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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Girl, two, who drowned in bin in London was failed by council, coroner finds

Balikis and Mazeedat Adeoye
Balikis Adeoye asked for foster care for her daughter Mazeedat for 10 days while she stayed in hospital with her ill baby son. Photograph: supplied

A two-year-old girl who drowned in a bin containing 9cm of water in a back garden in east London was a victim of “gross failures” largely by social workers, a coroner has concluded at an inquest.

At the time of her death, Mazeedat Adeoye was being cared for in Dagenham by an acquaintance of her mother, Balikis Adeoye, who had to stay in hospital with Mazeedat’s baby brother when he required urgent heart surgery.

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