General Chat

Liz

That was Australian Social Services but our NZ ones are fraught with problems. We have had some absolutely horrific things happen to little kids. One little girl was put in the spin drier by teenagers in the family and they also hung her on the rotary clothes line. Needless to say she did not survive the treatment meted out to her. Another gorgeous little gilr was used as a bowling ball by her step father and with other treatment handed out she was left to lie in her own excrement etc whilst the parents went out on a binge. They both got to do time in prison.

Sometimes the authorities are just not aware of what is going on and when they step in they are damned for interfering and if they miss something they are also damned for not doing anything. It is very Catch 22.

Norma

There are some evil people about, who should be sterilised without anaesthetic!

Breaks my heart to think of children suffering, why on earth was that little lad left with his mother if she kept putting him outside etc, your Social Services sound as 'good' as ours, Norma!

LIzx

Hi Liz

I read this in the paper 9th December

Rachel Pfitzner loathed her toddler son so much she sometimes locked the sobbing, hungry boy outside, where Neighbours heard him repeatedly crying out "Mummy, mummy, I am sorry."

Her callous mistreatment of Dean Shillingsworth culminated in October 2007, when she murdered the two-year-old, stuffed his little body in a suitcase, wheeled it in a pram to a Sydney pond and tossed it into the water.

On Wednesday in the NSW Supreme Court, Pfitzner nodded as Justice Robert Allan Hulme jailed her for at least 19 years and two months.

Earlier, she'd wiped away tears as he outlined the tragedy.

"Dean was entitled to love, protection and nurture but instead she took away his very life," the judge said.

The 27-year-old had pleaded guilty to murdering her son at Rosemeadow, in Sydney's southwest, before dumping his body in the pond at nearby Ambarvale.

The toddler died of asphyxiation in a manner which has not been identified.

Justice Hulme concluded Pfitzner had come to loathe Dean because he reminded her of his father, Paul Shillingsworth jnr, "towards whom she held ambivalent feelings".

"The killing was not planned, but the judge concluded she gave in to her anger and deliberately set about causing Dean really serious bodily harm on October 11, 2007.

"Dumping the child's body in the duck pond was a further sign of loathing for him," he said.

The judge set a maximum term of 25 years and six months.

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I had trouble reading past the first few lines as it made me cry.

Norma

Bring the IRA out of retirement with the job of seeing to this bastard ,slowly and painfully,or better still .give him to the women prisoners in Belfast,and hear the git scream.Fred.

Did he get Life? I hope he is put in with the other prisoners who know better how to punish a person like this than the judges do. But he will probably get off with being of unsound mind.

Please not another cock up by Social Services??.I haven't heard about this Liz

How could anyone be so cruel, poor little Millie. A Christmas Angel now safely at peace.


Man charged with NI toddler murder
Last Updated: Monday, 14 December 2009,

A 30-year-old man has been charged with murdering Northern Ireland toddler Millie Martin.

The 15-month-old girl died in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital on Friday after she was attacked and badly beaten at a house in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, the previous day.

The man will appear at Omagh Magistrates' Court on Tuesday morning charged with the murder, police said.

Millie was taken with her mother Rachel to the Erne Hospital, Enniskillen, on Thursday before her transfer to the Royal.
There she was kept on a life support machine until members of her family arrived to say goodbye.
Her relatives have said they were suffering unbearable grief and were numb with pain.
Senior social workers within the Western Health Trust have been helping police with their inquiries.