June 28, 2008

bad parents

Recently there has been a big fuss in the news about child neglect cases that has been discovered.

A few weeks back the police found 18 month old twins dead in their Sydney home. They had been look into their bedroom. The dad apparently knew nothing about this (even though he was at home) the mum's responds when the police found them was "oh, I guess I didn't feed them enough". I feel so sorry for those kids.

Then this week a family with several children who used to live in Victoria had their children taken away from them. The children are severe malnourished and filthy but it seems like they will be alright after proper medical treatment and care.

This lase case have caused the public to demand child protection do their job better and also share information with agency in other states. This family had raised concerns when they lived in Victoria. The neighbors had called the child protection, but when investigations started the family upped and moved to South Australia. Police was finally able to intervene after one of the children had been hospitalized which cause the authorities to check on the rest of the children in the household.

I will never understand how anyone can treat children like that.



2 comments:

Irishembi said...

It's sickening isn't it? There has to be something fundamentally "broken" inside these people that allows them to neglect and abuse their own children this way when by instinct they should be protecting and caring for them.

Anonymous said...

Yea .. they are bakaris.

-Guess who-