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AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
Tue May 31, 2016, 10:30 PM May 2016

Liam Fee's mother and her civil partner convicted of his murder

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/31/liam-fee-mother-rachel-trelfa-and-partner-convicted-of-murder

It was the courage of two little boys in detailing the horrific abuse they had suffered that proved key in convicting the mother and civil partner of a two-year-old boy with his murder.

Liam Fee’s mother, Rachel Trelfa (or Fee), 31, and her civil partner, Nyomi Fee, 29, had denied killing the toddler and falsely accused another child in their care of causing the death.

Liam was found dead at his home near Glenrothes in Fife on 22 March 2014, having suffered a ruptured heart as a result of severe blunt force trauma.

The couple were convicted of all eight charges they faced – in addition to the murder charge, they were found guilty of assaulting Liam over a period of more than two years prior to his death. The jury also convicted them of four charges detailing a string of abuses against two other boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons.


May they never see the light of day again.
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Liam Fee's mother and her civil partner convicted of his murder (Original Post) AngryAmish May 2016 OP
2 years and no home visits to see if adoption was the right choice for these two? yeoman6987 May 2016 #1
What does it have to do with adoption? LisaL May 2016 #2
Oops sorry. Too upset over the abuse the child lived by. yeoman6987 May 2016 #3
Who does these things to children malaise May 2016 #4
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. 2 years and no home visits to see if adoption was the right choice for these two?
Tue May 31, 2016, 10:39 PM
May 2016

The amount of abuse should have been caught with in 2 years. This is heartbreaking and totally unnecessary.

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