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Today’s true crime case is about 8 year old Victoria Climbié, a happy and intelligent little girl with her whole life ahead of her, who, in November 1998, was taken from her home in the Ivory Coast by her great Aunt Marie-Thérèse Kouao with Victoria’s family allowing this because Kouao promised Victoria a comfortable life in France and the best education. However, nothing could be further from the truth, Kouao was a sadistic psychopath and narcissist who used children to claim benefits from the state to fund her lifestyle. To her, this was their only purpose. In April 1999, after racking up debts in France Kouao relocated to the UK with Victoria who, by this point, was likely already being abused. Quickly Kouao met and began a relationship with a man called Carl Manning an equally sick and twisted individual and she and Victoria quickly moved into his flat in North London. It was here that, for the last 7 months of her short life, Victoria was subjected to the most inhuman and degrading treatment. She was bound, burned, scalded, starved, and beaten by Kouao and Manning as well as forced to sleep in a black bin-liner filled with her own excrement and urine in this bath tub in the depths of winter without any heating or light. Her life of horror came to an end on 25 February 2000 at the age of just 8 years old when her body simply gave up after months of torture and abuse. The pathologist noted 128 injuries on her tiny body and described it as the worst case of child abuse he had ever seen. There were at least 12 opportunities to save Victoria before her death, she has repeated contact with council workers, social services and doctors but no one did anything to save her. In Court the so called professionals in this case were called "blindingly incompetent". Chapters: 00:00:00 Beginning 00:02:05 Intro 00:05:33 Marie-Thérèse Kouao 00:10:54 Time in France 00:14:14 The scan in England begins 00:22:40 Carl Manning 00:26:46 The abuse of Victoria and Failure to protect the innocent 00:40:41 The murder of Victoria Climbié 00:45:06 Investigation 00:47:49 Legal proceedings 00:50:01 Public inquiry 00:57:26 Remembering Victoria Climbié 00:58:46 Signs of abuse and reporting concerns 01:05:00 Marie-Thérèse Kouao and Carl Manning: Profiles 01:12:00 End Website for looking up council information - https://www.gov.uk/report-child-abuse-to-local-council NSPCC information, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Website – https://www.nspcc.org.uk Phone - 0808 800 5000 (10am–8pm Monday to Friday) E-mail - help@NSPCC.org.uk Child Help USA Website - https://www.childhelp.org/ Phone - 1.800.4 A Child (1.800.422.4453) E-mail - info@childwelfare.gov State specific contact information - https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspList&rolType=Custom&RS_ID=5 Victoria Climbié Foundation - https://vcf-uk.org/ Evil among us is a channel which focuses on horrific serious cases from the UK and abroad with a focus on lesser known cases and serial murderers from around the world. Credit: Intro music by Eric Matyas: http://soundimage.org/dark-ominous/ Become a channel member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbQieVmQ4ScnEdme-GKgLA/join Please like, share, subscribe and comment.
