There is no excuse for child abuse.
This couple had no need to adopt a baby they were demonstrably unable to care for and are culpable for their self centered disinterest in the baby’s welfare. The British Care system failed this child miserably allowing this adoption to be finalized placing a child who had such severe injuries under this couples care where she had been repeatedly injured.
This baby had multiple injuries, broken bones, leg, ribs etc that were 5 days or more older at the time of the last incident. She had a broken leg, in Nov 2015, soon after they took her into their home when she was about 10 months old, Sept 2015. Physicians said that the leg fracture, in two places, was not c/w a fall.
On December 16, while Mr Scully-Hicks was at work, Elsie sustained a bruise to the left hand side of her forehead.
A health visitor advised Scully-Hicks to take Elsie for treatment on December 21. He allegedly lied that he had done so. On January 18 2016, Elsie suffered another bruise to her head.
Indeed there isn’t any excuse for child abuse. And when social services are more scared about not offending someone over evaluating on a very personal basis for the child’s well-being, we are in deep trouble. It gets even worse when you consider not just the cases where a child was dead from abuse like this one, but all the cases where a child got severely abused but realizing that it passed by and how those in charge of working out the child’s care couldn’t catch it. It shouldn’t be hard to know why there is so much distrust of the government in general.