Sharon Shoesmith talk about suicidal thoughts
Sharon Shoesmith,55, the social services boss fired over Baby P’s death has told how she thought about killing herself over the very public scandal.
Baby P died after serial abuse at the hands of his mother, boyfriend and a lodger. The baby was left at the abusers home despite social services knowing that the child was in peril.
Shoesmith said she had thoughts of suicide after a flood of abusive calls, some suggesting how she could kill herself.
Sharon Shoesmith said: “You do consider how to stop it all. You can just walk off the end of the Tube platform and stop it all and I certainly did think about that on one occasion. There was certainly another occasion in the middle of the night when I gathered up all the paracetamol that existed in the house and there was nothing like enough.”
Ms Shoesmith, abandoned her own home and moved in with her daughters when it became clear just how much public outrage was directed at her over Baby P’s death. Sharon claims she is now almost penniless despite news reports she walked away with a million pound pension.
She added: “Of course I expected criticism. Nothing is perfect. But not that. I was really very shocked.”
“I just think it’s a huge travesty for Haringey. I don’t think people really understood quite what the potential impact would be. Now you’ve got this local tragedy and a national catastrophe.”
She maintains none of her staff knew there were two men in the flat with Baby P’s mother.
The three were convicted of causing Baby P’s death following eight months of torture.
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Alison Stevens on Mon, 16th Mar 2009 10:24 pm
So Shoesmith has thought about committing suicide, well she as soon got her fighting spirit back, to take Ed Balls,and his Department to Court, over, as she calls it, illegal sacking from Haringey County Council.
That doesn’t sound like a depressed women to me.
She should hide her face in shame forever.
Due to her Departments failures,in protecting vulnerable Children,Local Authority Care Proceedings up and down the Country,have increased by 25%.
Social Services are taking Babies from Hospitals, within hours of Birth, on Emergency Protection Orders, with very little evidence to support such drastic action.
They are obviously afraid of another Child death.
With the above, comes the claim, that innocent Parents may be caught up in the system,and have there Children taken wrongly into Care,and experiance a gross miscarriage of Justice.
I am taking up to ten new cases a day, with my Support group helpline.
My message to MS Shoesmith is fade into the background,and retire graciously on your fat cat pension.