SOCIAL SERVICES FACE HARD QUESTIONS OVER MISSED RED FLAGS IN BOY’S STARVATION DEATH

The fate of a five-year-old boy starved to death by his mother, who had a history of drug abuse, could have been different had social workers noticed he was “just skin and bones”, a Hong Kong judge lamented in her… Just three months before the boy died in September 2022, a worker from the Social Welfare Department handling the case visited the 37-year-old mother at home and reported observing “no visible injuries” on the boy’s…

News - South China Morning Post reports that the fate of a five-year-old boy starved to death by his mother, who had a history of drug abuse, could have been different had social workers noticed he was “just skin and bones”, a Hong Kong judge lamented in her…

The report adds: Just three months before the boy died in September 2022, a worker from the Social Welfare Department handling the case visited the 37-year-old mother at home and reported observing “no visible injuries” on the boy’s…

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