Review on cases of child abuse by Rose Ibom-Etim

Skyla Giller (10 months)

2017-11-07 12:40:16 UTC

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

Keegan Downer

2017-11-07 12:41:00 UTC

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.

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.

2017-11-07 12:45:54 UTC

Victoria Climbe

2017-11-07 12:46:22 UTC

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 ,

Baby P

2017-11-07 12:47:14 UTC

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.

2017-11-07 12:48:48 UTC

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:

Hamzah Khan

2017-11-07 12:56:12 UTC

Types of abuse:

Hamzah Khan

2017-11-09 21:09:30 UTC

Types of Abuse:

2017-11-10 09:27:53 UTC

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?

2017-11-10 09:36:05 UTC

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.

Daniel Pelka

2017-11-10 09:44:58 UTC

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.

Amy and Owen Philcox

2017-11-10 13:23:36 UTC

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.