Re: BABY P
What a can of worms...
I'm not looking to excuse the actions of those involved here - just take an objective viewpoint rather than jumping on the KILL 'EM ALL bandwagon. The problem with that is where do you start and where do you stop.
Isn't it highly probable that Baby P's mother and the other two reprobates are as damaged as they are due to the abuse they received in childhood themselves? It could be argued that they have been failed by a society that was unable or unwilling to detect or prevent the abuse they received and that has helped to shape them into the monsters that they are today.
So the abused grow up with their warped ideas of normality and the pattern of behaviour is repeated. This time a child dies.
If Baby P survived, he would have been at a higher risk of becoming an abuser in the future. Then the lynch mob that are out for his carers for what they did to him, would want to do worse to him instead. The tabloids would tell us to no longer feel sorrow for him - just hatred and outrage.
At what point does the abused become unworthy of our sympathy? Is it when they are no longer a child? Evidently not considering the Bulger case. Is it when they start to act out what has happened to themselves and become the perpetrator? That's not one that's easily answered. My wife suggested that it tends to be when they don't look cute any more - and I think she may have hit the nail on the head.
Spending half an hour in a cell giving someone a kicking when they've probably had worse from people who were meant to love them and look after them isn't really going to have an impact.
It's all very well jumping up and down baying for blood - but there are people paid to stop this sort of thing happening. The system is broken and is letting everyone down.
Let's hope the other four kids get everything they need to break the abuse chain.
What's the long term answer? Eugenics?
Last edited by AlanH; 11-08-09 at 10:35 PM.
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