Born on March 1, 2006, Baby P. was able to say his first words, among those words, was the word "dad" which is what he called his mothers boyfriend who she moved in shortly after her marriage to Smiley's biological father ended. Just four short months after his parents split up, his mother was already living with another man and his life of torture had begun. One December 11, Baby P. was taken to the hospital and admitted with a two ince bruise on his forehead as well as bruises on his chest and shoulder.

A pattern that I have seen many many times while researching child abuse cases, this seems to be a case of a mother who wanted to keep her boyfriend happy and would allow him to do anything he wanted to in order to achieve that. I wish that I could shake some sense into these women and tell them that no man is worth the life of their children.

While his mother was on the computer, her boyfriend put Smiley through some
of the most horrific things I have ever heard of putting a child through. Smiley was used as a punching bag, his finger nails were pinched with plyers until they fell off. He was wrapped in so many layers of clothing that he began to sweat and had trouble breathing. He was treated like a dog so much that when the boyfriend would go towards him, he would put his head to the floor like an abused dog.

When the home was searched, police found dog and human feces on the floor as well as rat holes in the walls. Pornography was found and along with that the bodies of mice, baby chicks and a dismembered rabbit. Smiley's bed and bedroom walls had stains of his own blood on them. He weighed less than a child five months younger than he was. Smiley had been hitting his own head on the walls and the floor.

Doctors and social workers had seen the injuries and the bruises which should have indicated that that Smiley was being abused. His mother was arrested wice under suspicion of abuse and was let go both times due to supposed lack of evidence.How can there be a lack of evidence when a child has that many injuries? None of these people were aware that the mother had moved in a man who was obsessed with causing pain to others. That is NO excuse though, this child was suffereing and they had an obligation to help him. They failed another child!

WARNING...Graphic in nature! Please do not click on the link if you are easily triggered. Chart of Smiley's injuries

The man Smiley called dad wore combat gear, collected Nazi memorabilia, was obsessed with knives and was rarely seen without his Rottweiler dog. Also in the home he kept martial arts weapons and a crossbow. Relatives told stories of his torture and killing of small animals. Smiley's "dad" had been prosecuted for the torture of animals and also was investigated for torturing his own grandmother in an attempt to get her to change her will to benefit him. Unfortunately, the grandmother died of pneumonia before this could happen. This 32 year old, illiterate man moved into Smiley's mothers home in North London and within weeks, began torturing the poor little baby boy.

Resources which were given to this mother included social services paying for a woman named Ann Walker who was a registered child minder, to take care of Smiley four days a week.  Ann said this:

Doctors who saw Smiley said that the wounds they were seeing were "very suggestive of on-accidental injury" and they called social services. Smiley's mother and grandmother were arrested on suspicion of abuse. On December 22, Smiley was placed on Haringey's child protection register. Of course this would prove to be of no help to Smiley. Smiley was returned to his mother on January 26, 2007. This was done AGAINST police advice. By March the case worker assigned to Smiley's case noticed a red spot on his face and was told by his mother than he had hit his head on the side of a table and that he bruised easily.

The claim was checked out by doctors who didn't believe the mothers story. A report made stating this some how managed to NOT make it to the police or to the social workers until after Smiley's death on August 3. In April, after Smiley had turned one, he was taken to the hospital with a large swelling and bruises on his head. Even though social services was informed of this, Smiley was once again returned to his mother with Miss Ward stating that she had no concerns.

Smiley's mother missed scheduled appointments with Paulette Thomas who was her health visitor and was told in June to take Smiley to the hospital for a protection order check up. At that time, doctors found 12 places on his body with scratches and bruising with what they called a grip mark on his leg. Once again, his mother was arrested on suspicion of abuse. SHOCKINGLY, smiley was once again sent home with his mother. She, once again, failed to take Smiley to scheduled check ups.

On two occasions police asked for cross agency meetings, in the week before Smiley would die. Both times Haringey's lawyers claimed there was not enough information to begin what is are known as care proceedings.

In July a man moved into the home as a lodger, his name was Jason Own. He also had three children and a 15 year old girlfriend. Owen says that Smiley's mother and stepfather put chocolate and nappy cream on his face and hands  to hide his injuries from the social worker. The social worker and Sabah Al-Zayyat, the pediatrician missed injuries on the child. 

On July 29, Smiley spent what would be his last visit with his biological father. The father said that Smiley's head had been shaved and that his hand had bandages on it to cover a missing fingernail. On July 30 when he brought Smiley back to his mother he says this happened:

On his last day alive, Smiley was failed by even the police who had tried to protect him. On August 2, the police told his mother that no further action would be taken against her due to the suspicions of her abusing him. That day, Smiley would receive one final blow that would knock out one of his teeth and cause him  to stop breathing. The tooth would be found later, in his stomach.

Found dead in his cot the next morning, the police went to the North Middlesex Hospital and had the nerve to be shocked that his mother showed no emotion. 
Smiley's mother was arrested as well as her boyfriend. Police went to her house to do a search and found that the mother who had claimed to be a "damned good mum", was nothing of the sort. Having ben raised by a drug addicted mother, she knew all about social workers and how to manipulate them. One of the senior officers said"

Having not known her biological father until adulthood, she was told as a teenager that she would have to choose between going into care or being sent to a boarding school. Choosing boarding school, she ended up leaving there at the age of 15 and worked as a barmaid and a hairdresser. She married a man twice her age in 2003. Their relationship went bad shortly after Smiley was born, in 2006.

On November 13, 2008, Smiley's mother gave birth to another child, while in prison. She is fighting for visitation rights with that child. While in prison she is said to have discussed the case with an anonymouse source who claims she said:

Surprisingly, a jury was unable to make a decision as for who struck the blow
that killed little Smiley and the man who tortured him for all those months was
found not guilty of murder. He was found guilty of causing or allowing the death
of a child. What is the difference? The man should go away for life. ALL three
of the people involved should never be free again and should never be able
to be around children again. 

Smiley's mother, stepfather and Jason Owen were scheduled to be sentenced in this case, on December 11, 2008. Disgustingly, each of them faces only a 14 year sentence for the horrible things that were done to this child. Name of
Smiley's parents are being withheld due to another charge of abused involving
another child in the family. How disgusting is it that these two people get more
protection after what they did, than an innocent child was ever given in his life?

On Christmas 2008, about 100,000 people released blue balloons for Smiley.
It does my heart good to know that so many people care about this little Angel and that he will be remembered.

Please don't let them become Angels to soon.

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