A small child will be placed in protective custody after a judge determined that his mother was unable to safeguard him from his sex offender father.
Slough Children First initiated legal proceedings due to concerns regarding the interaction between the father, who was convicted of sexually abusing his daughter in 2021, and the youngster.
The boy’s two siblings, including the girl, were placed in protective custody following her allegations of recurrent abuse by their father.
The father was incarcerated for two years in 2013 for sexually assaulting a woman. A judge at Slough Family Court determined that the boy’s mother was either unwilling or unable of safeguarding him.
Evaluations indicated that the mother’s IQ fell inside the “extremely low range,” placing her at the 0.5th percentile.
Legal agreements prohibited the father from visiting the mother’s residence; yet, he was discovered to have done so numerous times over a span of seven months.
The youngster exhibits considerable speech and language difficulties and is receiving an evaluation for autistic spectrum disorder.
Judge Richard Case found on Thursday that moving the boy from his mother’s care would cause harm “but that harm is less than the risk of harm in the mother’s care”.
The father had told social workers that “children can be at fault for sexual abuse” and had continued to deny the accuracy of findings and convictions against him.
The judge found that the mother had be unwilling or unable to engage in sexual abuse awareness work or deny the father’s risk.
The judge said: “Should [the boy] come to read this judgement in due course I would want him to be aware that his mother loves him very much and has fought for him to remain in her care.
“But sadly her limitations, largely not of her own making, mean remaining in her care is just not possible for welfare reasons.”
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