionate one. Rage in pursuit of reasons for rage has a terrible potential for injustice. I must trust the cases I’ve cited are examples. Before this storm has passed I fear there will be many more. Financial inducement will surely generate many spurious claims.
- Arnold
March 16, 2015 at 6:17 am -
Well done Paris. And well done Alexander for reproducing the article here.
The SAFF has for years exposed the unedifying truth, that a major sub-text of these false allegations is a sectarian attack on and discrediting of homosexuality. We are usually ridiculed for our foresight, until the accuracy of our prognosis becomes obvious to all. Allegations of organised abuse of children in secret ‘rings’ were created from the black hearts of fundamentalist Christians (always the ones rushing to protect children from some imagined evil ) precisely at the moment when gays began winning equality for themselves during Geoffrey Dickens reign
http://www.saff.ukhq.co.uk/dickens.htm
and have been recycled on a continuous basis by other factions of the Child Scare Industry right up to the present time when MPs like Mann, Danczuk and Watson have been persuaded to take up the banner. If we are to be generous, probably unaware of the source and direction of the homophobia underlying the accusations.After decades of the police being the whipping-boys of the left, which used false tales of Freemasonic fifth columns in the police to account for their perceived institutional racism and supposed resistance to feminist ideals; forces around the country, ( now run by graduates who never pounded a beat in their lives ), gave-in and switched from investigating the truth to pacifying the media and the chattering classes, finding, astonishingly, that this actually created promotion and fast-tracked their careers. Now a phalanx of outwardy touchy-feely but inwardly hard-bitten and cynical police run through the numbers knowing that it is the Media who direct this country, not the politicians they once thought. Even after the outrageous actions of the media exposed by Leveson’s Inquiry the media still have not been reigned in or democratised. That is one reason why the democratic process is at such a low ebb in the U.K. and elsewhere.
Spokespersons for the gay community have meanwhile been exceedingly quiet, watching from the wings, presumably hoping it would all be a 7 day wonder. At last some of them, like Paris and Hastings and other commentators, realise they must admit to how the corrupt Media victimises anyone they please in order to reverse this tide of hysteria before it consumes all homosexuals over 60.
Arnold
Arnold
- Moor Larkin
March 16, 2015 at 8:48 am -
* bookmarked *
Savilisation erupted just as David Cameron was letting them get hitched.
there are no coincidences.
- Moor Larkin
- Alexander Baron
April 16, 2015 at 11:47 am -
Wondered what was your take on the Janner case. Sounds slightly different from Rolf and co to me.
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