A MOTHER was last night arrested over the alleged murder of her four-year-old daughter, who was found drowned in the bath.

Forensic officers searched Chloe Fletcher's home

By the time the police and an ambulance arrived at her home, little Chloe Fletcher was dead.

Last night shocked neighbours in Wallasey, Merseyside, described the 22-year-old mother as a “loner” and her daughter as “angelic, bubbly and gorgeous”.

Although the family was known to Wirral social services, Chloe was not on the “at risk” child register.

The alert was raised early yesterday when police received a 999 call from a phone box about half a mile from Chloe’s home.

Mark Lamb, 33, who was staying at a friend’s house next door, said: “The police arrived and said, ‘Let us in’.

“A lady came and she said, ‘I think she’s dead’. Then the police said, ‘Who’s dead, where?’

“They went in, then six or seven police cars arrived and an ambulance.

“I saw the lady handcuffed and taken into a police car about 20 minutes later. After that forensic officers came and a doctor.”

Neighbour Debbie Davies added: “I saw the little girl’s body being carried out on a trolley.”

Another of the family’s neighbours, James McManus, 67, saw the mother wearing a tracksuit being taken away in handcuffs by police. He said: “I used to hear the child laughing and joking when she woke up but never a word from her mum.”

Forensic officers were last night combing the house’s bathroom.

via Daily Express.

The dictionary meaning of word cruel says - to make someone suffer or to give pain to someone. Are all of us cruel in our own ways? Some of us are more than others, but is cruelty a part of every personality?

Let us look at it from the other side? Do not we all feel that many times our friends, family and even the people dearest to us act in ways that hurt us? Sometimes, we tell them about it, and sometimes we ignore. But is it not true that all those who relate with us closely at some point in our life, hurt us? The hurt may not be by a deed. It can be words spoken harshly. It can be misunderstanding our motives and giving them different colour. It can be accusing us for no fault of ours. Or it can be simply not trying to understand us. All these actions hurt us. Do not we think at that time that if the other party had been more understanding, we would have felt more comfortable?

Cruelty does not escape even the most loving mothers. When a mother is tense and tired, many times, she lets her child cry for milk for sometime ignoring the cries and rather cursing the child of hunger at all the times. The child does not understand any of his/her mother’s problems, but only wants to be fed. It is not the child’s mistake, but he /she is hurt. Why?

Husbands knowingly not trying to help their wives in household chores, wives knowing all about husband’s career problems still blaming him for small mistakes, children in a class room, targeting a child for a physical quality, and so on. Are all these not parts of a cruel nature?

Companies not responding immediately to consumer’s problems, consumers hammering the companies for smallest faults, lawsuits being filed for trivial matters, students made to slog in the schools to get higher marks at the cost of their childhood, politicians accusing each other of crimes never committed, and so many other such instances that can be cited to prove that somewhere in our life, we begin losing our compassion. Sadly, in most of the cases, we are not aware of our cruelty. We become aware of it only when we are targeted. Do you not agree that the world is slowly becoming a cruel world?

The 34 nails embedded in this skull clearly show the cold-blooded brutality inflicted on a murdered Chinese man.

Death By Nails

The horrific X-ray image has been released by Australian police hunting those responsible for repeatedly shooting Chen Liu, 27. They attacked him with a gas gun normally used by constructors to fire 3.3in nails into wood.

His badly decomposed body, wrapped in plastic, wire and cord, was found on marshland in south Sydney by two children in November.

The weapon used on Mr Chen, who moved to New South Wales after arriving in Melbourne as an immigrant student in 2000, has not been found. But Supt Geoff Beresford said: “In 36 years, I’ve never seen such a murder.”

A TEACHER has been suspended after being accused of locking a special needs boy of four in a cupboard.

It is claimed that pregnant Samantha Marsh shut the lad away in the unlit hallway cupboard after he was repeatedly disruptive in her class.

Child abuse cops are probing the alleged incident. A dad with two children at the school said last night: “All the parents are disgusted. How can anyone treat a child like this?

“This boy needs extra help and a bit of patience from the teachers.

“What she has done could haunt him for the rest of his life.”

The reception class teacher, in her 20s, was suspended after a colleague reported her to the head.

A source at Mead Primary School in Harold Hill, Essex, said: “A few teachers saw what happened. They were gobsmacked. Every teacher has to deal with difficult kids.

“Apparently the boy was shouting and screaming. She wasn’t able to calm him down, so she just got rid of him. It’s frightening to think a teacher could do this to a four-year-old.”

Mrs Marsh had been due to start her maternity leave in July.