Thought this would be useful for the court case
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8055340.stm
It gives information on what sentencing was give to Tracey Connelly, Stephen Barker and Jason Owens. I also hadn't realised that aswell as being sentenced for causing Peters death, Stephen Barker was also sentenced to life for the rape of a two year old. He was also acquited for both murder and manslaughter!!
Aswell I also found out my new name for the court case Judge Stephen Kramer.
This next link is to the transcripts of the sentencing so you'll be able to see what was said by the judge, I think this will come in handy for the court case.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/22_05_09_sentencing_remarks_baby_p.pdf
Friday 27 January 2012
Smacking Debate
So this week we've had to look for articles on the 'Smacking Debate' I think this is an interesting subject as peoples opinions can depend on their culture.
The article below is a new article that was written after 'that' episode of Coronation Street.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/18/coronation-street-smacking-row-should-parents-be-allowed-to-slap-their-children-115875-23705138/
It gives the opinions of two proffesionals, one is for smacking, the other against. I think I would definately agree with Phillip Noyes of the NSPCC, surely there is other ways of disciplining a child, I know from personal experience that if I got smacked it wouldn't stop me from doing what I did wrong again, I would just run away faster! I always found that hearing the dreaded words "I'm dissapointed in you" was a lot worse than a smack.
However some cultures agree with smacking and think it plays a vital part in disciplining children, we watched a video in Fionas lesson about smacking called 'Smack and I'm Proud' and I'm sure you'll all remember the lady with the fish slice, well she thought it was okay as it was in her culture.
The link below will take you to a forum about the programme so you can see what others thought of it.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10917898
Then this link is an article about the TV show
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-406087/Proud-smack-children.html which points out some of the key things that were said on the show and the opinions of the parents that smack.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/parenting-discipline-smacking-is-it-really-so-bad-416324.html This article is written by a lady that believes in smacking but also believes that it has become socially unexceptable in middle class society and therefore many people will deny smacking their children. I found this article interesting as many peoples opinions are taken into consideration. A child psychologist and childrens rights campaigner both say it is wrong, on the other side a friend of the journalist, the journalist herself and Tana Ramsey (Gordans wife) say it is okay to smack.
So what do you think??
The article below is a new article that was written after 'that' episode of Coronation Street.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/18/coronation-street-smacking-row-should-parents-be-allowed-to-slap-their-children-115875-23705138/
It gives the opinions of two proffesionals, one is for smacking, the other against. I think I would definately agree with Phillip Noyes of the NSPCC, surely there is other ways of disciplining a child, I know from personal experience that if I got smacked it wouldn't stop me from doing what I did wrong again, I would just run away faster! I always found that hearing the dreaded words "I'm dissapointed in you" was a lot worse than a smack.
However some cultures agree with smacking and think it plays a vital part in disciplining children, we watched a video in Fionas lesson about smacking called 'Smack and I'm Proud' and I'm sure you'll all remember the lady with the fish slice, well she thought it was okay as it was in her culture.
The link below will take you to a forum about the programme so you can see what others thought of it.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10917898
Then this link is an article about the TV show
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-406087/Proud-smack-children.html which points out some of the key things that were said on the show and the opinions of the parents that smack.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/parenting-discipline-smacking-is-it-really-so-bad-416324.html This article is written by a lady that believes in smacking but also believes that it has become socially unexceptable in middle class society and therefore many people will deny smacking their children. I found this article interesting as many peoples opinions are taken into consideration. A child psychologist and childrens rights campaigner both say it is wrong, on the other side a friend of the journalist, the journalist herself and Tana Ramsey (Gordans wife) say it is okay to smack.
So what do you think??
Thursday 12 January 2012
Victoria Climbie
So for Lins lesson I've decided to look at the Victoria Climbie case, the information below is a complete timeline from the BBC as well as the link for it.
2 November 1991:
Victoria Adjo Climbie is born near Abidjan, the Ivory Coast.
November 1998:
Seven-year-old Victoria Adjo Climbie leaves Abobo in the Ivory Coast to lives with her aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao initially in Paris. Kouao takes the girl to London after she is pursued by French authorities over benefit payments.
April - June 1999:
On arrival in England, Victoria's name is given as Anna because of the assumed identity on the false passport used to get her into Europe.
Kouao takes a job as a hospital cleaner and the pair initially live in a hostel in north London. Some weeks later Victoria is on a bus with her aunt when they meet Carl Manning, the driver, for the first time.
July 1999:
Kouao and Victoria, who speaks no English, move into Carl Manning's home in Tottenham, north London. Within days, Victoria would be suffering abuse at the hands of Carl Manning. That abuse would lead to her torture and death.
