And You Thought Your Parents Were Bad

Maybe they were worse than this particular couple, but if they were, you'd probably be reading this from some sort of asylum by now.

The case of Baby P caught my attention today, the poor child unfortunate enough to be born to the woman who caused his subsequent death. In case you're unfamiliar of the details of the case, a young British woman aged 25 had a little baby boy in March 2006 and months later broke up with the father of the child and got friendly with another guy. Normal so far. The new boyfriend moves in and suddenly there are bruises appearing on Baby P's, Peter's, body. Months later, the boyfriend gets his friend to stay with them, who was on the run from his wife, with his 15 year old girlfriend. Several welfare visits later (around 60 over a span of eight months) and enforced trips to the various doctors, and arrests and temporary stays of the child with a family friend while his mother stayed in jail for a while after a fresh set of bruises were discovered, Baby P was taken to hospital with a broken back and ribs, none of which were discovered by the doctor who attended to him.

One day in August 2007, at the grand old age of 17 months, Peter was found dead in his blood spattered cot. Oh, and during the subsequent court proceedings where his mother and her boyfriend were put on trial, it was found that the latter was also guilty of having raped a two year old.

There are lots of questions to be asked: Why didn't welfare take him in before it was too late? Police who'd been to the premises before claimed she was a 'slob' and would incessantly be either on the Internet or watching TV, leaving the baby to its own devices and the house reeked of urine and she seemed to care more for her three dogs than her son. Why was such a woman allowed to raise a child? If she did not want a child, why didn't she just abort it or give it up for adoption? I mean, it isn't as though she feared social stigma, was it? How does the earth breed idiots like this? Why am I blogging about something that happened two years ago?

This is why safe sex should be advised Mr. Joseph Ratzinger. This is why abortion shouldn't be illegal, Mr. Conservative (a lot of politicians I hate on that list so can't name them all here). This is why morons shouldn't be allowed to have babies. Sure, kids aren't the most loveable things on earth but if you must have them give them a life of dignity. In a way, I'm glad that kid died when he did. I'd hate to see what all that violence would have made him grow up to be.