Social workers from Derbyshire County Council decided to take Finley away from his Chesterfield-based parents as soon as he was born.
The legal bar in care cases was crossed since the authorities thought he would likely suffer “significant harm” at home.
They said Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden were living in filth and the stench of marijuana in their unkempt home.
The terraced residence was characterized as being “very filthy” and “at times dangerous, with feces on the floor.”
Because Stephen had previously been convicted of domestic violence against an ex-partner and the Police had previously been called after an argument, the social workers also warned that there was a risk of domestic violence.
However, the 10-month-old was returned to the custody of his drug-using parents after a Family Court was informed that they did not constitute an unacceptable risk.
But 39 days later, on Christmas Day 2020, the baby’s parents, Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden, brutally murdered the defenseless child.
He had sustained 150 wounds, including several fractures, burns, fractured bones, and bruises.
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