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20/11/01 - Officer in Climbie
case 'was scared of scabies'
Chris Gray
Independent
A POLICE constable responsible for checking
that the home of the child abuse victim Victoria Climbie
was fit to live in refused to go enter the house for fear
of catching scabies, an inquiry into the girl's death
was told yesterday.
PC Karen Jones was asked to inspect the eight-year-old's
home before she was discharged from the hospital to which
she been admitted with scalding wounds on her head. She
told the inquiry into Victoria's death: "I was thinking
if she has scabies it wouldbe in the home too. It might
not be logical but I did not know anything about scabies."
Instead she invited Victoria's great aunt, Marie-Therese
Kouao, to a social services office two days before Victoria
was due to return home. She found no grounds for seeking
police protection and allowed Victoria to be discharged.
The girl died six months later. In January Kouao and
her boyfriend, Carl Manning, were convicted of her murder
and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The inquiry continues. |
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