Tara Heigh, a 24-year old mother who killed her 3- year old son Billy, was jailed this week for 10 years. Tara suffocated her son with a pillow and called afterwards the ambulance telling that she put her son in bed and found him collapsed when she went to check on him. Unfortunately the help came to late and the boy died. Only a couple of hours later she tried to pick someone up on the website ‘Girls Date Free’. Tara has some emotional and intellectual problems and had to raise her son by herself. The father of Billy is in prison for assaulting Tara. Social Service was informed about the problems that the family had. Billy was on the local social services ‘at risk’ register for neglect. The motive of the mother to kill her son isn’t really clear. The only reason they gave was that her son was an ‘inconvenience’ to the life of socialising and dating she wanted to lead.
There is no doubt that the mother is quilty and has to be jailed. I have some ‘questions’ of the role of social services and the lack of help she had. Tara was a young mother and it seemed to be that she didn’t get many help of family members, friends or other professional workers. Social Service knew that there were problems with the family. It’s really a shame that nobody helped her. But it’s difficult to judge because I don’t know the whole situation. People stay responsible for their own acts.
I wonder what drove a person to despair that she even killed her own son. There were always be the question if this accident could be prevent…
Source: The Independent, November 4,2008, Mark Hughes (crime correspondent)
(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/woman-killed-son-who-was-an-inconvenience-to-her-social-life-989632.html)
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