Baby P and the legal politics of parole which shames his memory
by Archbishop Cranmer:
Baby P was Peter Connelly. He was born on 1st March 2006, and died on 3rd August 2007. That’s him above. A lovely little blond haired, blue-eyed baby boy, reaching out to explore the big wide world and smiling for joy, as all children should. That was Baby P. He was called Baby P because he was tortured to death by his mother and her boyfriend, and his name couldn’t initially be released to the general public, so Baby P is who he became in death. But he’d probably prefer that now, if he’d reached the age of 16, just to rid himself of the stain on the name of Connelly.
Baby P is back in the news because his mother, or birthing parent (because she really was no kind of mother) is being released from prison on parole. She was given an indeterminate prison sentence, and has been released before but was returned to prison for breaching her bail conditions. There are some, of course, who would rather she never be freed, probably preferring to throw away the key and leave her to rot.
It’s easy to forget why Tracey Connelly evokes such a reaction. Baby P was the subject of a blogpost on 18th November 2008. The old Archbishop Cranmer ‘Blogger’ site had to be deleted many years ago, and all was lost. But it’s amazing what can be discovered and re-created. Read and weep:
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