Why I fear surrender to liberal dogma cost this little girl her life
by Julie Bindel, Mailonline:
As a long-time campaigner against child abuse and domestic violence, I have seen many appalling examples of cruelty.
But the sadistic torture of little Star Hobson in the months before her death will stick in my mind for a long time.
My anger about what happened to that poor child – just 16 months old when she died at the hands of her own mother, Frankie Smith, and Smith’s thuggish partner Savannah Brockhill – burns all the more fiercely due to one key aspect of the case.
This is that Star’s death might have been avoided had the social workers and police officers involved not capitulated in such a cowardly fashion to the forces of ‘political correctness’.
Normally I baulk at that phrase, because it implies that minorities are somehow over-sensitive in not wanting to be discriminated against or abused. As a lesbian who has faced my own share of homophobic attacks, I understand that reasonable wish.
But there is no doubt that in Star’s tragic tale those who should have saved her – and who were being paid to do so by the taxpayer – failed in their duty because they were too keen to toe a liberal line.
On no fewer than five occasions, frantic friends and relatives raised their concerns with the authorities about Star’s life at home, before former boxer Brockhill – after torturing the toddler for weeks – finally ‘punched, stamped on or kicked’ her in the abdomen, rupturing a vein which led to the catastrophic internal bleeding that killed her.
Yet, unforgivably, social services in West Yorkshire accepted Smith’s lies that the complaints were ‘malicious’ because Star’s great-grandparents, Anita Smith and David Fawcett, supposedly did not approve of Smith and Brockhill’s same-sex relationship or Brockhill’s traveller background.
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