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She was dropped by her foster mother which caused a head injury.
In April, Giller was asked not to see Skyla due to her troubled personal history. Her biological mother said. "I was given false hope by social workers who indicated she would be able to come home at some point.Giller said she had contested a social services application to send Skyla into care but a judge ruled against her.The type of abuse Skyla may have experienced would be neglect as the mother did not care well for her and was negligent. She had a swollen black eye and swelling to her head. The social workers did not inform Sarah Gillar the biological mother about Skyla's injuries. Skyla had an emergency brain operation, however in the morning her life support machine was turned off by doctors. Physical abuse is also likely as Skyla's black eye would not be explained by her mother dropping her.

http://www.whistleblower.co.uk/success-stories/foster-bay-death

http://www.ibtimes.com/foster-mother-allegedly-drops-baby-10-month-old-dies-after-emergency-brain-surgery-2585966

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Types of abuse:
Physical abuse - “One of her legs was deformed as a result of being broken”, battered to death,

Neglect - often left alone and even the neighbour was surprised that she never saw the child in the house.

Missed opportunities:
Doctors knew about about the mother’s drug addiction to heroin before Keegan was born. The doctors should have advised the mother to get therapy to stop taking drugs or professionals such as social workers should have monitored and supervised the mother and the child at home because they knew about the health issues of the mother.

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AMY HOWSON:
Amy Howson, 16 months old, suffered physical abuse and neglect- died.
The professionals involved missed 3 key opportunities to intervene in the year before her murder.
Indicators: Howson had history of being violent towards women when he was young; police had been previously called to a domestic violence incident involving Howson; sufficient information was held by agencies to conclude that the child was at risk of significant harm; Amy's older brother had spoken to social workers at his school but officials did not respond; Howson was expelled from school when younger and his teacher wrote a report saying "This boy will commit a murder before too long"; NHS officials were criticised for failing to spot that Amy and her brother were at risk.

AMY AND OWEN PHILCOX:

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Elsie (age 18months) suffered from pyhsical abuse from her adoptive father. He managed to pass of the injuries that he gave to his daughter as non intentional, and as an accident. Even his husband didnt suspect anything that was going on. Even the neighbours had reportedly heard him screaming and swearing at Elsie telling her to shut up whilst she was crying. she suffered from a fractures skull, broken leg, haemorrhage on her brain, broken ribs, fractured left femur and a fractured skull. 

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Elsie (age 18months) suffered from pyhsical abuse from her adoptive father. He managed to pass of the injuries that he gave to his daughter as non intentional, and as an accident. Even his husband didnt suspect anything that was going on. Even the neighbours had reportedly heard him screaming and swearing at Elsie telling her to shut up whilst she was crying. she suffered from a fractures skull, broken leg, haemorrhage on her brain, broken ribs, fractured left femur and a fractured skull. 

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Matthew Scully-Hicks described his adopted toddler daughter Elsie Scully-Hicks as "Satan dressed up in a baby grow" and joked about calling in a priest for her after discussing "the exorcist" in messages to his family and friends.

Jurors who convicted Scully-Hicks of murdering the 18-month-old were read a number of messages found on his devices.

They appear to show the 31-year-old struggling to cope with looking after her, his trial at Cardiff Crown Court heard.

Here follows a number of messages read to the jury:

:: "Tired tonight, it's the first day on my own with the kids. Went ok but Elsie didn't settle in the night and I'm going to be in for a long night :(:(:("

:: "Bit hairy around teatime lots of screaming lol. Elsie hasn't been sleeping great but I think that's a long-standing problem. I'm hoping she sleeps through the night. Fingers crossed."

:: "It's a long-standing issue. She wakes up at regular intervals during the night. She just wants to be given her dummy and attention but she has a proper diva strop about it all! We think someone used to bring her downstairs in the middle of the night which we don't do. She's pissy because we don't let her."

:: "I'm dealing with another diva strop at tea time. She practically popped the eyes out of her head. As soon as she ate it and the dessert came out her halo was back on."

:: "I'm going through hell with Elsie. Mealtimes and bedtimes are like my worst nightmare at the minute. She has been up there screaming for 10 minutes non-stop. She's just stopped but I doubt that's the last I'll hear tonight."

:: "She has just screamed non stop for 10 minutes. She had a full bottle and clean nappy. Literally not even half an hour and she is a psycho. She was knackered too so I don't get it. I left her to cry. I can't go up there every time!!! She has to learn."

:: "Yo yo well on the whole it was OK... minus lunch and tea time when she turned into Satan!!! Then again at bedtime she screamed in her cot for 10 minutes!!! lol xx"

:: "She gets so wound up when she doesn't get her own way. It is unbelievable."

