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Covid Lockdowns Used as Cover by Abusers to Inflict Tragic Child Abuse, Experts Warn

by Richard Eldred
5 August 2023 11:00 AM

Experts have revealed the horrifying extent to which Covid lockdowns provided a dangerous cover for abusers to inflict fatal harm on vulnerable children. Government figures show a 20% rise in child deaths involving abuse or neglect in 2020-2021. The Mail has the sad story.

Lockdown restrictions at the height of the Covid pandemic were used “as a cover” by abusers to hurt their children, an expert has said, after the “evil” parents of 10 month-old Jacob Crouch were this week jailed for his murder.

Jacob is just the latest in a string of tragic, fatal cases of child abuse to have emerged from the pandemic including that of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Lola James and Star Hobson.

Experts have told how usual safeguarding methods or chances to spot serious abuse such as schools, health workers and children’s clubs were absent or moved online during the pandemic, meaning abusers could harm children in their care with impunity.

Just this week 10 month-old Jacob’s killer stepfather was jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years, after the infant was found dead with dozens of injuries and at least 39 rib fractures in December 2020.

Now national child abuse charities such as the NSPCC are warning of the rise in deathly harm which occurred during lockdown, and the impacts which are still coming out of it.

Star Hobson was just one of multiple children murdered by parents or guardians who took advantage to coronavirus restrictions

Star Hobson (above) was just one of multiple children murdered by parents or guardians who took advantage of coronavirus restrictions.

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was murdered during the pandemic after his father and step-mother refused to return him to school

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes (above) was murdered during the pandemic after his father and step-mother refused to return him to school.

Even cases from the months leading up to the pandemic, such as that of Kyrell Matthews, two, raise concerns

Even cases from the months leading up to the pandemic, such as that of Kyrell Matthews, aged two, (above) raised concerns.

Abigail Gill, Associate Head of Policy and Public Affairs at the NSPCC, told the Guardian: “We are now starting to see the impact that lockdown has had on children’s social care and vulnerable children. 

“What these cases show is that our deepest fears did come to fruition for some children and harm was taking place behind closed doors.”

She continued: “What we’ve seen in quite a few of the cases is the way in which lockdown measures were actually used as a cover by some adults who were intent on causing harm to those children. 

“Now that those cases are coming through the court system, we’re seeing the horrible details of all of that come to light.”

Government figures show the number of child deaths involving abuse or neglect rose by 35, or around 20%, to 223 in 2020-2021. There were also 87 more serious incident notifications relating to children than in the previous year.

The NSPCC found its services were 23% more in demand during the same timeframe.

Numerous courts have heard harrowing details about how parents or guardians abused lockdown rules to get away with increasingly horrific abuse – Arthur’s parents kept him off school even after the easing of lockdown while Finley Boden’s stopped social workers entering their home using the guise of Covid restrictions.

Worth reading the all-too-long list of heart-wrenching cases in full.

Tags: Child abuseChildren's WelfareCOVID-19Domestic abuseLockdown harms

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Monro
Monro
3 months ago

Foreign aid is a luxury that Britain can no longer afford

‘During Sling Stone, a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA launched from Andersen Air Force Base successfully intercepted a Medium Range Ballistic Missile target more than 200 nautical miles northeast of Guam.’

An anti ballistic missile air defence system is expensive, missiles $5m/shot plus expensive command and control, target acquisition, tracking and launcher equipment.

We don’t have any except those fitted to Type 45 destroyers and they are designed to protect our aircraft carriers.

It seems unlikely that Putin will fire nuclear missiles at Britain. But he has fired non nuclear ballistic missiles at Ukraine and he has already killed and wounded British citizens on British soil.

Defence must come first, a given in the period after WW2.

This country has forgotten what an unmitigated disaster war is.

We must be able to deter aggression to prevent war.

Deterrence is the most cost effective form of defence….but you cannot do it on the cheap…..

