Monday, 23 November 2015

Mother Suffocates 3 Disabled Children To Death

Tania Clarence, 42 admitted the manslaughter by diminished responsibility of Olivia, four, and three-year-olds Ben and Max at their home in New Malden, southwest London, over the Easter holidays last year.

The children’s dad, investment banker Gary Clarence, 43, was abroad on business in his native South Africa with the couple’s eldest daughter at the time of the killings.

The children suffered from the rare life-limiting genetic condition spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which left them with little or no control of their movement.

Clarence was sentenced to a hospital order last November and will not be released until she has recovered from her mental illness.

The depressed mother who suffocated her three young disabled children was being seen by sixty different professionals, it has emerged.

The involvement of so many people with Tania Clarence and her family was an "insurmountable problem", a serious case review has found.

The 70-page inquiry report said the death's of the youngsters "could not have been predicted nor prevented" but added "important lessons" should be learned from the tragedy.

The number of practitioners involved in the case was among a series of failings highlighted by the review, commissioned by the Kingston Local Safeguarding Children Board (KLSC).

The report said there was a "lack of consensus" among professionals over the right care for the children.


Mirror UK
Sky News

2 comments:

  1. The Welfare in D Area. Has Its Faults. They Should Have Observed 4 Along time That D Woman Cannot Manage with Her three Disabled Children. & They should have been taken to A Home.

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