Dad googled ‘how to make a baby disabled’ in Reading home

Dad googled ‘how to make a baby disabled’ in Reading home

A Reading father was googling ‘how to make a child disabled’ in a bid to give his newborn son brain damage to get

more money from the government, a family court heard.

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.”

According to the mother’s statement in court documents, “The father took the baby away from her while she was

nursing him, claiming he didn’t deserve the milk.” He warned the mother that if she approached him to retrieve the

child, he would toss it to the ground or the wall.

At this point, he was holding the infant in line with his arms and shaking him violently above his head after shaking

him back and forth. The baby started to cry, but then he stopped and became pale.

“I throw you, I kill you baby, I kill the baby,” the mother told police when she spoke to them at the family home,

threatening to throw the child.

After strategy meetings between the police, social services, and the hospital paediatrician, he later made a statement

in which he claimed the mother “bullies him,” “calls him names,” and physically reprimanded their children. The

court was informed that the mother had made several accusations against the father, including that he would wake

up [the baby] while 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 give him brain

damage to get more money from the government. He has also been seen to make [the baby] cry deliberately,”

according to court documents.

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 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.

It heard the local authority had instigated protective measures in relation to the children as it was concerned they

would ‘suffer significant harm’ as a result of the care their parents were giving to them.

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.”

“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 opposed to the court-appointed guardian’s argument that the children should be placed in foster care.

The matter is still pending.

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