Baby Jessica Randall

After reading the comments of this thread I am in tears, theres no way I am going to read the article. I know my mind would be plagued with thoughts of what horror this poor little angel must have gone though.

all I can say is that I echo the comments of other posters.

I see no mention of the mother. where on earth was she when this poor innocent baby, the baby she carried for nine months, the baby she should have been protecting with her own life, was being tortured to death? WHERE THE HELL WAS SHE????????
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YES IM SCREAMING NOW BECAUSE THE VERY PERSON THIS LITTLE GIRL SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO RELY ON FOR PROTECTION WAS HER MOTHER.

UGGGG, MAY GOD HELP ME BECAUSE I COULD TEAR MY OWN HAIR OUT WITH ANGER AND FUSTRATION.

THAT B!"£$%D WILL BURN IN HELL FOR WHAT HE DID TO THIS CHILD.











RIP precious little angel.
 
The mother had mental issues. Seems that she wasn't capable of protecting the baby as she didn't see her baby as something special which needs care and love.
 
Then this poor little darling should have been removed from the home by social services.

What the hell is wrong with SS?


When did this news hit the headlines?
 
It was on the news today (yesterday 13th). I hadn't heard about it previously.

I don't know what is wrong with Social Services/Workers - I've frowned upon them for years.
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I couldn't live with that on my concience if I were the social worker/s involved in the case. It would literally destroy me.


Has the 'thing' who did this been sentenced yet?

and what about granparents, aunt's and uncles, health visitors, etc....surely they would have known something wasn't right.
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I know this isnt the time or place BUT.....

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Why, why, why was the child of a schizophrenic not automatically placed on the at-risk register

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Why would that be?
Mental health problem does not equal "nutter who cant care for their child".
Yes,in this case that seems to be the case but remember it wasnt her schizophrenic mother that killed her but the father with no known mental health problems or criminal record.
 
well yes, but there were plenty of 'alarm bells' with this little one, they were all ignored.
There are mental health problems and mental health problems. I'm no social worker but with a mother who seems incapable of bonding, which they had noted, maybe checking out the father would have been an idea? Or seeing if she had a mother or sister on the scene? Or reacting when the poor little thing was admitted to hospital with mystery injuries?
They were probably all too busy gaining qualifications and doing self realisation exercises.
They could all do with a spell in the real world.
 
When we have mother's who are pregnant that have had previous history of self harm as teenagers etc that are having their babies removed from them at birth....I still struggle to see how this little girl wasn't being given any specialist observation, in light of the obvious mental health issues her mother struggled with.

Of course I do not mean that anyone with mental illness (and that includes Jessica's mother) should have their babies automatically taken away from them, far from it. I was just trying to understand why the professionals that witnessed the lack of bonding and interaction between this mother, who also were aware of her personal illness, didn't intervene to support her pro-actively.

Jessica was still malnourished and underweight at the time she died, so the care extended to her by her mother was clearly failing to allow her to thrive. Of course, her father is ultimately responsible for her death and I have great sympathy for her mother as I would assume she was left devastated at her death. However, that doesn't detract from the fact that there were clearly problems with providing basic care for Jessica in those 54 days of life that should've rung alarm bells on their own merit. Her mother also failed to notice and act upon the injuries that Jessica sustained prior to the incident which ended her life.

When I worked in the mental health industry, patients like Jessica's mother would've had a social worker assigned to them to oversee their cases and regularly meet with the patient to check things were going well. I don't know if that is still the case, but if it is, you would think that a child borne to any parent whilst they are being monitored by social services would naturally become part of the "package" at the same time. Surely it isn't simply a naive assumption on my part that any such meetings between social workers or psychiatrists would have undoubtedly covered the area of parenting, talking about Jessica, observing the maternal interaction as well as discussing how Jessica's mother felt the family unit were coping? Meetings that could well have revealed issues that required further investigation.

I apologise if I gave the impression that I believe that members of society that suffer mental illness are all bound to be bad parents. I absolutely did not intend to give that image. It just seems very bizarre to me that given the mother's history, there wasn't help extended to her in order to assist her adjustment to life as a new parent. If there had, maybe just maybe, someone would've spotted the goings on and been able to save that poor little mite from the clutches of her father and a mother who seemed oblivious to her child's suffering.
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53 days old. I can't even begin to form the questions in my mind onto paper/page.

