Father is accused of googling ‘how to make a child disabled’ in bid to give his newborn son brain damage and claim more benefits in family court case
A family court has heard claims a man was investigating ‘how to make a child disabled’ in a bid to give his newborn
baby brain damage to collect more money from the government.
The case occurred on the first day of a long-term transparency initiative that has made it possible for reporters to
cover every family court for the first time.
Following the horrifying murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif in Woking by her father and stepmother, there is now
fresh concern about how family courts handle cases involving claims of child abuse.
During the first week of the transparency experiment, attorneys argued against the publication of this report in a
Reading family court case.
On Monday, the court heard the baby was admitted to the Royal Berkshire Hospital last year and was found to have a
fracture in its shin.
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.”
According to court records, the mother claimed that the father had taken the child away from her while she was
nursing him, claiming he was unworthy of the milk. He threatened to toss the infant to the wall or the ground if the
mother approached him to retrieve it.
At this point, he was shaking the infant back and forth before holding him out in front of his arms and shaking him
violently above his head. The infant was wailing, but suddenly stopped and became pale.
“I throw you, I kill you baby, I kill the baby,” the mother told police at the family home, confirming the father’s threat
to toss the child.
Arrested and released on bond, the father denied harming the child, claiming his wife was’stressed or depressed’.
The mother ‘bullies him’, ‘calls him names’, and physically reprimands his children, he claimed in a later statement.
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 believes the father is doing these things to cause brain damage in order to receive more money from the
government since she saw him search for ways to handicap a child on Google. “He has also been observed
purposefully causing [the baby] to cry,” according to court filings.
In order to keep her from going back to their country of origin—which cannot be identified to preserve the privacy of
the family—she further claimed that the father had concealed her and the children’s passports.
He said shaking was a possible cause, but added that an adult changing a baby’s nappy ‘in a frustrated manner’ was
also a common cause of such fractures.
The court was conducting a fact-finding hearing to determine whether the ‘threshold criteria’ are met. The threshold
criteria are facts that must be proved during care proceedings before a court can consider making either a care order
or a supervision order.
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 court records the council presented, “[the baby] was likely caused significant physical harm (i.e.,
concussion) if the mother’s account is true.”
“The children have probably experienced emotional harm (or were at risk of experiencing it) as a result of false
accusations being made if the mother’s account is false.”
The mother is opposed to the court-appointed guardian’s argument that the children should be placed in foster care.
The case continues.
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