The call was made last weekend at a conference in Cambridge by the 'Which Of You Did It?' working group, set up by the NSPCC in its Full Stop campaign against child cruelty. As the law stands, parents who kill their children can escape being convicted if the courts cannot prove which one of them did it, even when the police know one of them struck the fatal blow.
If both parents deny the killing, the chances of either parent being convicted is very small.
NSPCC lawyer Barbara Esam said, 'The NSPCC is outraged by these cases where a child is killed or seriously injured and no one is held accountable.'
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