But her hands are tied.“Victoria could only eat by pushing her face into the plate like a dog might, except of course, dogs aren’t normally tied up in black bin liners.
It’s now winter.They place food on a plastic plate. So she sleeps in her own excrement in a room without heat or light. Her hands are tied and then she’s tied into it. So Carl makes her go to bed in a bin liner in the bath. Fear and the beatings mean she’s become incontinent. Lisa’s second visit, in October, is just days after Carl starts forcing Victoria to sleep in the bath every night. Lisa doesn’t speak to Victoria, however, or address the fact she’s not receiving education. It’s neat, clean and Victoria’s well presented. In August, Lisa makes her first of two visits to Carl Manning’s flat. She’s just qualified with only 18 months experience. Her assigned social worker is Lisa Arthurworrey. And no health visitor makes a follow up visit after Victoria’s hospital admission.As they’re now living with Carl, they’re considered the problem of his council, Haringey.
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But PC Karen Jones doesn’t visit because she fears catching scabies from the furniture. A Police Constable is assigned to check up on Victoria. Doctors now believe Victoria is being abused but mistakenly think the police and social services are also aware of this. Once, Victoria is so frightened when Marie-Therese arrives, she wets herself.And during her fortnight hospital stay, social services never once ask Victoria what happened.
Other notes record a belt buckle mark on her body. They record the relationship is more like ‘master and servant’ rather than ‘mother and daughter’. Her twirling figure down the wards entrances everyone.īut nurses note a change when Marie-Therese arrives. And nurses take to her as she recuperates and give her a pair of pink wellies to play in. The injuries are horrific.One thing shines through the appalling facial disfigurement the photos record. Marie-Therese explains Victoria tried to get rid of the scabies by holding her head under scalding water. Later that month, she’s admitted to North Middlesex Hospital suffering from scalding to her head and face. It’s accepted that Victoria’s been scratching herself because of scabies and the injuries are self-inflicted. Following a two hour examination the doctor points along Victoria’s thigh:ĭoctor: Do you know what these marks are?’īut the following morning, a senior consultant diagnoses scabies, an infectious disease that causes rashes on the skin. One of them, Avril, becomes so concerned over Victoria’s mounting injuries, she takes her to hospital. She secures work so leaves Victoria with a child minder and her children.
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In early July, Marie-Therese moves them into the Tottenham, North London flat of her new boyfriend, Carl Manning, a bus driver in his late 20s. A non-professional, non- specialist member of the public has noticed abuse and raised the alarm. Esther makes another call to Brent to check on progress and is reassured. So she visits them and is shocked to see how much weight Victoria has lost. Marie-Therese explains Victoria fell on an escalator. She’d seen Victoria soon after her arrival and so later notices a new scar. That June, Esther, a distant relative of Marie-Therese’s, anonymously rings Brent social workers saying she fears Victoria’s being abused. But sometimes applicants present themselves as worse off than they are to secure sympathy and money.This is the first chance to save the life of Victoria. One staff member thinks her dishevelled appearance is akin to a child on an ‘Action Aid poster’. In April 1999 they arrive in Ealing, West London.Victoria speaks no English.Between 26 April and 7 July, Marie-Therese visits social workers 14 times trying to secure housing support. So after five months, Marie-Therese flees with Victoria. Marie-Therese has started abusing Victoria.But the authorities threaten action over Victoria’s non-attendance. Required to send her ‘daughter’ to school, Victoria only attends half the time. There she uses Victoria to fraudulently access child-benefit. Marie-Therese first takes Victoria to Paris, France.