21 and 29 years respectively for this is not long enough.
Agree it probably isn't.
But does length of sentence go any way to preventing such horrors occurring again.??
It's clear that the people doing these terrible crimes are already not rational, they're in the grip of some kind of alternate reality, even if not technically 'mad' or mentally ill.
Anyone behaving like this is obv not right in the head, deluded in some way.
And others need to be protected from them.
But is the thought of length of possible sentence
really going to stop them?
Something, or rather someone, needed to be in place to safeguard this poor child.
Ideally family , and community, but tragically there was not enough help from that quarter, why there wasn't we don't really know .
And of course abusers can be very good at covring up their actions.
Social services were already struggling, and then along came the pandemic, which meant victims of horrific abuse like this were further isolated.
There will no doubt be some kind of enquiry to try to grasp what signs were missed.
But social services like all the other caring services are suffering poor funding, and low morale, worsened by the pandemic.
That needs to be recognised, acknowledged, and acted upon.
21 and 29 years respectively for this is not long enough. I grew up with violence at home and this story is heartbreaking. How is this still happening in 2021? Why are lessons never learnt?
Sorry you had to endure that, I know the effects never fully go away, but with help and some luck and persistence, somehow they are survived , and 'assimilated' ( if that's the right word)
Of course it's terrible, it doesn't need saying, but afaik rates of child abuse have fallen over the decades.
In part because of greater awareness.
There was a thread in 'the other place' about the almost 'routine' and even 'unremarkable' abuses experienced in peoples childhoods last century.
Of course in it's not all gone away , but it does get spoken about, and exposed far more nowadays, than it used to.
It's no longer regarded as no one else's business, if someone is being abusive to those in their 'care'. Or to those more vulnerable
Yes this case got missed, or was well hidden, we don't know all the facts
What we do need to remember though is the amount of harm that
is prevented by social services, and others.
Of course that doesn't make the headlines in the way horrific cases such as this.
