Mick Harper
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In: London
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| [Possibly no precedent whatsoever.] |
It is a feature of these various carer/killer cases where a miscarriage of justice is suspected, that no discernible motive is present. In serial abuse of a single child by parents or a Shipman type 'serial care in the community' phenomenon, motive seem reasonably easy to apportion, however incomprehensible that motive seems to be to the rest of us.
But the various miscarriages of justice require new categories to be formulated -- e.g. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome -- and novel motives -- e.g. Munchausen Disease by proxy -- to be created. (Which by the way, I leant from AI, is now Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another).
So incomprehensible they must be mad. The mums and the nurses might be driven mad by their treatment but they seem remarkably normal apart from that. Until guilt is established whereupon they are put in prison not a secure psychiatric facility. Wickedness always caps insanity.
PS The 'Tyranny of Large Numbers' has been superseded by 'Careful Ignoral' in the Nottingham scandal. There were 21,500 cases that required investigation but the shell-shocked media have taken to referring to this as 'hundreds'.
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