Warning: This post deals with child abuse and may be distressing for some readers.
Three-year-old Tony Smith is now living in a stable home, safe and loved by his adoptive parents Mark and Paula Hudgell and his siblings.
But before he was taken from his abusive parents as a baby, they managed to leave him with a permanent, life-altering reminder of the horrific pain they inflicted on him.
When Tony was just a month old his birth parents, Tony Smith and Jodie Simpson, swung him by his ankles, resulting in two legs broken in eight places.
The pair had left him in agony for 10 days before seeking medical treatment. When he eventually made it to hospital, he was “seconds away” from death due to sepsis, his adoptive mother later said.
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I will never ever ever be able to get my head around why some adults make the choice to deliberately hurt children. There is no excuse. Period.
I believe children are old enough to make a decision about whether/ not they want to visit their parents. It's a simple choice. Giving the child that power would make a big difference.
He was only a little baby, but surely with the history they would be supervised?