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CRIME: Couple jailed for torturing child / Victoria Climbie death: Failings of social services

In 2000, there was the horrifying case of Victoria Climbie, an eight-year-old child abuse victim who died at the hands of her great aunt and her partner. A report into Victoria's murder found that social services could have intervened many times to save her, but didn't. Now, there seem to be worrying echoes of this in the case of Kimberley Harte and her partner Samuel Duncan, jailed for what the judge described as 'systematic violence' against a defenceless three-year-old girl who was also severely disabled. The social services had already taken their daughter away and foster parents were very concerned that they should have been given care of her again. However, social workers repeatedly failed to notice that the two parents were treating their severely disabled daughter with cruelty so severe that a judge described it as torture. STILL Victoria Climbie

ITN Source | February 8, 2007Watch more videos from ITN Source

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