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Lara Prendergast

The sinister power of family courts

9 September 2017

9:00 AM

9 September 2017

9:00 AM

It’s right that some children are taken into care. One case in point is that of Ayeeshia-Jayne Smith, the toddler who was stamped to death by her violent young mother in 2014. She was known to social services for all of her short life, from the point when her pregnant mother was found living in a garage, but she was never removed.

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