Experts warn of rise in deadly child abuse fuelled by Covid restrictions
by Elizabeth Haigh, Daily Mail:
Lockdown restrictions at the height of the Covid pandemic were used ‘as a cover’ by abusers to hurt their children, an expert has said, after the ‘evil’ parents of 10-month old Jacob Crouch were this week jailed for his murder.
Jacob is just the latest in a string of tragic, fatal cases of child abuse to have emerged from the pandemic including that of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Lola James and Star Hobson.
Experts have told how usual safeguarding methods or chances to spot serious abuse such as schools, health workers and children’s clubs were absent or moved online during the pandemic, meaning abusers could harm children in their care with impunity.
Just this week 10-month-old Jacob’s killer stepfather was jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years, after the infant was found dead with dozens of injuries and at least 39 rib fractures in December 2020.
Now national child abuse charities such as the NSPCC are warning of the rise in deathly harm which occurred during lockdown, and the impacts which are still coming out of it.
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