On The Third Anniversary Of The Death Of Child Abuse Victim Victoria Adjo Climbie Her Parents Berthe And Francis With Brother Augustin And Sister Joelle Are Pictured At Kensal Rise Crematorium Kensal Rise London.14.1.03 Pic David Crump.features Speci] That same month the little girl was seen in casualty again with scalding to her head and face.
Kouao, 45, Victoria's Aunt, and her boyfriend, Carl Manning, were jailed for life a year ago for murdering Victoria, who had suffered months of abuse, being beaten, starved and kept tied in a binbag in a bath.
The daughter of her childminder who looked after Victoria during the day (she never went to school in the UK) suspected that her injuries were inflicted, but medical staff accepted Kouao’s story that Victoria had caused the wounds herself by scratching at scabies sores.
Victoria Adjo Climbie was born in the Ivory Coast to Francis and Berthe Climbie and sent to live with her great aunt Marie-Therese Kouao in Paris ‘for a better life’ in 1999.
PA photos...A] Horrifyingly, Lord Laming’s 2003 inquiry into Victoria’s death listed 12 missed opportunities when various agencies could have saved her life, blaming racism, incompetence and failures of duty of care.
