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This Should Not of Happened to Peter Connelly
This should not of happened to Peter Connelly – By Jonathan Pinder
Born 1st March, 2006, Peter Connelly “Baby P” was only three months old when his natural father walked out after the mother; Tracey Connelly began an affair with Steven Barker, a racist thug obsessed with Nazi memorabilia and pornography. This was the start of the end for such a beautiful little innocent boy!
In the world we live in today this should NEVER have happened! So many things should never have slipped through the net and gone un-noticed. The professionals where the only people that could of saved this poor little boy’s life, they had the words! They had the means! And they had the power to stop this. But instead Fifteen month-old 'Baby P' was left to die at the hands of his mother and stepfather because of catastrophic blunders by doctors, police and the same Haringey Borough Council who so disastrously failed to help nine year-old Victoria Climbié ten years earlier. Rather than resign in shame, doctors and social workers have fallen over each other to blame others and keep their jobs.
And so it begins!
In November 2006, Tracey Connelly’s new boyfriend, Steven Barker, moved in with her and shortly after the new lover moved into the family home in Finsbury Park, north London, Peter was seen with bruises and scratches on his skin on a visit to his GP Dr Jerome Ikwueke. This is when the excuses and lies began; Tracey Connelly’s excuse was that the boy's skin 'bruised easily.’ But no sooner had Peter visited the Doctors, Peter was taken to Whittington hospital with a head injury, bruising to the bridge of the nose, sternum, right shoulder and buttocks and when Tracey was asked about finger-marks on Peters body, the mother said they were from 'holding him and throwing him up in the air.'(Excuse and lie number 2) She also claimed that Peter, now only 9 months old, liked 'rough and tumble play’ (Excuse and lie number 3) when she was under police questioning on suspicion of assault. This is

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