A 37 year-old Nigerian woman in the United Kingdom, Balkis Adeoye is currently going through trauma as the heartbroken mother is demanding answers after her ‘beautiful and happy’ two-year-old girl drowned in a garden bin when she slipped out of the sight of her carer.
Mum-of-two, Balikis said her daughter, Mazeedat had been staying with people she ‘didn’t know or trust well enough’ at the time of her death.
She said that she had consistently asked for help from social services at Newham Council to find a foster placement for her daughter but to no avail.
The mother, who stated that she had no family support network to rely on, had asked the council about the placement while she stayed with her son, who was having heart surgery.
An inquest heard social workers did not arrange a placement and advised Ms Adeoye to find support from the community or friends.
As a result, Ms Adeoye had to leave her daughter with the carer as a last resort when she needed to be in hospital.
Following a search at the family home in Dagenham when the infant was identified as missing, the little girl was tragically found in a bin which contained nine centimetres of water.
Ms Adeoye moved to the UK from Nigeria in March 2021 and had first been referred to Newham Council four months before her daughter’s death because she was sofa surfing and she and Mazeedat had nowhere to stay.
-via Daily Mail.
