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Parents let 'porcelain doll' girl of 3 starve to death in filthy, beetle-infested room
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A girl of three died in squalor after being starved and neglected by her mother and stepfather, a court was told.
Tiffany Hirst was 'unloved, unwanted and left to die alone' in her bedroom above a pub run by the couple.
The little girl, as fragile as a 'tiny porcelain doll', was often seen by passers-by staring out of the first floor window.
She had been taken out of nursery school and kept away from other children of her age, yet tragically no one intervened to save her.
Weakened by lack of food and water, Tiffany died from pneumonia.
Yesterday, her local council began an inquiry into the tragedy – after it emerged that she had been seen by a health visitor seven months before her death.
More at link
Alan Jones, chairman of the Sheffield Safeguarding Children Board, said he was 'immensely saddened' by the tragedy and a serious case review was being carried out.
[link to www.propeller.com]
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