:: "She is just being a pain in the ass. She was a dream until 6.30 then turned into a monster again and refused to finish her bottle. In the end I just put her in the cot, closed the door and left her. She woke again at 7.30, cried a little but then went off again. So far no more but who knows with her."

:: "Honestly she is satan dressed up in a baby grow!!! In bed half a bottle just about and screamed through it all again!!!"

:: "Elsie has had two nights of being Satan before bed which ain't fun!! What gwan with you? All ready for last day then? Xx"

:: "Whoop whoop yep still on for Thursday!! Haha she pretty much looks and sounds like the exorcist to be fair!!!"

:: "Awesome I can't wait.... If she does it too much more we will call a priest lol"

:: "No I'm stressed and I have a headache!!! She won't stop crying because she's over tired because yet again she refused to nap because we were out ... this is exhausting!!! Xxx"

What's the background to the case?

In the eight months she was cared for by Matthew Scully-Hicks, the 18-month-old suffered a series of serious injuries.

What follows is a description of those injuries, plus the explanations Scully-Hicks gave about them and the prosecution and medical expert opinion on how they were inflicted.
Date: November 5 2015
Injury: Elsie suffers a leg injury. She is X-rayed on November 12 and found to have broken her right tibia above her ankle. The X-ray is reviewed after her death and it is discovered she actually suffered a second fracture on that occasion, above her right knee

:: What Scully-Hicks claimed:

He had been looking after the toddler alone when he saw her fall while standing at an activity table in the kitchen.

He claimed at various times that she may have fallen from standing or while pushing the table as a walker, twisting her leg in the process.

Scully-Hicks' case was that Elsie may have been suffering from Vitamin D deficiency, or rickets, which could have made her more likely to suffer fractures.

Defence expert Professor Michael Holick, an American endocrinologist who specialises in vitamin D, said what had been diagnosed as fractures were "classic radiologic signs for vitamin D deficiency".

:: What the prosecution and medical experts said:

Paul Lewis QC, for the prosecution, described Prof Holick's claim as a "red herring" and added: "Matthew Scully-Hicks said a table can be used as a walker.

"Well, I could push my dining table about if I fancied but that doesn't turn it into a walker."

Prosecution witnesses including consultant paediatric radiologist Dr Sarah Harrison told jurors there was no evidence of bone disease.

Scully-Hicks' accounts of how Elsie suffered the injuries did not explain them, experts said.

Dr Harrison said: "I have never seen fractures of both bones like that in a child of this age.

"I have seen them in adults in more major traumas such as car accidents or falls from height."
Date: December 16 2015
Injury: Elsie suffers a large bruise to her head, by her left eye

:: What Scully-Hicks claimed:

Elsie was pulling herself up on a toy kitchen, holding on to the doors when they opened and "she literally went face first down towards the edge" of the unit.

:: What the prosecution and medical experts said:

Mr Lewis, who described the bruise as "horrific", questioned why Scully-Hicks had not sought medical advice for the bruise after being advised to do so by the health visitor.

He showed jurors the toy kitchen in court and asked why the bruise was vertical in appearance if she had fallen against the horizontal edge of the unit.

Scully-Hicks could not answer that question.

Mr Lewis said: "He caused that bruise to Elsie's head through violence and he was trying to disguise that act by passing her injury off as the result of yet another domestic accident."
Date: January 2016
Injury: Elsie appears to have a fresh bruise on her forehead that partially overlays the healing bruise she had suffered the month before.

:: What Scully-Hicks claimed:

He denied that Elsie had suffered a second bruise until he was shown footage from a video he sent to Craig Scully-Hicks at 5.41pm on January 18, during his evidence.

He then told jurors it did appear that she had another bruise but denied knowing how she got it or remembering it.

:: What the prosecution and medical experts said:

Mr Lewis questioned why Scully-Hicks had not been prepared to accept that Elsie had suffered a second bruise in almost exactly the same place on her head as the one in December.

He asked how a parent could not remember his child being bruised in that way.
Date: March 10 2016
Injury: Elsie falls down the stairs at the house in Wellwright Road and suffers bruises to her upper body.

Scully-Hicks calls 999 saying she is unresponsive, telling the operator that she vomited a number of times before paramedics arrived.

Injuries noted were thought to be consistent with such a fall and Elsie was allowed home after four hours' observation.

:: What Scully-Hicks claimed:

Scully-Hicks said he was sorting washing in a bedroom, with Elsie on the floor, before going downstairs, closing the gate behind him.

He came back upstairs and then saw Elsie at the top of the stairs, the baby gate opening and the toddler going "head over heels" down the stairs.

