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Ak tad bērnu izņēma "tikai 1. iemesla pēc"?
28.10.15 13:29
No 2013.g. sprieduma

6. At 1 a.m. on the 4th September 2009 the police responded to a report to discover mother intoxicated and walking barefoot with her daughter in a buggy in the middle of a road in the London Borough of Merton. Mother was arrested and CB was placed in the care of MZ. Mother was subsequently cautioned for the offence of being drunk in charge of a child under the age of seven.

7. The local authority undertook an assessment which was not completed until 18 January 2010. The author expressed the opinion that mother's behaviour was out of character, that CB was usually well cared for and loved by her mother and sister and that on the basis the incident was a mistake, CB would be well cared for in the future.

8. In February 2010 there was an anonymous referral to the local authority's children's services department reporting that CB was "up all hours, running and screaming around the flat at 2 a.m. nearly every night". The landlord called the police to the family home on 5 March 2010. The police found CB at home without an adult at the age of only 21 months. The police officer's description of the neglect of CB is important and I shall repeat it below. CB was immediately taken into police protection.

"I then heard a whimpering sound from the door directly in from of me. Once I opened the door I saw a room. In the left hand corner of the room was a wardrobe and there were toys all over the floor. In the right hand corner of the room against the window was a double bed that looked very soiled. On the wall beside the bed was a large area of damp in the wall and the wallpaper was coming away. There was a very strong and overpowering smell of urine and faeces in the room. I saw the child curled in an almost foetal position on the bed lying on a pillow. She sat up when we came into the room and she was holding an empty pink bottle. I went towards the child. She stood up and came towards me. I saw that her clothes were wet and that she was wearing a nappy that had fallen off between her legs. Once in a different room I could see the child's clothes were wet and she was shivering. The strong smell was coming from her and it was clear that she had not been changed or cleaned all day. I removed the child's nappy to find dried and fresh faeces. The nappy was so swollen with urine that the child was unable to walk properly. There was also dried faeces on the child's body and her skin was soaked in urine that had leaked from her nappy and gone through her clothes."

9. On examination at hospital CB was found to have contact dermatitis related to her soaking condition. From police protection she was placed with local authority foster carers with the consent of mother under section 20 of the 1989 Act. CB remained accommodated until care proceedings were issued because, despite mother's repeatedly expressed intentions, her new housing did not materialise and her existing home was in a very poor state: effectively unfit for a child.

10. In early December mother successfully completed a 'strengthening families' parenting course. However, on 26 December 2010 she was again detained by the police on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly.

Rezumējot - bērns tiek atrasts viens, acīmredzami nekoptās, dzīvošanai nepiemērotās telpās (+ despite mother's repeatedly expressed intentions, her new housing did not materialise), smirdošs pēc sūdiem un urīna (autiņi nebija mainīti visu dienu), kā arī bērna mātei gan pirms (sk. 6.punktu), gan pēc (sk. 10. punktu) konstatējamas acīmredzamas nopietnas problēmas ar alkoholu (kopā mazu bērnu, vazāties apkārt galīgā pālī vien ir ko vērts).