Finley Thomas: Mother Admits Cruelty To Young Person

[mikey4444]

At last she come clean :::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-36540981

Look at this smashing little fella....a wicked, wicked woman.

[youngmafbog]

A sad case all round this one.

[murraymints]

so sad

[Cloverjo]

Very, very sad. Poor little boy. I will never understand how people can hurt tiny children.

[Sqad]

\\\Look at this smashing little fella..\\
Eh? he looks a cheeky, naughty, petulant little rogue to me.

However, no excuse for such parental behavior.

[ummmm]

Sqad!!!! He was 17 months old for goodness sake!

[Copacetic]

\\Eh? he looks a cheeky, naughty, petulant little rogue to me.\\

You always get that one person who likes to post things for shock value and attention.

[Tilly2]

No doubt that this will be another of those 'lessons will be learned' cases.
They never are, though. It keeps on happening.

[ummmm]

But it doesn't say whether they were on social services radar.

[Tilly2]

No, I know, Ummmm. The trial continues.

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - //Eh? he looks a cheeky, naughty, petulant little rogue to me. //

You never waste an opportunity to remind us that you are a straight-forward 'man's man' who wouldn't stand any nonsense from a tiny vulnerable helpless child.

Good to know that as a society, we don't mete out protection based on idle nonsensical ill-founded groundless perceived levels of imagined bad behaviour by unrelated adults - isn't it?

[Old_Geezer]

Sometimes a situation is sufficiently serious that a light-hearted jest is going to create a lot of flak.

[ummmm]

I d think social services get a hard time. Unless he's been brought into hospital with suspicious injuries previously or was showing signs of neglect at his check ups then SS would have no idea he was in danger.

They also have no control or probably no idea who a single parent is letting into their home.

Abusers are good liars.

[andy-hughes]

Old_Geezer - //Sometimes a situation is sufficiently serious that a light-hearted jest is going to create a lot of flak. //

Sometimes, it's better to leave out the 'light-hearted jest' in the first place - we call that appropriate judgement on here.

[Tilly2]

I wasn't knocking social services, Ummmm. I know how difficult it is for them.
I suppose my comment was about the inevitability of this kind of thing happening on a regular basis. Nothing seems to change.

[ummmm]

I know you weren't, Tilly, it's just lessons can't be learnt unless a child is already on the radar (which they might have been)

[Sqad]

\\\\he looks a cheeky, naughty, petulant little rogue to me. \\\

That is my opinion..."to me".

\\You never waste an opportunity to remind us that you are a straight-forward 'man's man' who wouldn't stand any nonsense from a tiny vulnerable helpless child. \\

Ridiculous statement......I haven't posted more than a handful of posts on this sort of topic in a decade. Yes...I am a straight forward man's man.....anything wrong in that ?

\\Sometimes, it's better to leave out the 'light-hearted jest' in the first place - we call that appropriate judgement on here.\\

Again, your opinion........not necessarily mine.

[ummmm]

But you have made it clear on how you feel about children on numerous occasions, Sqad.

[Bathsheba]

Bad form Sqad, bad form.

[Sqad]

Ummmm....I thought that was one of the functions of AB.
Baths..Why?

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - //Again, your opinion........not necessarily mine. //

Indeed not - but as I pointed out, your 'man's man' persona will not let a little thing like sensitivity prevent you from sharing your sledgehammer wit with the rest of us.

My opinion - but you may find it attracts a degree of support, which is unlikely to bother you in the slightest.

I wish I was a 'man's man' - it would stop me feeling sad and angry for the horrible treatment meted out to defenceless children, then I could make pointless humourless jibes on threads like this ...

no, on second thoughts, I am delighted to be who I am.