Mother Jailed for just 18 Months after Abusing Ten Children in same area as Baby P Scandal - 27th Apr 2011

A mother who abused 10 children in Haringey - the London borough where the Baby P and Victoria Climbié scandals happened - has been jailed for 18 months.

Police, who were tipped of by a member of the public, discovered the children starving, smelly, crawling with head lice and covered in dirt.

When they entered the property they discovered rotten food and a cockroach infestation.

Officers had been alerted by a member of the public who was concerned about the children’s condition and the adult nature of their conversations.

The situation was so bad that when a foster carer fed one of the children she pressed the milk bottle hard against her mouth, leaving a red mark.

The skin beneath her nappy was red-raw.

The abuse happened over four years, from 2005 to 2009. It will prompt renewed concerns about child protection standards in Haringey, where 17-month-old Peter Connelly — Baby P — died at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and her lodger in 2007, despite 60 visits by social services, police and health professionals.

Haringey was also the borough where eight-year-old Victoria Climbié died in 2000 after being beaten and starved by her aunt and the aunt’s boyfriend, who were jailed for life in 2001 for her murder.

There were 128 injuries on her body. Read More