[Margaret Pilkington]

I wonder what the world is coming to.
In Sheffield a couple allow their children to starve, and they keep them in a room that is filled with their own excrement.....the eldest child goes to school looking malnourished and unkempt...Social services are contacted but still this family 'fall through the net'.
Will there be heads rolling in the Sheffield Social Services Department..... somehow I doubt it.

In Essex the Social services go to the other extreme, in that they remove two children from their parents and put them up for adoption because the parents are classed as 'slow'. The parents have just received their yearly photograph of these children and it has broken their hearts. These children were loved and well cared for..... the home was clean and they were well fed.

Another report in the newspaper today concerns the systematic torture and killing of a 20 year old girl by her in laws and their family. This girl is reported to have had 60 injuries when found.....and was so badly nourished that the police thought it was the body of a juvenile boy.

What has happened to the feelings of care and compassion?
How could these people have done these things...... have they no feelings of right and wrong?? I am greatly saddened by reports like these.