A five-year-old girl was choked, bitten and assaulted after being left in a house with an alcoholic mum and an unstable and violent man in the grip of severe mental illness.
The child, referred to as 'Melody' in a review of the case, attended Warrington Hospital with multiple bruises to her face, right ear and neck as well as bite marks to her right arm on January 20 last year, after being left with her mum's partner despite his clear and severe mental illness.
A Child Safeguarding Practice Review involving multiple agencies has now taken place, which identified shocking failures in the run up to the violence suffered by Melody - including failures to heed warnings that the partner, referred to as 'Adam' was a danger to Melody the day before the assault. The review also noted her mum, referred to as 'Angela', was an alcoholic who admitted to her GP that she usually drank two to three bottles of wine a day.
