Disturbed boy, 11, 'left free to rape' COURT.A JUDGE slammed social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales yesterday for ignoring pleas to take an 11-year-old into care just days before he raped a nineyear-old disabled boy. The attack came 13 days after a child psychiatrist child psychiatrist Psychiatry A psychiatrist specialized in mental, emotional, or behavior disorders of children and adolescents; CPs are qualified to prescribe medications wrote the second of two letters urging action. Both were ignored and the troubled youngster, now 12, was free to rape. Judge Beatrice Bolton said if Sunderland social services heeded Dr Stephen Westgarth's advice it may have been avoided. Giving the boy four-anda-half years' detention at Newcastle crown court, he said: "If you had been moved from home you would not have done this." Sunderland Local Safeguarding Children Board said a review is under way. |
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