Dad Does Sickening Things to His Baby Daughter. Yet Cops Let him Walk free?!
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Maybe it's Maybelline. This is the infuriating case of Poppy Worthington. Hoppy Iris Worthington was born on october twentieth, twenty eleven, in Barrow and Furnace, Cumbria, England. Barrow and Furnace is a shipbuilding town right at the bottom of a peninsula in the northwest of England. It is a working class area, tight knit, and it's the kind of place where everyone knows everyone. Now Poppy actually had a twin brother plus several older siblings who I won't be naming and I wanna note that Poppy's mother cannot be legally named either. That's a reporting restriction the UK courts put in place to protect the other children, which is still in place as of today. Her father, however, is Paul Worthington, who was forty eight years old at the time.
He worked night shifts at an ASDA supermarket, which is a big UK grocery chain. He and Poppy's mother got together in 2009, and their relationship was described as very up and down, with very high highs followed by low lows. There were times where he didn't even always sleep at the house. Sometimes he stayed at a friend's place. Even through all of that though, Paul's wife described him as her best friend. So that kind of gives us a very broad idea of what home life was like for Poppy and her siblings. Now her mother described thirteen month old poppy as very alive, bubbly, and funny. Poppy had a big personality that drew the attention of everyone around her. She liked to be in charge. She was always the first one up in the morning and would make sure everyone else in the house was up with her.
Overall, she was a happy, healthy baby who was thriving by all accounts. However, in the days before her death it was described that Poppy wasn't feeling well.
Who was Poppy Worthington and what was her family background?
Actually she was a bit of a mess. Her mother said she was unsettled. There was one occasion where Poppy threw herself back in her high chair and cried out like she had this bad stomach pain. This was accompanied by really bad diarrhea, which her mother described as being the color of a red brick. She also had an upper respiratory infection at the time, which is basically a chest and upper airway infection, which is relatively common in babies her age. On the night of December 11th, 2012, the sleeping arrangements in that house were that Poppy's mother slept downstairs while Paul slept upstairs in the double bedroom. Poppy was in a crib in her own room. Paul later reported that before going to sleep in his bed that night, he was up on his laptop watching quote.
X rated adult material. However, by around two thirty AM that morning, now going into december twelfth, Paul said that Poppy became fussy, so he grabbed her from her crib and brought her into the room to come sleep with him. He tried giving her a pacifier, but she just wouldn't take it. He thought that maybe she was having trouble pooping, so he put two fingers on either side of her diaper to pull it away from her bottom a bit to give her some extra room to push. Now, I'm not a parent, so I guess I wouldn't know like this kind of specific detail about having a child. But if that's something that's pretty common, let me know down below. But otherwise, it doesn't seem like this is something that parents normally would do to a baby and their diaper.
But like I said, let me know 'cause I'm not totally sure. A few hours later though by around five thirty AM. Poppy's mother was awoken by the sound of Poppy screaming from upstairs. But according to her, it didn't sound like a normal cry. It wasn't a fussy cry she often heard when Poppy was hungry or needed to be changed. It sounded different. It was louder, more desperate. It sounded like she was in pain. Immediately after hearing the scream, she saw Paul rush downstairs to grab a clean diaper and then head back upstairs.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:21
2
Who was Poppy Worthington and what was her family background?
2:21–6:12
3
What health problems did Poppy experience in the days leading up to her death?
6:12–11:28
4
How did the night of December 11‑12 2012 unfold and what did witnesses hear?
11:28–15:42
5
What did emergency responders find at the scene and during the hospital autopsy?
15:42–26:39
6
What conclusions did the senior pathologist draw about the cause of Poppy’s injuries?
26:39–37:25
7
How did the family‑court and coroner’s inquests interpret the medical evidence?
37:25–40:16