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A two-year-old toddler, Bronson Battersby, starved to death next to his dead father Kenneth five days after he suffered a heart attack in the United Kingdom, Daily Mail reports.
According to the family, Battersby was found curled up in his pyjamas next to his father, 60, who is believed to have suffered a heart attack shortly after he was last seen alive on Boxing Day.
A social worker visited their home in Skegness, Lincolnshire on January 2, for a routine visit but received no reply and contacted the police.
They visited again on January 4 but again there was no response. The social worker contacted the police again that day.
Shockingly the bodies of Kenneth and Bronson – who was classed as vulnerable and was being checked on weekly – were not found until January 9 when the social worker herself used a key from the landlord to get into the home.
The toddler’s mother, Sarah Piesse, 43, last saw her son before Christmas after a row with her ex.
She told The Sun, “If social services had done their job, Bronson would still be alive. But they didn’t do anything.
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