CURLED UP NEXT TO HIS DEAD FATHER, A 2-YEAR-OLD BOY DIED OF STARVATION

Bronson Battersby died at his home in Skegness after a heart attack killed his father. Photograph: Facebook

Fri 19 January 2024:

A terrible incident occurred when a two-year-old boy starved to death, about two weeks after his father’s heart attack death.

According to his family, on January 9, Bronson Battersby was discovered dead, curled up, at his home in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, with his 60-year-old father, Kenneth.

This was 14 days after they were last seen.

Bronson was found curled up in his pyjamas next to his father Kenneth (pictured), 60, who is believed to have suffered a heart attack shortly after he was last seen alive on Boxing Day

The Lincolnshire County Council launched a rapid review into the death of Bronson who was indexed as vulnerable and was also subject to checks at least once a month by the social services.

The tragic incident came to light following social services’ visit to the deceased’s rented house on Jan 2 after speaking to Kenneth on Dec 27 where they did not receive any response.

A social worker went to visit the house on January 2, in one of the weekly visits Bronson received because he was classed as vulnerable, according to The Sun.

But there was no answer, so she made enquiries at other addresses and called police, according to Lincolnshire County Council.

The worker tried a second time on January 4, and called the police when there was again no response.

“They found Bronson curled up at his dad’s legs – he was left in the dark and must have been terrified and so confused,” a family friend told The Sun.

Bronson’s mother Sarah Piesse (pictured), 43, said she thought Bronson would be alive ‘if social services had done their job’.

Lincolnshire Police said it had referred itself to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is assessing what action to take.

Heartbreaking footage has emerged of Bronson celebrating his first birthday with a Teletubbies cake as his mother Sarah Piesse sung Happy Birthday.

The toddler’s mother, Sarah Piesse, said that she last saw her son before Christmas after a row with her ex Kenneth.

A pram and scooter could be seen in the garden outside the house where Bronson and Kenneth were found.

Piesse while talking to the Sun said that the postmortem examination showed that Bronson died of starvation and dehydration.

“Bronson starved to death because his dad died,” she said. “They think Kenneth died no earlier than 29 December.”

“I couldn’t pick him up because his body was too fragile,” she told the Sun. “I could only touch him. He had been left there too long,” she added.

The boy’s sister Melanie Battersby paid tribute to him on Facebook: “Beautiful little boy deserved so much better than this life. We love you Bronson, forever a part of us, and forever my baby brother.”

Adding her “head and heart [were] in pieces”, she said: “A lot of anger inside at minute when I just want to remember his little smile and soft nature instead. He were perfect.”

Bronson was last seen alive when he waved at a neighbour who called to see him and his father on Boxing Day, the Sun reported.

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