The Colwell case
Sir: The Maria Colwell case has haunted me for months. I am a trained nursery nurse and know the very difficult time a child who has been in my constant care from birth to five or six years has to go through when one leaves, to say nothing, of course,of our difficulties on leaving them. It is too late now but 1 hope if lever come across such a case as Maria Colwell that I would not have waited for the bureaucracy to decide, and as a neighbour or teacher I would gather a few of the husbands and mothers around and enter the house and take this small child away.
Anyone can tell by the look on a child's face something is radically wrong. As to the blood case, I've known some very poor mothers, as well as good, and the same with nannies or nurses. As one who has several times had the sad experience, several times in my life of leaving charges after rearing them from infancy to five years, I know what I went through and most particularly the child even though these. children had their mothers. What is lacking today is the blessed gift of plain
common sense. Olive Williams The Dingle, Asheldon Road, Torquaa
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