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
3 months ago
Reply to  Monro

I wonder how many civilians British missiles have killed and injured in the southern border regions of Russia?

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BillT
BillT
3 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

Not as many as the Russian missiles have killed in Ukraine.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
3 months ago
Reply to  BillT

Many Ukrainians have been killed by their own missiles, and that doesn’t include the thousands of casualties from the Ukrainian shelling of Donbas towns.

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Monro
Monro
3 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Equipped with advanced navigation and guidance systems, the Storm Shadow is designed to minimize collateral damage while achieving high mission success rates.

‘Italian Tornado IDS aircraft also fired between 20 and 30 Storm Shadows during this campaign. This was the first time Italy fired the missile operationally, and it had a 97 percent success rate.’

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
3 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Which must mean that they were deliberately targeting Russian civilians.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
3 months ago

According to the Daily Sceptic, correctly:

“An alleged rapist who identified as a woman has died before he was due to appear in court charged with raping a young girl, reports the Mail.”

And according to the judge, correctly:

“His Honour Judge Nicholas Rowland said: ‘I haven’t had any sight of correspondence concerning Mr Wilson.'”

Yet according to the Daily Mail, insanely:

“An alleged rapist who identified as a woman has died before she was due to appear at court charged with raping a young girl with ‘your penis’.”

“she”!

The Daily Mail refers to the alleged rapist as “she” throughout the article, despite the references to his penis, and reporting that the judge referred to the man as “Mr Wilson”.

Why is the Daily Mail choosing to be so insane?

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
3 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Of course, the BBC refers to the alleged rapist as “she” too, but we expect no better from the BBC:

“News of the death of Maddison Wilson, who was born male but identified as a woman, was given in Southampton Crown Court ahead of a plea hearing she was due to attend on Wednesday.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y920n0zj4o

“Her death has been listed at the Portsmouth Coroner’s Court, which said she died in Southsea two days after she appeared at Southampton Magistrates’ Court.”

Did the Portsmouth Coroner’s Court actually say “she” died in Southsea…, or is this the BBC deliberately misreporting?


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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
3 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

The Telegraph manages to avoid referring to him as either ‘he’ or ‘she’, apart from quoting an inquest stating “…she has suffered with mental health challenges for a number of years.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/26/trans-woman-dies-facing-trial-for-raping-young-girl/

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Mogwai
Mogwai
3 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

They should all just report such men as “trans-identified man” and use the appropriate “he” pronoun. I note the writers of these articles are all men, but could just be coincidence given how many women are also on-board with this woke bollocks. Misogyny is rife but with regards to the Trans agenda and Islam, both of these camps also hide and enable sexual predators and paedophiles. These creeps are then protected and enabled to carry out their degenerate behaviour due to the useful woketard idiots, as we well know by now. Reality and biological fact, that has served us perfectly well since the year dot, take a back seat.
So many mentally ill narcissists in the Transtifa cult. You know they’re narcissists because their ‘transness’ is their entire identity and consumes them and they live their lives online, seeking continuous validation. Just one of countless examples. The self-obsession is off the scale;

https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1894875559164866677

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Dinger64
Dinger64
3 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Ho dear, how sad, never mind!

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
3 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Well, he doesn’t identify as anything any more, thank goodness.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 months ago

“Wind turbines to be painted black to stop bird strikes” Also reported by the “World Service” in the small hours. Perhaps the wind will keep them cool – but what about calm, bright days? Spot the potential snag.

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For a fist full of roubles
3 months ago
Reply to  JohnK

How to make an eyesore more visible against the skyline? In the words of the Stones – paint it black.

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DS99
DS99
3 months ago
Reply to  JohnK

Having just got a quote for painting the outside of my house (scaffolding now mandatory) I’m guessing the cost of painting wind turbines would be eye watering.

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JohnK
JohnK
3 months ago
Reply to  DS99

It’s probably more likely that they could be made in that colour in the factory, rather than actually “painting” them. After all, almost any paint would wear off out at sea; you’d get black & white spots all over then – perhaps easier to spot, especially given that bird eyesight is a lot better than ours!

