Dad googled ‘how to make a baby disabled’ in Reading home
A Reading father reportedly looked up “how to make a child disabled” online in an effort to harm his newborn’s brain
in order to get more government money, according to a family court.
The infant had a shin fracture when it was brought to the Royal Berkshire Hospital last year, the court heard.
“My husband killed my newborn baby, please help me, please help me,” the infant’s mother said to a 999 call
operator when she called the police the night of the event.
The mother claimed that the father “vigorously shook” the infant when the police came, causing it to stop breathing
and “go blue and floppy.”
Court documents reveal the mother states: “The father took the baby from her when she was breastfeeding him,
saying he did not deserve the milk. He said to the mother that if she came over to him to get the baby, he would
throw the baby to the wall or on the floor.
“He was shaking the baby back and forth at this time and then held out the baby in line with his arms, then above his
head shaking him aggressively. The baby was crying but then he stopped crying and turned blue.”
Speaking to police at the family home, the mother reported the father had threatened to throw the baby, stating: “I
throw you, I kill you baby, I kill the baby”.
The father, who was arrested and bailed, denied having harmed the child, suggesting his wife was ‘stressed or
depressed’.
He later gave a statement where he alleged the mother ‘bullies him’, ‘calls him names’ and physically chastised their
children.
Following strategy meetings between the police, social services and the paediatrician from the hospital, the court was
told the mother had made a number of allegations against the father, including that he would wake up [the baby]
when he was asleep and say things like ‘f*** you little kid, stop crying little devil’.
“The mother had seen the father google how to make a child disabled so she thinks [the father] is doing these things
to [the baby] to give him brain damage to get more money from the government. He has also been seen to make [the
baby] cry deliberately”, court documents state.
She further alleged the father had hidden her and the children’s passports to prevent her from returning to their
country of origin, which cannot be named to protect the family’s anonymity.
The father denied all of the mother’s allegations ‘in the strongest possible terms’, he said in a document filed with the
court.
But after the baby’s shin fracture was discovered, the mother herself was added to the pool of possible perpetrators
and she was arrested and bailed over the injuries, which she denied causing.
At the hearing on Monday, Dr Patrick Cartlidge confirmed he had concluded the fracture caused to the baby was
‘most likely caused non-accidentally’.
He acknowledged that shaking could be a contributing factor, but also mentioned that changing a baby’s nappy “in a
frustrated manner” by an adult is another frequent reason for these fractures.
In order to ascertain if the “threshold criteria” are satisfied, the court was holding a fact-finding hearing. Before a
court can consider issuing a care order or a supervision order, certain facts must be established during the care
procedures. These are known as the threshold criteria.
According to what was heard, the local government had put protective measures in place for the kids because it was
worried that their parents’ care might cause them to “suffer significant harm.”
According to the council’s court filings, “[the baby] was probably subjected to severe physical harm (i.e., a
concussion) if the mother’s account is accurate.”
“If the mother’s account is untrue, the children have likely suffered emotional harm (or were at risk of the same) by
virtue of false allegations having been made.”
The mother is against the children being placed in foster care, which is what the court-appointed guardian was
arguing on their behalf.
The case continues.
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