I think that is guaranteed. There will be violent and ruthless inmates who will patiently wait to take any opportunity to do them harm - and officers who will look the other way.
If there is a heaven and Little Arthur was looking down in the 6th minute I hope he realised that he was indeed loved, I hope he was over the moon with 10s of thousands of people showing their emotions for nobody but him. It was his moment that was robbed from him by the people who should have been there to protect and love him. God Bless little man.
Does it make me less of a person that I can't read or watch anything about this case? It feels like it does and I should be ashamed I dont want to read or watch anything about this lillte boy that was let down by so many people. I applaud you all that can and do help other in and around your communities, I wish I could be have enough on with a disabled daughter and a son that needs a full autism assesment thanks to his school refusing to help
I watched it and wished I hadn’t, since I watched it I can honestly say I’ve thought about him several times a day and shed a few tears. I’m a dad and a grandad and have seen things like this in the news for years which I think sadly has become the norm, I always feel the sadness and feel for the poor kids that become victims to these vile pieces of ****. This time though actually seeing him barely able to stand, stick thin and actually saying nobody loves me has had a big affect on me. I can honestly say I’ll never forget him. I have a family member who works for social services and I could never do what he does, I would get emotionally involved and would probably find it hard not to play the father role and try and protect these kids. It’s all very sad and I keep giving my 4 year old grandson that little extra tight cuddle.
Aye worst thing I have watched. I don't cry, had some lashings over the years and not a year but that honestly, made a few come down the cheek. Worst of the worst.
I’m with you. I’m a dad of two and have purposely avoided reading in any detail of it. I simply can’t comprehend how anyone can do this to a child jet alone their own. I have a 6 year old and it just upsets me to read about stuff like this.
I read the newspaper article and that was enough. My wife was telling me about the video where he was so weak he couldn't lift a blanket and was crying about no one loving him and not feeding him. I refused to watch it. The hardest thing to get out of my head is all kids in these cases die thinking no one loved them! I have been able to ask my little lad seen he could talk do "Do you know that I love you" and his answer is along the line of "yeah dad I know cause you tell me a million times a day". It gets to me that they went through that and the people that are meant to keep them safe didn't and were the ones that hurt them.
I think the point of it is to raise awareness, so people go on to help good causes like you mention. A small percentage people in those crowds or watching on tv will go on to do something positive to help children in bad situations.
It would be nice to think that but the Facebook 'organiser' made no mention of anything like that, a missed opportunity imo. The extensive TV coverage, and social media, had already raised awareness. That hopefully made people involved in the care of vulnerable children, the government and the general public take a look at themselves. Sadly I don't believe a minutes clapping will make a difference although you'd hope it would.
They are 100% right too. Otherwise they wouldn't be dead. We talk about social workers missing things that undoubtedly contributed massively to these cases but where are the extended family? Aunts, Uncles, grandparents? Surely they had some contact at various points through all of this and spoke to this kid about how he was getting on. The fact social workers were involved leads me to believe anyone who knew them closely knew something was off kilter. Maybe this is another hidden consequence of Covid, lockdown and remote appointments/lack of in person contact?
I totally agree with everything you've said there, the concept of family seems have to changed doesn't it. However I think there's a bigger change in society in general as is shown by the way people are so deliberately aggressive and argumentative. It's one thing for violence and hate to be shown in films etc, but even the Soaps are full of gangsters, fighting and evil. Mrs Smug watches Emmerdale at 7pm, when impressionable young kids will be at home, and I find it shocking. At the moment there's a storyline of a deranged young woman grinning while she goes around finding evil ways to murder people for no good reason. Coronation Street is full of gangsters, murders and violence. It normalises aggression and confrontation to the point whereby young people grow up thinking it's normal. Social Media is rammed with shouty people disagreeing with other people just for fun and being hateful as a way to fill their time. When a 12 year old girl is stabbed to death, on a busy Liverpool street, you know that our society has serious problems that'll get worse if we don't all make them better.
Grandma loved him and reported the bruising she saw on the poor lads back at first sight. Social Services visited the family said there was nothing amiss and that he was part of a happy family.
Oh yes it’s definitely a societal problem and as you say everything boils down to the lowest common denominator on what used to be soaps that more or less reflected life in the past which are now unreal depictions of things all because they feel it’s what people want. I don’t watch any of them because they have turned to utter bollocks in the past 5 years. It all started to unravel when we started promoting women to behave like men I feel so now it’s a direct competition between so called equals and unfortunately it’s only going to get worse with loutish behaviour everywhere you look. We are also going to see more and more victims of this epidemic cos there’s no boundaries these days and women will often come off worse in any physical confrontation with a man - not just those armed with a knife either. Men are doomed though because to act in any other way towards women other than treating them like you would another bloke makes you a misogynist sexist pig and to expect men to look out for anyone deemed vunerable or weak in any scenario now goes against the conditioning of most who are also victims of the decline of what I would call societal norms from the past. Sad really.
Well that’s a sad indictment of the quality of social workers in that area. They should have been watched closely and with suspicion rather than left to their own devices to continue with the abuse. The power of hindsight I suppose. There will always be those that slip through the net especially where devious evil bastards are involved. I wonder if they spoke to the lad in the absence of the “parents” during this investigation? He was old enough to be able to tell them of the abuse I am sure and I am sure would not have portrayed a happy family from his point of view.
I know. Yet this has been a recurrent theme in so many child abuse fatalities over decades and the local authorities are always going to learn the lessons.