{"id":714,"date":"2014-11-24T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T10:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2014-11-24T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T10:20:51","slug":"mother-who-escaped-somalia-with-help-of-british-embassy-admits-to-neglect-and-ultimate-death-of-baby-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/mother-who-escaped-somalia-with-help-of-british-embassy-admits-to-neglect-and-ultimate-death-of-baby-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother who escaped Somalia with help of British embassy admits to neglect and ultimate death of baby W."},"content":{"rendered":"
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A four and a half month-old baby looked \u201clike something from Auschwitz\u201d when she was found dead at her home by paramedics, a High Court judge has been told. The little girl was \u201cextremely malnourished\u201d, \u201cvery underweight\u201d and \u201cprofoundly dehydrated\u201d when discovered in October 2013, Mr Justice Hayden heard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She had been pronounced dead about two hours after being found, but paramedics had thought that she was dead when they arrived. One experienced paramedic called to the scene had never seen a baby in such a condition, said the judge.<\/p>\n

Baby W’s mother had been married in her mid-teens after being taken from the UK to Somalia, said the judge. She had returned to the UK about two years ago after becoming pregnant with baby W.<\/p>\n

The judge said British embassy officials had helped her \u201cescape\u201d from Somalia. He said the mother, now thought to be in her late teens, had admitted permitting baby W’s death and neglect, and was due to be sentenced soon. But he said the mother appeared to have suffered a \u201cprofound psychological breakdown\u201d before her daughter’s death.<\/p>\n

And he said a consultant paediatrician who produced a report in the case had been \u201chighly critical\u201d of some agencies involved.<\/p>\n

Dr Peter Ehrhardt said some agencies ought to have played a \u201cmore active role\u201d in supporting the mother. In particular, he said there ought to have been greater surveillance by the Government’s Forced Marriage Unit – which is run jointly by the Foreign Office and Home Office and provides support and advice to victims of forced marriage.<\/p>\n

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A four and a half month-old baby looked \u201clike something from Auschwitz\u201d when she was found dead at her home by paramedics, a High Court judge has been told. The little girl was \u201cextremely malnourished\u201d, \u201cvery underweight\u201d and \u201cprofoundly dehydrated\u201d when discovered in October 2013, Mr Justice Hayden heard. She had been pronounced dead about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[184,186,185,7,4,183],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baby-w","tag-british-embassy","tag-escape","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-somalia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}