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| Insemination case: Chances missed to check on adopted daughter | |
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| A review into how a mother was able to force her adopted child to impregnate herself has found agencies missed opportunities to intervene. | A review into how a mother was able to force her adopted child to impregnate herself has found agencies missed opportunities to intervene. |
| Social services were contacted on four occasions with concerns before the girl gave birth to a son. | |
| A serious case review found the first complaint was dealt with by an unqualified officer who did not arrange for the family to be visited. | A serious case review found the first complaint was dealt with by an unqualified officer who did not arrange for the family to be visited. |
| The mother is serving a five-year prison sentence for child cruelty. | The mother is serving a five-year prison sentence for child cruelty. |
| Frozen sperm | Frozen sperm |
| The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, bought frozen sperm over the internet and forced her adopted daughter to artificially inseminate herself. | |
| The local children's social services department was contacted on several separate occasions prior to the child being born, the report said. | The local children's social services department was contacted on several separate occasions prior to the child being born, the report said. |
| Initially, no visit to the family was arranged. | Initially, no visit to the family was arranged. |
| Another complaint also led to the department "being fobbed off" by the mother, the report found, and an opportunity was missed to assess what was taking place. | Another complaint also led to the department "being fobbed off" by the mother, the report found, and an opportunity was missed to assess what was taking place. |
| The department was also "hesitant and lacking in authority" when dealing with another opportunity to provide proper care to the family, it said. | The department was also "hesitant and lacking in authority" when dealing with another opportunity to provide proper care to the family, it said. |
| 'Articulate and middle class' | |
| The report also said a GP should have reported an allegation that the daughter, who was 14 at the time, had been sexually assaulted or raped to the police or local authority. | |
| The health visiting service also gave "insufficient weight" to repeated safeguarding concerns about the family and may have been influenced by the "social profile of the family" who were "educated, articulate, middle class", it said. | |
| Despite serving a prison sentence, the mother does not accept that anything she did was "unlawful or inappropriate", the report said. | |
| Reporting restrictions means that the family, the local authority and the region of the country in which they lived cannot be named. | |
| The report also raised questions about how effectively local authorities can check on children who are being home-schooled and about the effectiveness of the laws governing online purchases of sperm. | |
| Serious case reviews can be carried out by local safeguarding children boards where abuse or neglect of a child is known or suspected and where there is concern over the way the relevant professionals an services acted to protect the child. |