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How could they do that to Baby P

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

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By Eddie Nestor

As I sit here feeding my beautiful bundle of joy I am listening to the long list of failings which led to the death of Baby Peter.

Of course after the death of Victoria Climbe this was never supposed to happen again; especially not in the same borough. Baby P was visited 60 times by various social services and suffered horrific injuries at the hands of his mother, step father and lodger.

All three have now been given indeterminate jail sentences and I imagine when I get to work today I will field a number of calls from people calling for the death Penalty.

How could anyone hurt a baby? How can a woman go through nine months carrying a child and then hurt or allow anyone else to hurt him.

Those questions will have to be answered by people more intelligent than me but I can’t help thinking that that the inevitable consequence of this case will now be “presumed guilt” when dealing with parents as regards their children.

When your children fall down the stairs, burn themselves or hurt themselves in any way, expect a call from the social services.

Instead of indignation I ask you to greet their enquiries with kindness, their questions with patience and their doubts with understanding. If all the agencies had worked together and the correct questions asked then maybe that little boy would still be alive today.

HOWZAT!!!!

It has also been a sad week because of the conviction, on drug smuggling charges of a cricketing enigma, Chris Lewis. In his playing days he came to be known as the ‘prat without the hat’.

This is because on a tour to the Caribbean he went out uncovered in the midday sun and promptly got sunstroke. Obviously the sun was not impressed by the fact that he was born in Guyana and came to Britain when he was 10.

Anyhow he and a friend were caught on the way back from St Lucia trying to smuggle liquid cocaine, with a street value of 140,000 into Britain, in fruit juice tins.

It is sad that someone so talented succumbed to temptation in this way. He and this ‘friend will now have 13 years to think about whether the risk was worth the price. Very little sympathy for him on my Face book page but I feel sorry for him.

If one youngster is put off trying to make a quick buck by foul means in this way then maybe some good can still come from a bad situation.

Chris was a good all rounder in the game but now may well find it difficult to bowl a maiden over, he may find he has to use his overarm to defend his middle stump


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