Social Services Failed To Protect A Teenager

Essex Safeguarding Children's Board conducted a review and criticized the social services severely for failing to protect a teenager - Agnes from years of family abuse, violence and torture. She was subjected to physical and sexual abuse by her mother and relatives.

Agnes' real identity cannot be revealed due to legal reasons but it has been discovered that she was physically and sexually abused by her mother, her mother's partners and her step grand father throughout her childhood and teenage years.

It is strange to note that although the social services were given at least 200 warnings by Agnes' neighbors and older siblings, but still no action was taken. Agnes was the youngest child in her family. All the other siblings were also abused in some form or the other. Agnes was put into care in her mid teens in 2006 when she told the police about her abuse. Her family moved to this area in 1990 but the social services of other parts of the country had records of their actions from before. Still the social services did not monitor this family and Agnes suffered immensely. The social services thought that because several of Agnes' siblings were also put in special care and they felt that because of this her mother would be more careful of raising Agnes.

This is quite a sad story that for so long a kid suffered and the social services couldn't do much for her. The social services department was ranked as inadequate by Ofsted.

Update on Georgia Davis

Georgia’s mom feels very guilty about her daughter’s weight problem. She herself had gone through diets & now she weighs quarter-ton.

According to her mom, Georgia has problem in walking & she gets out of breath. She doesn’t want to face her problem. She prefers eating junk food. It’s true that her mom gave her condensed milk when she didn’t take regular milk as an infant; she also fed her potatoes rather than baby food.

Her mom also said that people would blame her but one can’t watch kids 24 hours a day.

I believe Georgia has just become a lousy news for all of us. Some people must be laughing at her while reading about her problem.

How much Georgia eats a day:

BREAKFAST:

Two bowls of cornflakes, 2 slices of toast, 2 glasses of coke

LUNCH:

Fish & chips (with 2 portions of fish), 4 slices of bread and butter, 2 glasses of coke

EVENING MENU:

Spaghetti bolognese with cheese, 1 packet of biscuits

SNACKS:

2 Snickers

Well she surely sounds genuinely stressed out or something & this is a serious problem. If she continues to eat how she eats, this won’t change things at all. In fact, it will get from bad to worse. We can understand that there ought to be a lot on her & that’s why she eats more in panic, but after going through this list, there is not much hope.

Britain’s fattest teenager

Georgia is Britain’s fattest teenager. She’s 17 year old & the more she thinks about her fatness, the more she eats. She also faces an early death, if she doesn’t take some step to loose weight. This must be really depressing for her. People stare at her badly when she goes out of the house, but she is used to it.

While she was in America, she used to play games & she even consulted behavioural coaches, food psychologists and fitness trainers and they encouraged to walk 10,000 steps every day & she lost weight at that time. But at home, she doesn’t have those facilities.

She said at the camp she had been in a controlled environment where she consumed 1,500 calories a day. However, at home she felt isolated as neither her family nor her friends were sticking to a healthy eating plan.

'This is my problem and I know I have to solve it again,' she said

'But I'm only human and I'd be lying if I said I didn't need support.'

Of course she needs moral support & I just hope she loose weight again.

See I don’t have anything against fat people as such & I think it’s really rude on the part of people to target fat, thin, short, dark people. Someone extremely fat had been mean to me a year ago & I said a couple of nasty things regarding fat people. I think it’s the evil nature of the person that makes us say nasty thing about him/her. On top of it, I’ve also noticed fat people calling others fat. I think they are in a position to understand how a person might feel but everyone makes fun of fat people.

I have never been this fat but I did put on some weight during my teenage years & it was a nightmare how everyone used to give me headaches. I wasn’t even fat, but no one spared me the torture. Family & friends…everyone begged me to loose weight & made fun of me on every occasion. Most of the people who made fun of me at that time have become very fat now :P I lost that weight in 8 years, but even today when I meet people, they tell me that I’m too skinny (which I am not) & they can’t stand it. And some of my school pals who met me later on just couldn’t stand it either. They were happy when I was healthy & have turned green when I was not that healthy anymore. And my 1^st love also said to me that I wasn’t smart enough for him. I haven’t forgotten anything & I wasn’t even fat, to begin with. I believe these fat people must go through hell. And when you’re young, it’s all the more tough on you.