L Ia M Fee ?

[anneasquith]

This wee boys murder won't be making any headlines I suspect. 2 years old, murdered by his parents . ( sorry no link) RIP.

[anneasquith]

Is this where we are now, parents let babies and children down, social services and multiple agency's let them down. Who is left to protect our young vulnerable wee ones. ?

[ummmm]

Social services are given a hard time. They have loads of families to deal with. A good liar slipped through the net.

Ultimately it's the parents fault. They didn't take the children to regular check ups so it wasn't until the little one was in nursery that the alarm was raised.

[anneasquith]

I have friends who are social workers( iin the childcare department) they are at breaking point one a weekly basis.

[mikey4444]

Reading the BBC ink, its clear that this little lads violent death was avoidable.

"Social services had been alerted to the Fees but had failed to take any action"

"His nursery had alerted social services, worried by a change in Liam, and the fact that he was losing weight and had a number of injuries"

"Liam's childminder had also made her concerns known"

"A senior Fife social worker admitted to the court that at one point Liam "fell off their radar".


Just like poor Daniel Pelka, this boy was tortured and killed, and the authorities should have protected him, but didn't.

Apparently, Fife Child Protection Committee is to carry out a significant case review.

So...... it won't happen again, .....well not until the next time of course.

Cases like make me physically sick.

[hc4361]

I hope your revulsion is due to the parents monstrous behaviour, mikey.
The blame is squarely with them

[mikey4444]

HC....." for evil to prevail, all it takes is for good men to do nothing"

It was preventable. The Authorities have already admitted that they failed the little lad.

Of course the horrible women are to blame. There will always be horrors like this couple, but that is why we have systems in place to prevent atrocities like this. And they failed, utterly.

[naomi24]

I just watched a report of this on BBC news. Why? Why do these monstrous people do this to little children? What's it all about? I simply do not understand the mentality.

[naomi24]

I think Social Services give the benefit of the doubt too often - and so often they are wrong.

[albaqwerty]

Over the years, I've seen and read stories (as I'm sure you all have) of the 'natural' parent taking up with a new partner and the new partner is jealous and either bullies them to pain the child or does it themselves.
Whichever it is, blooming horrific.

Mans inhumanity to man

[hc4361]

Maybe Social Services need more power. A lot of people think they have too much already.

[ummmm]

Social services can't win.

[hc4361]

They really can't, ummmm

[mushroom25]

just taking a lead from a post from yesterday, i wonder what form of "community or transformative justice" the national union of students would propose in this case?

[naomi24]

^I wonder?

[Peter Pedant]

yes anne it led the one o'clock news today on the Beeb

[agchristie]

Maybe a referral to Social Services?

[lynbrown]

I do hope the two older boys have been fostered?

[mikey4444]

Lyn....we don't know yet what sentence these two murderers will be given, but its safe to say that the other two boys will be grown up before they get out of prison.

[naomi24]

I didn't realise that the boy they tried to frame for the murder is only seven years old!

http://news.sky.com/story/1704675/liam-fee-pair-guilty-of-horrific-murder

[EDDIE51]

The parents are lesbians more concerned with each other than with the child.
Know a Lesbian couple, I would not want them anywhere near a child.
They want a child but have spent 2 years now arguing over which of them will be 'Birth Mum' and how to arrange the conception. The arguments are often violent. I know that is just one example but the reports about this couple make me think that they may be 'of the same mold'