Very harrowing tale, however the mother of Daniel Pelka and her partner have been jailed for life for the four-year-old's murder.
Magdelena Luczak, 27, and Mariusz Krezolek, 34, must serve a minimum of 30 years each for what the judge called their "incomprehensible brutality".
Not sure if Judges can now recommend that EU citizens can also be deported post sentance, with a recommendation that UK re-entry can be barred as well ?
Anyway, with this case and countless others before it we are all told that a Serious Case Review (SCR) by Coventry's Safeguarding Children Board will now occur and report back in circa 6 weeks time.
The point of the Serious Case Review is not to name and blame individuals or agencies, but rather to look at where improvements in practice need to be made in order to limit the risks to other children and young people.
There were 39 published in 2011, 37 in 2012, and 13 so far in 2013, question is will it actually make any difference ?
Yes evil people exist, but why does this keep happening ?
Will any disciplinary action be brought agsinst those concerned ?
What a tragic story and one that we hear about way too often. Social workers often get the brunt of the blame, but Social Workers are hugely overworked and are leaving the profession in droves. Often Councils only have a very small amount of Social workers on hand to deal with cases, and the sad plight is that there are not enough Social Workers out there to deal with the ever increasing amount of child abuse cases.
For every one that hits the headlines there are another hundred that fail to. We were told after the Victoria Adjo Climbié case that there would be huge changes, and then the very same Authority had to deal with yet another tragic case that we are all too familiar with, the Baby P case. So many chances missed by all the agencies and when the investigation happens into the death of the latest tragic case, once again the agencies will have missed the obvious. From what I have read this little boy was hugely underweight. Neighbours were feeding him in the street, days before he died his teachers must have seen some of the little boys injuries and yet it seems did nothing or very little to help him. I simply cannot imagine what this little boy went through with the systematic torture and then the knowledge that nobody was paying any attention to his needs, and nobody there to protect him. How utterly horrific that must have felt for this little lad.
Sadly this will continue to happen where you have horrid parents, and will continue to be missed when the agencies continue to have their budgets cut to the bone. Sad but true.
when you hear of what that child suffered at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend it makes my blood boil. lets just hope that the prisons they are sent too have a good supply of salt and the other inmates know what to do with it.
people who committ these crimes do not deserve to live ......end of
