Death Of Seven-year-old Girl Who May Have Starved To Death

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Khyra Ishaq was taken to hospital on Saturday. Pic: Caters News Agency An MP has called for an inquiry into council monitoring of a seven-year-old girl who died amid claims of neglect.

Birmingham Perry Barr MP Khalid Mahmood is demanding an investigation into the city's social services' contact with the family of Khyra Ishaq.

Khyra died in hospital on Saturday and one theory being looked at by police is that she starved to death.

Angela Gordon, 33, and Junaid Abuhamza, 29, have appeared before the city's magistrates charged with neglect.

The pair, believed to be Khyra's mother and stepfather, were remanded in custody until 28 May.

'Account for inaction'

Mr Mahmood claimed the youngster had been removed from school by her mother 10 weeks ago.

He says there should be an inquiry into what action was taken by officials.

Mr Mahmood pledged to write to the chief executive of Birmingham City Council.

He said: "There are structural issues here within the local authority that need to be addressed.

"I will be asking the local authority at the first available opportunity to account for their inaction. There are lessons to be learned here - we have to be far more stringent with people who don't take their children to school."

'Deeply saddened'

West Midlands Police said in a statement: "We can confirm that a seven-year-old girl was taken to hospital on Saturday 17 May, where she was pronounced dead."

The statement added: "Her cause of death has not been confirmed at this stage.

"Police are conducting inquiries and a man aged 29 and a woman aged 33 have been charged with neglect and appeared before Birmingham Magistrates on May 19.

"They have been remanded to appear again on 28 May.

"As proceedings are active, we cannot comment further at this time."

A Birmingham City Council spokesman said: "We are deeply saddened by the death of this child and our sympathies go to the child's family and friends at this difficult time.

"This death is now the subject of a police inquiry and Birmingham City Council are fully supporting the investigation.

"We are therefore unable to make any further comment."

Look how beautiful she is......................how could anyone do that to a child...........this hurts big time........

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tht is sooo bad to hear sumfin lyk this actually happens lyk in ur area, its amazin on wats hidden behind closed doors....

[Azaad]

this happened around the corner from my house in Handsworth...didnt know things like this still happened...

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vaheguru, vaheguru vaheguru oh man!!

what parents wud neglect their own child!!

vaheguru!