Baby P review ordered.

Baby P, real name protected for legal reasons, was a toddler who died after suffering absolutely horrible abuse at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend, and a lodger in the flat where the group resided.

It's been well publicised here because the council involved was the one responsible for the death of victoria climbié eight years ago, so they look pretty damn incompetent.

A review has now been ordered into why this child died and to ascertain the root cause, plus trials of those believed to be involved.

more information here.

personally i think that this is just beyond comprehension.

i can't believe that you could willingly do that to your own baby. i'm not a parent but i want to be in the distant future, and i just can't bring myself to think of me doing that to my child.
the social services really failed this poor baby too, and the hospital, which culminated in a really appalling tragedy which has probably called a lot of people's jobs into question, not to mention the roles of social services versus the police in these cases. the real shame is that it's happened before, with victoria climbié, and something very similar happened to her.

thoughts?

there were other men in the house, but i don't know what relation they were to the baby.

edit: it was the mother and her boyfriend, i never mentioned baby p's father.