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| Insemination case: Chances missed to check on adopted daughter | 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. | 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 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 'Articulate and middle class' | |
| 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 - educated, articulate, middle-class", it said. | |
| The report's author visited the mother in prison. | |
| "She [the mother] refused to accept that any of the matters which had led to her imprisonment were 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |