Steven Barker, Jason Owen and Tracey Connolly

This is beautiful, blue eyed, Baby P, also known as “Child A ( 2 ). For legal reasons he can not be named at this time.

Baby P’s life began in a small council flat in Haringey, North London. His neglect was gradual, with his mother, Tracey Connolly, 25, leaving him unattended in his cot for hours on end.

She split with Baby P’s father when he was three months old. When her lover, Steven Barker, 31, moved in with them, Baby P’s suffering increased dramatically. While his mother was busy in online chat rooms, Barker was busy beating the boy, often swinging him around by the neck or legs and pinching him hard enough to leave bruises on his baby skin.

Barker forced Baby P to obey commands like a dog. He would click his fingers and the boy would have to sit with his head between his legs. Sometime later, Barker would again click his fingers, signaling to the child that he could sit upright again. Jason Owen, who stayed with the couple, also subjected the child to similar abuse. Owen is the creep in the photo next to Baby P. In addition to swinging the boy around he would also often sit him on a stool and spin him around until he fell to the floor.

After concerns were first voiced about Baby P’s welfare in October 2006, his mother, in the first of many lies and false reassurances, insisted that he was not abused, rather he “just bruised easily.” She claimed that Baby P was “a head banger” fond of “rough and tumble play.”

Barker claims that he wanted to, “toughen the boy up.”

The council flat where they lived was visited and was found to be dirty and smelling of urine. Baby P was removed from the home and placed with family members for a short time.

In January 2007, with no charges having been laid, Baby P was sent back to suffer even more abuse at the hands of Barker, Owen and Connolly. Baby P went without a decent meal more often than not and was often seen scrounging biscuits and food from other children and was even seen eating dirt in the garden.

The abuse escalated even more with the child being seen by medical professionals for numerous black eyes, swellings and bruising, “scalps rash,” and “ear discharge.”

Four days before his death, Maria Ward, his case worker visited the home of Baby P and says she was content to leave him with his mother as she was very cooperative and seemed to have a lot of support.

Days later, Baby P was examined at St Ann’s Hospital by Dr Sabah Al-Zayyat, a pediatrician. Somehow he failed to notice that the boy had a broken back, which is consistent with being slammed down over a bent knee or a banister, eight broken ribs and the more than 50 other horrific injuries that had been dealt to him over his short life. Some of these included, missing fingertips and nails and bite marks on his head. Two days later, sweet Baby P was dead after receiving a fatal blow to his mouth, knocking out one of his milk teeth.

After 17 months of pure agony, Baby P could endure no more. He died alone in his blood spattered cot.

While searching for some pictures of Steven, I stumbled upon these gems. I was already on edge from researching and editing this story, and Amy had done such a great job getting across the horror of Baby P’s death, that when I saw these God damned things It took all my self control to keep from bawling like a child. I’d felt as if I was set up.

And yes, those stains are blood.

The two men, Jason Owen, 35 and Steven Barker, 31 were found guilty of Causing or Allowing the Death of a Child in August 2007, with the toddlers mother Tracey Connolly, 25 also convicted of the same charge.

All three are due to be sentenced in December. They face up to fourteen years in prison. Somehow, to me, fourteen years seems like a rather short sentence. Short at the very least.

Those who should have, but failed to pick up on his abuse, namely, Maria Ward and Dr Sabah Al-Zayyat are in my opinion also hell worthy. I hope that one day soon I will be able to disclose Baby P’s name and he can finally rest in peace

UPDATE: While I was Googling Baby P in the process of editing and fact checking Amy’s story, I ran across this story in The News Of The World. Now correct me if I’m wrong all you folks across the pond. but isn’t this “newspaper” to the UK what The National Enquirer is to the United States? Well, I started reading a story about Baby P written by Carole Malone, and the more I read, the more outraged I became. Amy had made it clear in here original story how Child Services dropped the ball, and that Dr Sabah Al-Zayyat has earned herself more than an honorable mention on the roles of hell, but Ms Malone’s article got into the nitty gritty of the disaster that was Baby P’s Case File. To give you just a a little taste, the person in charge, Sharon Shoesmith, spent 6 months trying to cover the entire incident up. No harm, No foul I guess – to the Agency, that is. So here’s an excerpt from that article, along with pictures of all the principles:

Baby P: They’re ALL guilty
By Carole Malone, 11/16/2008
News Of The World

…But of all the people who failed this gorgeous boy—apart from the monsters who actually killed him—the most negligent, the most self-serving, is head of Haringey’s Child Services Sharon Shoesmith.

Because while the rest of the country was reeling from what happened to Baby P, this arrogant woman called a press conference and waved graphs in our faces about how well her department had performed.