14 July 1999:
Kouao: Pretended to care for Victoria
Victoria makes her first visit to the Central Middlesex Hospital after the daughter of her childminder suspects the girl has non-accidental injuries. The doctor accepts Kouao's story that Victoria has inflicted the wounds on herself by scratching at scabies sores.
During this period, doctors alert child protection authorities as a precaution. Haringey social worker Lisa Arthurworrey and PC Karen Jones are assigned to the case. They later cancel a home visit scheduled for 4 August after hearing about the scabies.
24 July 1999:
Victoria is taken to North Middlesex Hospital's casualty department with scalding to her head and face. Doctors immediately suspect that the injuries have been deliberately inflicted.
Kouao tells Lisa Arthu4worrey and PC Jones that she poured hot water over Victoria to try and stop her scratching her scalp. She says that Victoria caused other injuries with utensils.
6 August 1999:
Victoria is discharged from the hospital and is collected by Kouao after her explanation for the injuries is accepted by child protection authorities.
October 1999
Trial evidence reveals that from October 1999 until the following January, Carl Manning forces Victoria to sleep in a bin liner in the bath every night at this flat.
1 November 1999L:
Kouao tells social workers that Carl Manning has sexually assaulted Victoria. She withdraws the accusation the next day. PC Jones is asked to investigate why but takes no further action after her letter to Kouao remains unanswered.
24 February 2000
Victoria is rushed to North Middlesex Hospital suffering from a combination of malnutrition and hypothermia. Doctors later transfer her to an intensive care ward at St Mary's Hospital in west London.
25 February 2000:
Victoria is declared dead at 3.15pm at St Mary's Hospital.
Dr Nathaniel Carey, the Home Office pathologist who examines her body, finds 128 separate injuries and scars, many of them cigarette burns, and describes them as "the worst case of child abuse I've encountered".
The Climbie trial
Carl Manning and Marie Therese Kouao are charged with the murder of Victoria Climbie. During police interviews both claim that Victoria was possessed.
November 2000:
The trial opens with the prosecution making it clear that the blame lay not only with Kouao and Manning in the dock but child protection authorities who had been "blindingly incompetent".
Manning denies murder but pleads guilty to child cruelty and manslaughter. Kouao denies all charges.
12 January 2001:
Almost a year after Victoria Climbie's death, Manning and Kouao are found guilty of her murder.
Sentencing both of them to life imprisonment, Judge Richard Hawkins says: "What Anna endured was truly unimaginable. She died at both your hands, a lonely drawn out death".
The Inquiry
April 2001:
The government announces a public inquiry into the death to be headed by Lord Laming.
The inquiry is the first in Britain to use special wide-ranging powers to look at everything from the role of social services to police child protection arrangements.
Ministers make clear that they expect the inquiry to scrutinise the child protection system and not just the failings in the Climbie case.
May 2001:
Lord Laming opens the inquiry and in an unprecedented move calls both Marie Therese Kouao and Carl Manning to give evidence. He says the killers should appear at the inquiry to help it establish where the authorities failed to stop them.
The inquiry is split into two parts. You can read the key stories on the Victoria Climbie special report.
The first part or phase takes the testimony of more than 230 witnesses including neighbours, child protection officers and high-ranking social services officials.
During this phase, the inquiry heard allegations of racism, incompetence and agencies neglecting their duty of care to Victoria. The inquiry hears of 12 occasions when agencies could have intervened and possibly saved the girl's life.
The second part during 2002 uses a series of special one-day seminars to bring invited experts together to debate the nature of the child protection system and help Lord Laming draw up his conclusions.
July 2002
Lord Laming reopens the first phase of the inquiry after it emerges that a critical document by social services inspectors had not been revealed to his team.
August 2002
Carole Baptiste, one of the key social workers in the case, is found guilty of failing to attend the public inquiry and fined $500.
November 2002
Two further social workers at the heart of the Victoria Climbie child abuse scandal are sacked for gross misconduct. Lisa Arthurworrey and her manager Angella Mairs are dismissed by Haringey Council in north London following disciplinary proceedings.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2062590.stm
I can't believe that there were so many times that people could have saved Victoria and that they believed some of the stories that her aunt fed to them. I mean the story about the scalding to her head, whether that was the reasoning behind it or not surely it isn't acceptable to pour boiling water over a child's head??
It really is worrying that it takes cases like this and the death of a young child before child protection authorities investigate and set laws in place.
2 November 1991:
Victoria Adjo Climbie is born near Abidjan, the Ivory Coast.
November 1998:
Seven-year-old Victoria Adjo Climbie leaves Abobo in the Ivory Coast to lives with her aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao initially in Paris. Kouao takes the girl to London after she is pursued by French authorities over benefit payments.
April - June 1999:
On arrival in England, Victoria's name is given as Anna because of the assumed identity on the false passport used to get her into Europe.
