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Mother sentenced for twins’ deaths

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Babs03 Sat 25-Jan-25 15:54:40

I agree. Where was the help/support??
Adult social care is so under funded in this country. This poor woman should have been assessed and given the mental health care she needed and the children fostered until she had recovered enough to look after them.

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JdotJ Sat 25-Jan-25 15:52:02

Where was the father ?

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SusieB50 Sat 25-Jan-25 15:51:33

Exactly this , where was the help and support? I would have struggled to cope singly with these four little children and I have no mental health issues . What is the point of putting this poor poor woman into prison hasn’t she suffered enough?

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Margiknot Sat 25-Jan-25 15:49:29

It’s a tragedy all round.

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watermeadow Sat 25-Jan-25 15:39:17

She has serious mental heath problems and was a lone parent to two sets of twins, just a year apart. It is impossible that she could have coped.
The house was dirty and untidy. Of course it was. She left the children alone to go shopping, which she must have known she shouldn’t, but it takes about half an hour to get four small children ready to leave the house and imagine the difficulties of getting four lively under-fives along busy roads to the shop, then back again.
A nursery would not allow one adult to do this. Why was she not given the help she desperately needed?
Losing her whole family in a fire, knowing it was her fault, is punishment enough, without locking her up for ten years.
I feel so sad and angry.

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