Baby P. And Sharon Shoesmith's Case

This news talks about Ofsted failing in disclose some relevant information about baby P’s death and apologizing about that. This documents consist on drafts produced by the joint area review (jar) last November, after the trial of those who caused baby P’s death. The main failure is that Shoesmith’s team asked for these documents several times, and all of them they were told that said documents were not relevant for the case. The issue is that first the judge was told the documents were “batted off”, then that they never existed and now that they do, so he’s demanding to have them for the case.

This are really shocking news. Nowadays the abuse of children is a great cause of mortality, and having cases like this, where people just do not want to consider evidence (any of it) as important, makes me really sad. That is why we should try to humanize their parents and make good families; however they are, they have to become good parents for the future, and so cases like Baby P will not be repeated. There’s also a necessary change in the people “in charge”. They should not leave their investigations aside for other stuff and consider something as not necessary for the good ending of a trial.