Scully-Hicks told the court he and the family look to this incident as contributing to Elsie's death. Craig Scully-Hicks told jurors: "If my daughter's head had been scanned that day I wonder whether we would be here today."

He described Elsie as sore, clingy and achy after the incident.

:: What the prosecution and medical experts said:

Mr Lewis questioned, during cross-examination, why Scully-Hicks would leave Elsie unattended at the top of the stairs.

He pointed to gaps in the banister on the landing but Scully-Hicks said that had not been a consideration.

Medical experts told jurors Elsie's injuries were consistent with a fall down stairs and some said areas of potential old subdural haemorrhaging found on her brain at the time of her death could have been caused by this incident.

They disagreed that it could have caused Elsie's collapse on May 25.
Date: May 25 2016
Injuries: Elsie dies four days after suffering subdural haemorrhaging, extensive retinal haemorrhaging, skull fracture and microfractures to three of her posterior ribs.

:: What Scully-Hicks claimed:

He told police that he had changed Elsie's nappy on the rug in the living room and had then taken her clothes and dirty nappy out of the living room.

Scully-Hicks said when he returned two or three minutes later, Elsie was still on the floor but was not breathing or moving.

Robert O'Sullivan QC, for Scully-Hicks, said it was unclear what had happened to Elsie before her collapse on May 25.

"We don't know whether Elsie stayed precisely on the floor, whether she tried to get up, whether she fell over," he told the jury.

Mr O'Sullivan said her rib fractures could have been caused by CPR and physiotherapy.

Prof Holick suggested the fractures could have been caused by Vitamin D deficiency.

:: What the prosecution and medical experts said:

Prosecutors claim Scully-Hicks gripped Elsie around her ribs, shook her and struck her head - causing fatal injuries.

Consultant neuroradiologist Dr Neil Stoodley said the bleeding on her brain was "unequivocally recent" and could not have been caused by rebleeding.

Professor Anthony Freemont, a bone and joint pathologist, said there was no evidence of Vitamin D deficiency when he looked at samples of Elsie's bones under the microscope.

He said CPR and physiotherapy can cause rib fractures but not in that location.

Dr Stephen Rose, a consultant paediatrician, said Elsie's injuries could be explained if she had been "shaken violently and that her head had been rocked backwards and forwards so that her head was flexed down on to her chest and flexed backwards" just before her collapse.

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Texts reveal Scully-Hicks struggling to cope with baby he killed

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Matthew Scully-Hicks described his adopted toddler daughter Elsie Scully-Hicks as "Satan dressed up in a baby grow" and joked about calling in a priest for her after discussing "the exorcist" in messages to his family and friends. Jurors who convicted Scully-Hicks of murdering the 18-month-old were read a number of messages found on his devices.

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Victoria , born november 1991 , was abused , tortured and unfortunately died in february 2000 aged 8.
Her parents entrusted victoria's aunt Marie kouao to escape the poverty in Africa at the time , and give Victoria a better life , with an education. Her great aunt chose victoria to bring back with her to france in order for her to receive an education , but arrived in London in April 1999. It is not certain when Victoria started to be abused , but it was suspected that abuse began when her aunts boyfriend , Carl Manning , became a regular visitor to where victoria and her aunt lived. Types of abuse include:
Severe physical abuse- severe head injuries and scarring on arms , legs , back of neck and head. She was tortured and tied up , in which she gained scars all over her body. 'she was also regularly beaten with weapons including a belt buckle, hammer and wire' (bbc.co.uk). After her first hospital admissions ,

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Physical abuse: more than 50 injuries bruises, scratches and swelling, broken back, broken rib, mutilated finger tips, missing fingernails and punched - swollen his tooth as a result of it.
Professionals that could have helped:
Repeatedly seen by children services and NHS - failed to identify or acknowledge the signs that were already there.
Child welfare - Baby P lived in the same borough as Victoria Climbie the same child welfare involved in victoria climbie case 7 years prior, ignored to improve their service.
Two doctors who examined Baby P two days before leading up to his death.

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Types of abuse:

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There were many missed oppirtunities for Victoria Climbé. Mainly starting with the fact that doctors put her scars down to ‘scabies’. The doctors and nurses who saw victoria for her injuries noted down “no child protection issues” even though suspicions had been thought of. Kouao and Victoria often went to ealing social services , due to ‘financial issues’. Another missed opportunity is when Victoria’s social worker stated that she was ‘unconcerned’ with Victoria’s care , due to Kouao having a part time job. Victoria was admitted into hospital for the second time for burns , but doctors stated there was so immediate suspicion of abuse , as she was treated for burns. Health visitors visited often , and so did social workers , so t raises the question of how was Victoria Climbés condition hidden so well?

