14 DAY TRIAL // MP Geoffrey Robinson is demanding that the head of Child Services that failed to stop the death of four-year-old Daniel Pelka step down at once.
As we reported earlier, Pelka was killed by his mother and stepfather with a blow to the head. He was also so malnourished that he was described as a “concentration camp victim.” His body weight was that of a toddler.
The torture and anguish that the child went through could have been prevented, the MP for Coventry North West says.
“He takes with him the indelible stain of Daniel's cruel death, which his department had failed to prevent,” he said of Colin Green, Child Services director in Coventry.
Green had already announced his departure in September after his department was dubbed the least successful in preventing abuse in the UK.
Robinson also slams the school that Pelka attended, Daily Mail reports. The child had bruising all over his body and about 30 injuries.
“Where were these individuals when Daniel needed them most? Bureaucracy triumphed over common sense, care, and compassion.
“How can the staff at the school attended by Daniel have failed to have recognised patterns of behaviour that should have set alarm bells ringing, not only within the school but within the corridors of power within the Council House?” Robinson asks.
Pelka would be sent to school without food and he would look through garbage bins and other students' lunchboxes in order to obtain some form of nourishment.
The parents told the school that they should stop him from doing so because he suffered from a disease that forbade him from eating that type of food.
“How could anyone believe it to be normal for a child to climb on the top of furniture to get to food; to scavenge around bins to access waste; and to steal food from the lunch-boxes?
“What human being, with the slightest understanding of children, would not have been concerned enough to take action to set alarm bells ringing?” Robinson notes.