From the number of times the mother presented Jessica at hospital I would say, in her own way, she was trying to do something about it. Mental illness is an odd thing, i imagine she felt she was doing the right thing and someone would notice that all was not well.

Poor little mite. RIP Jessica
 
Ahh,that makes more sence,understand what you were saying now.

\yes, the mother \SHOULD have had a SW,a CPN and a whole host of other professionals invollved in her care who should have discretly pordded to see if she would benifit from any help with parenting from the second they knew she was pregnant.
There is normally a lot of "button pushing" to acess if the person would be a risk to tge child and these checks (although horrable for 99% ) are vital to catch the 1% that might be a danger through ignorance,illness or design.
They should also have been keeping an eye on her partner,as he would have been her main souce of suport/first one to notice any problems.

The system failed this poor baby on so many levels it make me cry sick
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How so many professionals could have missed what was happening....it's sickening but I hope there is not a backlash against people with mental health problems being parents.
This is an isolated case and in no way reflective of the parenting skills of the majority of mental health patiants.
 
The Community Psychiatric Nurses that I dealt with seemed to be more involved with administering medication and trying to ensure compliance with their care plan, more than having the capacity for intervention in their social issues.

However, I would still expect a CPN to report non-compliance of meds (should that have been the case here) or failure to make contact with patient back to the Social Workers or case load managers at their healthcare trust. I would also expect to receive feedback on the state of their accommodation if it appeared they were living in filthy squalor etc.

I cannot believe that the report has found no individuals should be held accountable. To my mind, and it's my opinion only, Jessica's Healthcare Trust is collectively at fault and someone somewhere should be answerable for failing to realise the extent of this little girl's suffering. It's woefully inadequate.
 
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A f*cking life sentence..........Such a shame torture isn't allowed.
I do hope they throw the sick bastard in with some big blokes who will make his life hell.

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At least we know his sentence will be far from easy! I expect he will have to spend most of it in solitary. To excecute him would be too kind in my opinion.
 
Words fail me...... that poor defenceless little baby!!

What is wrong with us? As a nation we have failed this little girl and something needs to drastically change! People are sick - there is no excuse for this!!

RIP Little Jessica!
 
I hate to sound so awful BUT in the report it says that SS did not notice any evidence of abuse.. here is the grim bit..
HOW DID THEY NOT NOTICE THAT SOMEONE SO TINY HAD BEEN ABUSED IN THAT MANNER??????
I'm sorry but would it not have been obvious????? Or am I being niave?
Also just want to point out that some of us and I freely admit it MYSELF included have had CPN's though mine was down to PND might be what society deem as mental BUT still make loving caring and great parents.
 
Re the input of SW's it appears that many people on this forum have very short memories, it was only earlier this week that Social Services removed childre/split families for no good reason. I do however agree that this family should have been monitored more closely, the correct services been alerted as a result of the number of visits to hospital. However it is possible that services were refused access to the house and unless there was sufficient evidence for a warrant to enter to be granted by the court, then no-one has the right to enter the house.
 
Sadly this sicko will go on a special wing with pedophiles etc who will probably sympathise with him. He won't go into the general prison population who would kill him in days. This poor little mite is not alone - the number of very young (i.e. pre-school age children) seriously abused by their parents is astounding, and virtually all these people go unpunished as they effectively destroy the childs life but don't physically kill them. Words can't describe how sick and angry this makes me feel.
 
I've just done a child protection course, the alarm bell's should have been ringing as soon as the doctors appointments were missed and she was not gaining weight it was obvious she was being neglected at the very least, do medical staff not do child protection courses?
 
Hi everyone! Does anyone know where Jessica was buried? All I know (I have got an e-mail from a friend) that she had a grandmother, but no one knows her name. No unts, uncles etc. Poor baby, sweetheart RIP. xx Kat and baby Ryan
 
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Why cant men like that just be castrated straight away. I think that any man who sexually abuses should be castrated as a matter of course.

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with a rusty knife and no anaesthetic, for preference.
 
once again i am utterly distraught and disgusted with our health and social service system.

why why why why why, they need to start being more f***ing responsible - they have this on their concience now.

as for him......words cannot express what i could do to him.

RIP little angel
 
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