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
3 months ago

“‘I will never be truly English: here is why’” – We have allowed what once made England distinctive to be diluted, denigrated and demonised, says Suella Braverman…

“…To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots,” said Solzenyhtsin decades ago.

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Monro
Monro
3 months ago

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/27/europe-left-behind-trump-grabs-ukraines-mineral-wealth/

This is one of the ways in which the defence budget used to pay for itself.

Britain’s armoured formations deterred an invasion of Kuwait in 1961.

The first gulf war in 1990/91 cost upwards of £100 billion.

And Britain’s military presence in the region until 1971 gave this country preferential access to the natural resources of the gulf nations.

Harold Wilson gave all that up, withdrawing British influence from the fastest growing regions of the world east of Suez.

Wilson was a civil servant before entering politics.

Britain requires businessmen at the helm, and, realistically, only one party is offering that…..

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
3 months ago
Reply to  Monro

I understood he was an Oxford academic. I have always wondered how he could afford homes in Hutton, Westminster and on Scilly Isles. Also a farm, I heard.

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john ball
john ball
3 months ago
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He certainly had a house in the Hampstead Garden suburb. I am not sure he owned anything in Westminster apart from living rent free in Downing Street.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
3 months ago

“Counting the dead” – Laura Dodsworth exposes how the UK’s chaotic Covid death toll counting fuelled fear, buried the truth and left a trail of bad policy in its wake…

…Died of, died with and murdered by the State.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
3 months ago

“Wind turbines to be painted black to stop bird strikes”

That’ll be a windfall for the petrochemical industry.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 months ago
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😀😀😀

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A. Contrarian
A. Contrarian
3 months ago

There is a excruciating advert on the radio at the moment, in which members of the “public” talk about how amazing their heat pumps are, apparently even the cats love it. I don’t know about you but I’m convinced.

Every other advert now seems to be some sort of nudging or government infomercial.

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klf
klf
3 months ago
Reply to  A. Contrarian

I don’t know about you but I’m convinced.

I must rush out and get one!! These nudge adverts piss me off.

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Purpleone
Purpleone
3 months ago
Reply to  klf

Pisses me off even more knowing we are probably indirectly paying for it in some form or another…

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A. Contrarian
A. Contrarian
3 months ago
Reply to  klf

Yes, the very cheek of them thinking I’m gullible enough to rush out and buy something just because some actors on the radio are telling me how great it is.

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Heretic
Heretic
3 months ago

“‘I will never be truly English: here is why’” –says Suella Braverman in the Telegraph.”

She will never be truly English, because English people all around the world are descended from their Ethnic European = White ancestors, who have lived in these islands for more than a thousand years, and built England into a great nation. Just as their descendants built other lands into great nations, wherever they went on the planet.

“English” is an ETHNIC IDENTITY, a Tribal Identity, a Shared Genetic Kinship among White People, not a mere nationality or birthplace.

Just as she and her parents are Ethnic Indian Subcontinentals, regardless of their specific tribe, nationality or birthplace.

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Heretic
Heretic
3 months ago
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Both of her Ethnic Indian parents had used African countries as stepping-stones to the West, as Ethnic Africans in Africa have often said of Indian Subcontinentals in Africa.

Neither in her mother’s country of Mauritius, nor her father’s country of Kenya, were they considered by Ethnic African people to be Ethnic African.

Nor do Ethnic Indians in Africa consider themselves to be Ethnic Africans, regardless of birthplace.

Nor do Ethnic Africans in India consider themselves to be Ethnic Indians, regardless of birthplace.

Only in the West do Third World Ethnic immigrants demand to be falsely considered as Ethnic Europeans.

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klf
klf
3 months ago

Good video by Jenrick. Proving that Starmer and his chums are not only traitors, but are the zealot’s zealot.

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