The Skeleton Girl
by Being a human is lot more than a blob of meat and bones walking around the face of the earth boasting about the qualities he has and thinking himself superior than the rest of the species. Humanity is by conduct and is a state of action rather possessing the ability to walk upright without a tail.
A human is not a human until he behaves like one. These days stuff keeps popping on the media every now and then giving us a very glimpse picture of the human state of affairs. Humanity seems to ceasing to exist as we become more and more developed as a race.
Evolution, somehow, seems to be having a negative growth in the areas of morality. The case of baby P has shivered the spine of the developed world and must be seen as a snap shot of the social trends that are building in today’s world.
The grief of baby P is not yet over and we have this devastating picture of another pair of humans who again happen to be the ones who are supposed and designated to look after their child. Khyra aged just 7, dubbed as ‘The Skeleton Girl’, died out of starvation in the heart of Great Britain.
Her real mother and step dad starved her to death leaving her like a famine victim. She was subjected to a cruel, deliberate and calculated punishment regime which left her a virtual skeleton. The pathologist who performed her post mortem termed it as the worst case of malnutrition seen in the Western World.
She was starved for 5 months and then fell victim to the symptoms of malnutrition. During this period, she had been kept off school like a prisoner in her home by her very own real mother. The house had a well equipped kitchen with a fridge, freezer and a full pantry but a lock was fitted out of reach of Khyra and the five other kids living in the same premises.
The mum and step dad are now accused of killing and a case is in process against them in the court. Prosecutor Timothy told the court that ‘the youngsters were starved and starved and starved for weeks and weeks and weeks’.
Of khyra’s emaciated body he said, ‘You might have seen such things on TV-such as in famines in Africa’. It was also told that two other children also suffered acute malnutrition but have regained their health now.
Punishments were introduced if they were found stealing food from their own home. They were hit, all of them, severely. If they were successful in stealing, they were made to eat and eat until they were sick. They were detained and made to stand out in the cold.
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