Beggars Belief

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7438365.stm

The above story of how a twenty-two year old woman in Lincoln left her two year old boy alone in her flat for the weekend while she went to be with her boyfriend quite simply beggars belief to any right minded person.

How anyone can do such a thing is beyond me. I do wonder why some people have children if caring for them, looking after them and raising them to be a respectable human being is too much of an effort. My daughter Laura is also aged twenty-two and she has two lovely children, Jack aged three years and Hannah aged ten months. Jack and Hannah never go short of love and attention and if Laura needs some 'me' time - as we all do occasionally - she knows her mother and her old Dad are there to look after the wee scamps.

Reading of child neglect chills me to the bone as it will most people and particularly those who have children of their own. There is no cry worse than that of a child. What that little boy in Lincoln must have gone through, especially at night when it was dark and he was on his own, frightened, dirty and hungry, can only be imagined. The fact that his mother is out on bail and awaits sentence after the judge receives background reports perhaps tells us much about the British justice system.

No background report in the world can justify what she did.