One of the trio behind bars over the death of Baby P won an appeal yesterday against an order that he must serve an indefinite prison sentence.
Three judges in the Court of Appeal in London ruled that Jason Owen (37), who was convicted of causing or allowing the death of 17 month old Peter [...]
A lodger at Baby P’s home who was jailed over his death will launch a bid to appeal against his sentence later.
Jason Owen, 37, of Bromley, Kent, was given an indeterminate sentence with a minimum term of three years for causing or allowing the death of the child.
Baby P’s mother Tracey Connelly, 28, and [...]
Bulgarian police have arrested a couple suspected of trafficking pregnant women into Greece, where they gave birth and sold their babies for adoption.
About 10 women were involved and each child was sold for up to $12,000 (£7,200), police said in a statement.
The mothers were mostly Roma women who received about two-thirds of the payment, [...]
Is this political correctness gone mad. In England the Minister for Children has had to intervene with OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) after they accused two police officers of breaking the law by caring for each other’s children.
The organization said that the arrangement contravened the Childcare Act because it lasted for longer than [...]
The world famous Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children had to wait 157 years to experience its first birth!
The historical event happened when mum Nicola Tyler was comforting heryou’re your old daughter Kelly in the hospital’s Elephant ward, where the youngster was being treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Even though the hospital is world [...]
Researchers at Edinburgh University have found that there has been a significant rise in the number of premature births but there has also been a dramatic decrease in neonatal deaths. From 1980 to 2005 the rate of decrease has been more than 50%.
Currently 63 births out of every 1,000 are premature or roughly [...]
WHEN the head of family planning in Shanghai said young couples should have more babies because the city was growing old, it sounded like a statement of the obvious.
Yet within days there was a storm of comment on the internet and in state media as people asked whether this meant the [...]
A 25-year-old Bristol man has appeared at Bristol Crown Court accused of murdering a four-month-old baby.
Andrew Rawlings, from Speedwell, appeared at Bristol Crown Court for a preliminary hearing. He is accused of killing the unnamed child last month.
North Avon Magistrates’ Court heard the child was taken to hospital on July 28, but later died [...]
Britain is in the mist of a baby boom, the largest in almost half a century.
Recent figures show that women were having more children than any time since the mid 1970’s. Statistics show that last year there was an increse in the british population. It now stands at a record 61.4 million with 400,000 [...]
Just one blistering sunburn in childhood more than doubles a person’s chances of developing melanoma, a skin cancer, later in life. According to one U.S. study, 54 percent of children become sunburned or tanned in their second summer, compared with 22 percent in their first summer.
“Children should not be getting sunburned at any age, [...]