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Victoria was often tied up in the bathroom , and was given her food on a plastic plate. The small portions were enough to keep her alive for the time being. Kouao’s boyfriend often forced Victoria to sleep in a bin liner in the bath. Kouao reported that Manning had sexually assaulted Victoria on the 24th February 2000, bit withdrawed her statement the next day. Victoria was rushed to hospital on 25th February 2000 , due to severe malnutrition and hypothermia. She was later trasferred to an intensive care ward at St Marys in West London. Unfortunately , Victoria Died at 3.15pm the same day. Pathologists who examined her body found 128 different scars and injuries, most of them cigarette burns.

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In 2005, Pelk’s parents came to the UK, hoping for a better life and to find enployment.Daniel’s father , before he is born , was often convicted for drink driving and other driving convictions. Early 2010, Daniel and his parents moved into a flat in Bedworth. Early 2011, Daniel is admitted into hospital with a severely broken arm and is kept in hospital for at least 12 hours. He often complained about the pain of his bones grinding together in his arm. Luckzac ( mother ) and her partner tell Social services and police the injury was an accident , due to Daniel falling off the sofa and falling on his arm rather hard. At this time, Daniel’s weight was recorded to be 14.8kg. A few days later , Daniel has surgery on his arm. One missed oppurtunity here , is hat Social workers later closed the case a few days after , due to ‘medical evidence’ being reviewed. In March, Luckzac and her partner move into a three bedroom property. Daniel was often ‘imprisoned’ in a small box room and Physically assaulted. Luckzac had a visit from a health professional , who investigated her home unrelated to Daniel. However , she stated that her partner had tried to strangle her due to injuries on her neck. A few months later in August , luckzac told a Healh visitor that her son was struggling with his appetite , and was referred to a nurse in his school. Evidence shows that in 2011, Luckzac and her partner were exchanging text messages often about Daniel being ‘impisoned’ and spoke about starvation also. A health visitor understood that Daniel was eating excessively in the night and he was still stuggling with eating. He was referred to a paediatrician. Daniel would often steal food from school and sometimes home , and a teacher noticed bruises around his neck later in the year that looked like pressure marks. He came in to school a few days later with what looked like two black eyes. This is physical abuse , but nothing was reported ,and was essentially a missed oppurtunity. Daniel’s weight had dropped by 1kg , and after seeing a doctor , the doctor missed the opportunity to seeing abuse. The doctor stated that Daniel was fine and it was not a cause for concern. In early 2012, teachers stated that daniel looked pasty and his eyes often looked tired and sunken.... he was later spotted eating a pancake covered in dirt. March 1st 2012: Daniel was seen to take a half eaten bit of fruit out of a bin and eat it. Why didn't anyone see this as abuse? Luckzac collected Daniel from school and was seen on CCTV. Daniel was beaten fatally, mostly around the head. He suffered a fatal brain injury and was ‘left to die’ in the box room in which he was imprisoned. The same night, both adults search patient care in a coma. The next day in the early hours of the morning, a 999 call is made and the operator is told her son is no longer breathing and was compaining of chest pains. Daniel is pronounced dead the same day. Pathologists found at least 10 bruises on daniels back and shoulders , his hair was very thin and he looked emaciated. (www.telegraph.co.uk). The police or social services were not called and both adults left the hospital, later to tell Daniel’s headteacher he had suffered Heart failure. On March 5th 2012, a meeting consisting of Police and other agencies occured. After reviewing the body, it is clear that Daniel was fatally beaten and murdered and oppurtunities to see abuse should have been reported earlier and daniel could have been saved.

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The children (aged 7 and 3 years old), were both sedated with chloroform and the father Brian Philcox locked them and himself inside his car and connected a vacuum that filled the car with fumes, killing both children and himself.
This happened because he was unsatisfied about the divorce situation.

Missed opportunities:

Him and his wife were going through a divorce and he was supposed to attend to court that week, at which his wife was trying to get possession of the family home.

He told the neighbours we would rather burn the house down than give her the house.
Philcox once took the children for about 3/4 days without consent and the couple had to go to court for an agreement.
Philcox had picked the children up from near their mother's home in Runcorn for an access visit during the divorce proceedings.

He failed to return them as agreed on the Saturday night and sent her a series of texts, one which read: "There is nothing I can do. It is out of my control. I am sorry."

Miss McAuliffe told the inquest she thought he had been talking about the car and could never imagine him harming the children.
Friends, neighbours and family members could have noticed different and suspicious behaviour from Brian.
He phoned his estranged wife telling her that he would "Make the Papers" in the hours before the killers.