Personally... I question the fact that social services didn't keep an eye on someone who had been suffering from munchausen's syndrome. She poured acid on herself in the past to get attention. Doesn't shock me that she would develop the "by proxy" form of the illness.
I have more issues with the hospital myself because I've just read a story that pointed out that "Doctors continued to look for a conventional diagnosis despite warnings from individual nurses and specialists - and though David's father Keith accused his wife of tampering with the drip".
Even though several peeps said the drip have been tampered with, no one did a thing. The hospital even admitted that "What we didn't do was to make sure the feeds could not be tampered with in any way whatsoever."
Some other points in the story included:
- Nurses on 24-hour watch failed to spot Stocker spiking feeds in the ward kitchen
- Doctors ignored numerous warnings of tampering and evidence of it happening five months before David's death
- Stocker's history of self-harm and faking illness were not investigated
- Social services neglected to complete an assessment of David
- Police failed to launch a criminal inquiry
- There was no co-ordination between medical and social services staff who dealt with David
[source:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16871406?source=Evening%20Standard]
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