As a result, what has appearing routinely in the media is the suggestion that Baby P was subjected to a serious and sustained level of abuse over a period of months prior to his death - the Daily Telegraph headed up one its articles with the claim that
“Baby P was used “as a punchbag” during eight months of abuse”
while The Times upped the ante by claiming that Baby P after…
“17 months enduring abuse of an almost unimaginable cruelty…”
That last statement will surely be news to the child’s natural father, who lived in the family home for the first three of those 17 months according to The Times - or maybe its five to six months, which is what it states in Haringey’s serious case review, which also points to ‘limited efforts made by professionals to involve child A’s father in the early period of intervention’ as one of the shortcoming’s identified, with hindsight, in their own handling of the case.
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