Hakeem Hussain: Mum guilty of manslaughter over fatal asthma attack

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  1. Man having an asthma attack can be pretty scary as an adult when you have your meds and know what to do.
    Can’t imagine what the poor kid was feeling. Must have been terrified.

  2. >The court heard Heath had even repurposed one of the seven-year-old’s inhalers as a makeshift crack pipe.

    Jesus. Sounds like there were many, many opportunities to get the boy into proper care and they just…fucked around and wasted time, ignoring the warning signs they could clearly see.

    Someone probably should have gotten the mother some help, too.

  3. Imagine the terror. Damn.

    Expected some nutjob overly strict Asian parent ignoring the asthma or taking the inhaler as a punishment, not a crack addict turning the kid’s inhaler into a crack pipe.

    Interesting to see social workers were already involved. It seems like for most kids, social services and the whole system of protecting children from abuse (including teachers) are useless, often even non-existent, at least from anyone I know who was abused.

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