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FIRST PICTURES: The chocolate smile that hid the terrible scars of abuse on tragic blue-eyed Baby P
Social services abuse of children and the Sheer scale of the injustice is far worse than anyone can imagine

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Baby P: Months after this picture was taken the child was dead after suffering a horrific catalogue of abuse

Social services abuse of children and the Sheer scale of the injustice is far worse than anyone can imagine

Haringey Social Services

Daily Mail  15th November 2008

By Vanessa Allen and Colin Fernandez

 

He reaches out towards an unseen figure behind the camera, and the start of a smile lifts his chubby cheeks, exposing his first baby teeth.


This is one of the unbearably poignant photographs showing for the first time the dreadful and swift transformation Baby P suffered in the last months of his tragically short life.
The picture here was taken when he was 12 months old. It shows a youngster with bright blue eyes and white-blond hair.


That was before his stepfather set about seriously abusing him over the next few months under the nose of social workers

Another picture - taken just a week before his death in August last year - shows the heartbreaking result of his mother's neglect and the incompetence of the professionals charged with protecting him.


The lively golden-haired toddler has been replaced by a helpless, shaven-headed shadow. His empty, red-ringed eyes stare vacantly, his skin pale and his cheeks hollowed.

The child's face is smeared with chocolate, the apparently innocent remainder of a messy lunchtime.
But in Baby P's case, the sinister truth is that his mother had used it to hide the bruising from the beatings meted out by his stepfather.


And he has lost so much weight that - at 17-months-old - he looks younger and more like a baby than he did at a year.
 

Baby P a week before his death

Sinister truth: Baby P's face is smeared with chocolate by his mother to hide the bruising from beatings

 

Publishing pictures of Baby P had been banned due to further legal proceedings against the stepfather.
But yesterday, several newspapers including the Daily Mail won a legal battle to show the public the shocking pictures.


While many will find the photographs upsetting it is crucial for the public to see to put a human face on the tragedy as politicians and officials continue to pass the buck over who was to blame for failing to save his life.
The images contrast with the bureaucratic self-righteousness of many of those involved in the Baby P saga.

 

This graphic shows some of the horrific injuries sustained by Baby PYesterday Tory leader David Cameron called for full publication of correspondence in the case and said that Baby P had 'fallen through the cracks in a bureaucratic system'.


He added: 'If letters are sent with both Haringey and children in the same sentence, then that should have been a real wake-up call.'


Gordon Brown gave fresh assurances that a series of inquiries would expose the truth about Baby P.


The Prime Minister said: 'I am determined to do everything in my power to make sure that this does not happen again. Every family needs to know that their children are safe at night.'

Speaking during a trip to the United States, he added: 'I am determined that everything we do, the inquiries we are having in this case, reveal everything that went on.


'But I am absolutely sure that, like me, every parent in the country is outraged and shocked by what has happened and angered about what happened to that infant.'

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Baby P was seen 60 times by social workers, health visitors and doctors in the last eight months of his life, after he was put on Haringey's Child Protection Register.


Despite his obvious weight loss, bruises and other injuries not one of the officials intervened to stop his daily torment.


Baby P's abuse trial heard he was used 'as a punchbag' in the four-bedroom council house in Haringey, North London, which he shared with his 27-year- old mother, her sadistic boyfriend and their lodger.

His body was found in a bloodspattered cot. In in his final days and weeks Baby P suffered more than 50 separate injuries.


At his death his tiny frame weighed only 23lb - the healthy weight for a child five months younger.

Four separate inquiries have been launched into the failure by child protection and health authorities to halt Baby P's suffering.


Judge Stephen Kramer QC has warned his mother and the stepfather, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and their lodger Jason Owen, 36, of Bromley, Kent, to expect 'a significant term in prison'.

 

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By Vanessa Allen and Colin Fernandez

 

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The fact that Baby P was allowed to die despite 60 visits from Haringey Social Services is a national disgrace.By The Causes Team

 

The fact that Baby P was allowed to die despite 60 visits from Haringey Social Services is a national disgrace.

I believe that ALL the social workers involved in the case of Baby P, including Sharon Shoesmith, Maria Ward and Gillie Christou should be sacked - and never allowed to work with vulnerable children again.

I call on Beverley Hughes, the Children's Minister, and Ed Balls, the Education Secretary, to ensure that those responsible are removed from their positions immediately.

I also demand that the doctor and health visitor involved with Baby P, Dr Sabah Al-Zayyat and Paulette Thomas, should also lose their jobs.

I call on the General Medical Council to ensure that they do.
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