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2 minutes ago, Detournement said:

There's been no official confirmation or even hints in the media that she starved to death. People are just assuming that because the baby is malnourished.

It's an absurd assumption

Far more likely she took her own life

The impact of governmental decisions around asylum seekers leading to this of course requires, well, examining, don't know the words

Why would you not let someone who wants to work, work

That's what we need, hard working people who are going to contribute to society

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6 minutes ago, Binos said:

It's an absurd assumption

Far more likely she took her own life

The impact of governmental decisions around asylum seekers leading to this of course requires, well, examining, don't know the words

Why would you not let someone who wants to work, work

That's what we need, hard working people who are going to contribute to society

Seriously would not like to think she took her own life with total disregard for her baby.  Surely if she was contemplating that she would have left the baby with the father.

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1 minute ago, Hard Graft said:

Seriously would not like to think she took her own life with total disregard for her baby.  Surely if she was contemplating that she would have left the baby with the father.

It's horrible but far more likely afraid

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Wait, you mean The Foreigners aren't all sitting with massive tele's claiming all the benefits available?! Do the public know!?

Absolutely fucking disgusting that this has been allowed to happen. If people want to work,let them work. I'll go out on a limb here and guess she was doing a job that thousands of work-shy arseholes wouldn't dream of doing. How the f**k people can vote for the Tories is beyond me.
[emoji667] This is probably the best summing up there is.

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1 hour ago, Detournement said:

It could also be an accidental overdose or a medical issue. 

The idea that she decided to become the first person in the history of the Scotland to voluntarily die of thirst is laughable though. 

This is a weird hill to die on

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Until we cut our ties with rUK then we risk more Mercy Bagumas.  Making our own borders a sanctuary for people like her is not going to solve the problem but it will be a start, and it’s something within our grasp.

 

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17 hours ago, Detournement said:

It's difficult to starve to death. I don't think that will be the cause of death. 

not impossible though, especially if you get shafted by the DWP or the home office as appears to be the case here.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/28/disabled-man-starved-to-death-after-dwp-stopped-his-benefits

3 hours ago, Detournement said:

There's been no official confirmation or even hints in the media that she starved to death. People are just assuming that because the baby is malnourished.

it's not a wild leap in the normal run of things; if her baby is malnourished and PAIH have made it pretty clear that she was destitute and had applied for crisis funding recently, then chances are she's not been feeding herself properly either, no? Especially if the poor baby was getting breastfed, only a year old and I think that's still breastfeeding/handfed from a bottle age.

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it's not a wild leap in the normal run of things; if her baby is malnourished and PAIH have made it pretty clear that she was destitute and had applied for crisis funding recently, then chances are she's not been feeding herself properly either, no? Especially if the poor baby was getting breastfed, only a year old and I think that's still breastfeeding/handfed from a bottle age.
She had not been heard from in 4 days in the run up to her death therefor its possible that she has died (of any number of things) and that the baby hasn't been fed for 3 or 4 days therefor it was malnourished when it was found.
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7 minutes ago, Thistle_do_nicely said:
it's not a wild leap in the normal run of things; if her baby is malnourished and PAIH have made it pretty clear that she was destitute and had applied for crisis funding recently, then chances are she's not been feeding herself properly either, no? Especially if the poor baby was getting breastfed, only a year old and I think that's still breastfeeding/handfed from a bottle age.

She had not been heard from in 4 days in the run up to her death therefor its possible that she has died (of any number of things) and that the baby hasn't been fed for 3 or 4 days therefor it was malnourished when it was found.

fair enough, that makes sense.

Absolutely horrible thought.

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31 minutes ago, Thistle_do_nicely said:

not impossible though, especially if you get shafted by the DWP or the home office as appears to be the case here.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/28/disabled-man-starved-to-death-after-dwp-stopped-his-benefits

it's not a wild leap in the normal run of things; if her baby is malnourished and PAIH have made it pretty clear that she was destitute and had applied for crisis funding recently, then chances are she's not been feeding herself properly either, no? Especially if the poor baby was getting breastfed, only a year old and I think that's still breastfeeding/handfed from a bottle age.

The baby is out of hospital so the malnourishment could not have been too severe thankfully. 

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