Incompetence

Did this apology for a boss really believe that if she put on a sad face for the TV cameras she’d get away with this? Did she believe those graphs would be enough to satisfy an angry, repulsed nation and detract from her mind- boggling incompetence?

Time and again she was given the chance to apologise but she didn’t. Haringey council did (finally) but not Sharon Shoesmith. Because she knows an admission of guilt would require her resignation—and nothing is worth that, is it Mrs Shoesmith?

Not with her cushy little number—with a £110,000 salary, posh days out at the races (paid for by grateful business contacts) and her power.

This is the power that allowed her to refuse a review into Haringey’s social services department six months after Baby P’s death. The same power that allowed her to rule there had been no negligence by the council or its social workers. And I’m sick to death of people saying it wasn’t the social workers who killed Baby P, it was the degenerates who lived with him in that rat-infested hole. Yes, they kicked the last breath out of him but they’re scum—retards incapable of feeling guilt, love or compassion.
Abuse

But those social workers were supposed to be better than that, professionals who were trained to spot the early signs of abuse. It was their job, their human duty to protect vulnerable children.

We presumed (wrongly) that they were more intelligent than Baby P’s killers, which is why we expected Maria Ward on one of the 60 times Baby P was visited to insist his mother washed chocolate off his face so she could inspect him for bruises.

And why, knowing the history, didn’t she demand to check his body for injuries? She knows full well that scumbags like these killers routinely lie and cheat. But more sickening is that these social workers and executives did a better job at covering their own miserable backsides than did at saving a little boy’s life.

Which is why they ARE ultimately responsible for his death. They didn’t strike the blow that killed him—but they stood by and did nothing while those three vicious bastards awaiting sentence did.

And forget all this guff about how social workers can be duped by wily parents. ANYONE with half as brain could have walked into that house and seen Baby P was in danger.

I don’t give a toss how low their wages are, how hard their job is or how understaffed they are. A vulnerable baby’s life was in danger and they left him to die out of stupidity, ignorance or because they just didn’t care enough.

And if these social workers and their bosses can’t spot a child four days from death then they’re not just in the wrong job—they’re dangerous as well.

Maybe Maria Ward, Sharon Shoesmith and Gillie Christou, the idiot in charge of the council’s child protection register, just don’t put saving babies’ lives high enough up their agenda. And maybe Dr Sabah Al Zayyat, who missed the fact this little lad had a broken spine and multiple injuries, had also written him off—though I suspect she was just a lazy cow.

ALL of these people should be sacked. Because anyone who decides to go into social work either as a worker or a boss MUST assume the responsibilities of the job.

You don’t brandish graphs. You don’t hide behind the “stress of form-filling”.

Part of the job is looking after defenceless kids, and if you’re not prepared to do that then shove off and go stack shelves in Tesco.

And forget the excuse that there are procedures to be followed before a child is removed from its family.

Sub-human

We all know kids aren’t taken away when they should be—because it’s cheaper to leave them where they are.

Dr Sabah Al Zayyat

Moreover social services know full well that some families are simply sub-human dross who shouldn’t be allowed near kids.

And that’s what we have to address now—this underclass, this group of deviants who’ve been allowed to take root in this country and who kill, maim and torture without guilt.

These are people who have sponged off the welfare state their whole lives and who believe nothing is their responsibility, their fault or their problem.

For too long we’ve tap-danced around these people because of political correctness. The problem was too sensitive to talk about—let alone handle. But handle it we must, because if we don’t this underclass will become even more savage, more feral—and more innocents will die.

Baby P’s mother is so unaware of the gravity of what she’s done she’s telling people she’ll be home for Christmas with the baby she gave birth to in prison.

Which is why all three responsible for killing Baby P MUST get the maximum of 14 years. Because if they don’t, as a society we’re saying his suffering and his death were for nothing.

And Ed Balls needs to stick his inquiry where the sun don’t shine because four ministers in his government knew about the situation that led to Baby Ps death two years ago, and they did nothing.

Inquiries don’t save children’s lives. Direct action just might. So every executive, every social worker involved in this tragedy must not just pay but must be prevented from ever being responsible for children ever again.

These social workers and executives at Haringey behaved the way they did because they believed there’d be no consequences for their negligence, and they assumed this government didn’t have the guts to take them on.

Well, that has to change. And in order to enforce that change, Sharon Shoesmith has to go. Gillie Christou has to go. Maria Ward has to go. As have those idiot Ofsted inspectors who gave Shoesmith a glowing report just weeks after Baby P’s death.

As for that excuse for a doctor—Sabah Al Zayatt—she needs to be struck off immediately before any more kids die.

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