Father is accused of googling ‘tips on how to make a toddler disabled’ in bid to provide his new child son mind injury and declare extra advantages in household courtroom case
A family court has heard allegations a father was googling ‘how to make a child disabled’ in a bid to give his newborn son brain damage to get more money from the government.
The case came during the first day of an extended transparency project which has allowed journalists to report on every family court for the first time.
It comes amid renewed concern about the way family courts are dealing with cases where there are allegations of child abuse, following the horrific murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif in Woking by her father and step-mother.
In a case at Reading family court, during the first week of the transparency project, lawyers argued against this report being published.
On Monday, the court heard the baby was admitted to the Royal Berkshire Hospital last year and was found to have a fracture in its shin.
The baby’s mother had called the police on the night of the incident, telling a 999 call handler: ‘My husband kill my new born baby please help me please help me’.
When officers arrived, the mother alleged the father ‘vigorously shook’ the baby and said the child stopped breathing, ‘went blue and floppy’.
Court documents reveal the mother stated: ‘The father took the baby from her when she was breastfeeding him, saying he did not deserve the milk. He said to the mother that if she came over to him to get the baby, he would throw the baby to the wall or on the floor.
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A family court has heard allegations a father was googling ‘how to make a child disabled’ in a bid to give his newborn son brain damage to get more money from the government (stock image)
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It comes amid renewed concern about the way family courts are dealing with cases where there are allegations of child abuse, following the horrific murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif (above) in Woking by her father and step-mother
‘He was shaking the baby back and forth at this time and then held out the baby in line with his arms, then above his head shaking him aggressively. The baby was crying but then he stopped crying and turned blue.’
Speaking to police at the family home, the mother reported the father had threatened to throw the baby, stating: ‘I throw you, I kill you baby, I kill the baby’.
The father, who was arrested and bailed, denied having harmed the child, suggesting his wife was ‘stressed or depressed’.
He later gave a statement where he alleged the mother ‘bullies him’, ‘calls him names’ and physically chastised their children.
Following strategy meetings between the police, social services and the paediatrician from the hospital, the court was told the mother had made a number of allegations against the father, including that he would wake up [the baby] when he was asleep and say things like ‘f*** you little kid, stop crying little devil’.
‘The mother had seen the father google how to make a child disabled so she thinks [the father] is doing these things to give him brain damage to get more money from the government. He has also been seen to make [the baby] cry deliberately’, court documents state.
She further alleged the father has hidden her and the children’s passports to prevent her from returning to their country of origin, which cannot be named to protect the family’s anonymity.
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The baby’s mother had called the police on the night of the incident, telling a 999 call handler: ‘My husband kill my new born baby please help me please help me’ (stock image)
The father denied all of the mother’s allegations ‘in the strongest possible terms’, he said in a document filed with the court.
But after the baby’s shin fracture was discovered, the mother herself was added to the pool of possible perpetrators and she was arrested and bailed over the injuries, which she denied causing.
At the hearing on Monday, a Dr Patrick Cartlidge confirmed he had concluded the fracture caused to the baby was ‘most likely caused non-accidentally’.
He said shaking was a possible cause, but added that an adult changing a baby’s nappy ‘in a frustrated manner’ was also a common cause of such fractures.
The court was conducting a fact-finding hearing to determine whether the ‘threshold criteria’ are met. The threshold criteria are facts that must be proved during care proceedings before a court can consider making either a care order or a supervision order.
It heard the local authority had instigated protective measures in relation to the children as it was concerned they would ‘suffer significant harm’ as a result of the care their parents were giving to them.
‘If the mother’s account is true, [the baby] was likely caused significant physical harm (i.e. concussion)’, court documents submitted by the council state.
‘If the mother’s account is untrue, the children have likely suffered emotional harm (or were at risk of the same) by virtue of false allegations having been made.’
The court-appointed guardian on behalf of the children was arguing for them to be taken into foster care, something which the mother opposes.
The case continues.