Double standards

 

"The case of the Clarence family is one of the most harrowing to have hit the headlines in recent years: a loving mother who cracked under the intense pressure of caring for her three severely disabled children and smothered them to death."

"It is impossible not to feel desperately sorry for everyone in that blighted family: the girl aged four and the three-year-old twin boys who lost their lives; the mother now detained in a psychiatric hospital, tormented by her deeds; the traumatised father left alone to rebuild his life."

"This week saw publication of a 70-page report by Kingston Council into the killings last year at the wealthy family's South London home..."

"The diagnosis must have been shattering for the Clarences. And by late 2010, shortly after the twins were found to have the same disorder as their sister, experts knew their mother was struggling to cope."

"No one can doubt that there was immense public sector input, with an astonishing nine health organisations, three local authority social care departments, two schools and one charity involved in their case. At times, there were more than 60 professionals involved with the family."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3334306/The-Clarence-family-social-workers-sneered-middle-class-parents.html#ixzz3tPtZw52V

Blogistan has a different view:

"If everyone is so biased against the white middle classes, why did this woman get such favourable treatment from the ‘justice’ and mental health systems after she killed her children? It’s preposterous. I suspect that if she had been a shouty, inarticulate woman from a council estate with a fake tan, she would be doing a triple life sentence now for murder. It was a miscarriage of justice and a dereliction of duty for the prosecution to accept a plea of diminshed responsibility and not to allow the claim to be tested in open court; it reflects a disdain for the value of the children’s lives and an excessive sympathy for an articulate, well-to-do white woman and, perhaps, a fear of negative publicity from precisely the quarters that are now crying `poor Tania`."

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http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2015/11/29/sympathy-for-tania-clarence-shows-disablist-attitudes#more-28120