Kouao takes a job as a hospital cleaner and the pair initially live in a hostel in north London. Some weeks later Victoria is on a bus with her aunt when they meet Carl Manning, the driver, for the first time.
July 1999:
Kouao and Victoria, who speaks no English, move into Carl Manning's home in Tottenham, north London. Within days, Victoria would be suffering abuse at the hands of Carl Manning. That abuse would lead to her torture and death.
14 July 1999:
Kouao: Pretended to care for Victoria
Victoria makes her first visit to the Central Middlesex Hospital after the daughter of her childminder suspects the girl has non-accidental injuries. The doctor accepts Kouao's story that Victoria has inflicted the wounds on herself by scratching at scabies sores.
During this period, doctors alert child protection authorities as a precaution. Haringey social worker Lisa Arthurworrey and PC Karen Jones are assigned to the case. They later cancel a home visit scheduled for 4 August after hearing about the scabies.
24 July 1999:
Victoria is taken to North Middlesex Hospital's casualty department with scalding to her head and face. Doctors immediately suspect that the injuries have been deliberately inflicted.
Kouao tells Lisa Arthu4worrey and PC Jones that she poured hot water over Victoria to try and stop her scratching her scalp. She says that Victoria caused other injuries with utensils.
6 August 1999:
Victoria is discharged from the hospital and is collected by Kouao after her explanation for the injuries is accepted by child protection authorities.
October 1999
Trial evidence reveals that from October 1999 until the following January, Carl Manning forces Victoria to sleep in a bin liner in the bath every night at this flat.
1 November 1999L:
Kouao tells social workers that Carl Manning has sexually assaulted Victoria. She withdraws the accusation the next day. PC Jones is asked to investigate why but takes no further action after her letter to Kouao remains unanswered.
24 February 2000
Victoria is rushed to North Middlesex Hospital suffering from a combination of malnutrition and hypothermia. Doctors later transfer her to an intensive care ward at St Mary's Hospital in west London.
25 February 2000:
Victoria is declared dead at 3.15pm at St Mary's Hospital.
Dr Nathaniel Carey, the Home Office pathologist who examines her body, finds 128 separate injuries and scars, many of them cigarette burns, and describes them as "the worst case of child abuse I've encountered".
The Climbie trial
Carl Manning and Marie Therese Kouao are charged with the murder of Victoria Climbie. During police interviews both claim that Victoria was possessed.
November 2000:
The trial opens with the prosecution making it clear that the blame lay not only with Kouao and Manning in the dock but child protection authorities who had been "blindingly incompetent".
Manning denies murder but pleads guilty to child cruelty and manslaughter. Kouao denies all charges.
12 January 2001:
Almost a year after Victoria Climbie's death, Manning and Kouao are found guilty of her murder.
Sentencing both of them to life imprisonment, Judge Richard Hawkins says: "What Anna endured was truly unimaginable. She died at both your hands, a lonely drawn out death".
The Inquiry
April 2001:
The government announces a public inquiry into the death to be headed by Lord Laming.
The inquiry is the first in Britain to use special wide-ranging powers to look at everything from the role of social services to police child protection arrangements.
Ministers make clear that they expect the inquiry to scrutinise the child protection system and not just the failings in the Climbie case.
May 2001:
Lord Laming opens the inquiry and in an unprecedented move calls both Marie Therese Kouao and Carl Manning to give evidence. He says the killers should appear at the inquiry to help it establish where the authorities failed to stop them.
The inquiry is split into two parts. You can read the key stories on the Victoria Climbie special report.
The first part or phase takes the testimony of more than 230 witnesses including neighbours, child protection officers and high-ranking social services officials.
During this phase, the inquiry heard allegations of racism, incompetence and agencies neglecting their duty of care to Victoria. The inquiry hears of 12 occasions when agencies could have intervened and possibly saved the girl's life.
The second part during 2002 uses a series of special one-day seminars to bring invited experts together to debate the nature of the child protection system and help Lord Laming draw up his conclusions.
July 2002
Lord Laming reopens the first phase of the inquiry after it emerges that a critical document by social services inspectors had not been revealed to his team.
August 2002
Carole Baptiste, one of the key social workers in the case, is found guilty of failing to attend the public inquiry and fined $500.
November 2002
Two further social workers at the heart of the Victoria Climbie child abuse scandal are sacked for gross misconduct. Lisa Arthurworrey and her manager Angella Mairs are dismissed by Haringey Council in north London following disciplinary proceedings.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2062590.stm
I can't believe that there were so many times that people could have saved Victoria and that they believed some of the stories that her aunt fed to them. I mean the story about the scalding to her head, whether that was the reasoning behind it or not surely it isn't acceptable to pour boiling water over a child's head??
It really is worrying that it takes cases like this and the death of a young child before child protection authorities investigate and set laws in place.
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