U.K. Soft Justice, so who is left to protect the Children? - 16th Apr 2011

Below you will see two near identical articles, in both a baby dies because their mother is more interested in Facebook than their own Child. See also how two countries value the life of a child.

The life of a child, any child should be protected and when a crime is commited there should be consiquences for your actions, how else will you learn or set an example. When it comes to children in the UK this seems to be flawed as society and the systems continues to let these babies and children down, fails to protect them and fails to punish their abusers.

100.000 children go missing in the UK each year, with 95% being due to abuse at home or at the hands of a family or friend. this problem isn't getting better, lessons or not being learned from previous mistakes made within the system, and punishments seem to be in the hands of the human rights act rather than our Courts.

The NSPCC in the UK does not know exactly how many children are being abused or neglected in the UK as the UK does not publish statistics on the number of substantiated child abuse cases. However, the latest published figures show that approx. 46.700 children ar at risk of abuse right now in the UK.

In the USA there are over 3 million reports of child abuse each year, these reports can include multiple children.

* IN the USA a report of Child Abuse is made every 10 Seconds.
* Almost 5 Children die in the US each day as result of Child Abuse - 3 out of 4 of the deaths are children under the age of 4


1: UK - In December 2009 Shannon Woods, then 19 years old, left her 8 Month old baby Daughter alone to Drown in a bath, whilst she was looking on Facebook.

She was SPARED JAIL on the 4th of April 2011, even though pleading QUILTY to the charges of child cruelty and neglect.

Shannon Woods received a 12 Month Sentence, Suspended for two years. Source

2. USA - In September 2010 Shannon Johnson, then 34 years old, Left her 13 Month old Baby Son alone to Drown in a bath, whilst she was playing on Facebook.

She also pleaded QUILTY to Child neglect and Abuse and was Handed a 10 year JAIL SENTENCE - Source