Little girl starved to death...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8084972.stm

A seven-year-old girl died of starvation. She was kept prisoner by her mother and her mother’s partner. The girl has been starving for probably weeks or months. The court was told the girl Khyra died of an infection but the prosecutors say it was murder because the couple tried to harm khyra. In 2007 Khyra world has changed. Her happy life came to an end when her parent split up and Junaid Abuhamza became her mothers new boyfriend. From the moment he walked through the door he made sure the children did not get enough food and locked them up in a room. The mother took Khyra out of school and made sure no one could come in to visit. The jurors were told that UK doctors had rarely seen such a severe case of malnutrition. The mother and her boyfriend are charged with murder en severe child cruelties.

I find it hard to believe that a mother can take good care for her children for years and than suddenly changes into some cruel woman. I also wonder why children can be taken out of school and that no one will ever check if those children are okay and doing well. I do think that if you could keep children in school, things like this will not happen because their will be some social pressure. The mother and her boyfriend should go to prison for lifetime, in cases like this I am almost sorry that we do not use the death-sentence anymore.