Freeing vile mother is an insult to Baby P’s memory

I am baffled, angered and saddened this week by two events surrounding the appalling death of little Baby P back in 2007.

First of all his mother who, along with her disgusting boyfriend, tortured and snuffed out the life of the 14-month-old child, has been released from jail. Secondly the social worker boss who failed to protect him has been awarded a massive pay out after losing her job.

We really are through the looking glass here.

Baby P’s excuse for a mother, Tracey Connelly, was given parole and freed on Friday. She was jailed in 2009 for “causing or allowing” her son’s death, along with her vile partner Steven Barker.

We should not forget that baby Peter had more than 50 injuries inflicted upon his tiny body. His back was broken, snapped like a twig by his twisted torturers, and he had eight broken ribs. He was covered in bruises, cuts and abrasions, including a wound to his head that looked like a dog bite.

One of his front teeth had been knocked out and the poor child had swallowed it. His fingernails also appeared to have been ripped out. The list is endless and utterly heartbreaking.

This agony went on for eight months and during that time social workers visited an astonishing 60 times but failed to take any action.

Tracey Connelly covered the wounds on her son’s face by smearing chocolate on them and that appeared to satisfy the authorities. How they failed to notice the pain in that child’s eyes or see through the lies being told by adults in the house is beyond belief. I still cannot understand why no one had the common sense or humanity to save this little boy.

Despite the signs being there for all to see, a culture of box ticking and meeting targets meant this poor child was doomed.

I simply cannot begin to imagine what his short life was like and how much he suffered. It’s like something out of the sickest horror film.

His moronic mother admitted her part in his death and also did nothing to protect her son from her evil boyfriend Barker, who is still in jail over Baby P’s death as well as the rape of a two-year-old girl. Mind you, in the currently climate he may well be set free imminently and given a free holiday in the Maldives!

I am also beyond gobsmacked that the social work chief in charge of the department that shamefully didn’t protect Baby P was given a huge pay out after winning her claim for unfair dismissal.

I’m sure you’ll remember that at the time of Baby P’s death Sharon Shoesmith arrogantly asserted that her department had just received a good Ofsted report instead of doing the decent thing and expressing her sorrow at the tragedy and promising to move heaven and earth to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.

She appeared to believe her department had done nothing wrong and that statistics and figures were of far more importance than actual human beings.

Those sort of people should never be employed as social workers. We need professionals with empathy, but also with a no nonsense and sensible approach to problems. The kind of people who want to help others but are not taken in by the Tracey Connellys of this world.

Shoesmith was sacked, but actually she should have done the decent thing and resigned.

Instead she will have a very merry Christmas thanks to that massive pay out. And as for Tracey Connelly she will receive a new identity (paid for by you and me) and is free to get on with her life.

Meanwhile poor little Baby P still lies alone in a cold grave.