| Location | Sheffield |
| Age | 3 years |
| Date of Death | 10/2007 |
| Visitors | 8,131 since 12/06/2008 |
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Tiffany Wright aged 3 starved to death by her mother and stepfather. This little girl deserves to
be remembered, her story must be told.
A three-year-old girl as fragile as a 'tiny porcelain doll' died in squalour after being
starved and neglected by her cruel mother and stepfather, a court was told.
Tiffany Wright was 'unloved, unwanted and left to die alone' in her bedroom above a pub
run by the parents.
The sad little girl would be seen by passers-by staring out of the first floor window. She was
stopped from going to nursery and kept away from other children of her age, yet tragically no one
intervened to save her.
The Scarbrough Arms pub where the body of 3-year-old Tiffany Wright was found
It is difficult to imagine a more horrific 'natural' death. Weakened by lack of food and
water, Tiffany died from pneumonia.
Paramedics found her lying in a filthy bed in a beetle-infested room at the Scarbrough Arms on Addy
Street, Sheffield. The youngster had been dead for up to two days. She was shockingly underweight
and her body covered in insect bites.
Her mother Sabrina Hirst, 22, and stepfather Robert Hirst, 54, were originally charged with murder.
But the Crown Prosecution Service accepted Sabrina's guilty plea to manslaughter on the grounds
of 'gross negligence' and her partner's plea to a lesser charge of neglect.
Tiffany's stepfather Robert Hirst, 54, has been found guilty of neglect
The couple have also pleaded guilty to the neglect of a 12-month-old child.
Both were remanded in custody on Wednesday by Judge Alan Goldsack, QC, who adjourned the case at
Sheffield Crown Court for reports.
The court was told Tiffany's death was a result of repeated and severe malnourishment. A post
mortem examination found development of her bones had been abnormal, indicating malnourishment and
growth happening in bursts when she had been fed.
The pathologist also discovered the organ responsible for her immune system was 'much
smaller' than it should have been.
Seven months before she died Tiffany was seen by a health visitor and 'appeared healthy and
well.'
It is not known whether the family were involved with social services, but a multi-agency
investigation has been launched into her death.
Detectives believe the little girl had been loved as a baby and toddler, but when Robert Hirst came
into her life things were to dramatically change.
Not only was she starved of love and attention, but they failed to give her the most basic level of
care by denying her food and water.
Experienced police officers have been left shocked by the tragic case.
Outside court Detective Inspector Steve Williams, said: 'We think this neglect had been going
on for months and that those last few months, weeks and days of her life she was unloved, unwanted,
starved of attention and left alone to die and she would have known that.
'Children are a gift who should be cherished. Parents everywhere, those who have lost them and
people unable to have them will find this treatment unbearable and unthinkable.
'She was like a tiny porcelain doll, so tiny and frail and we all wondered how this had been
allowed to happen in this day and age.'
He added: 'This must never happen again and if people have any concerns at all or suspicions
about the welfare of a child they must call somebody because out of every thousand calls followed up
if only one turns out to be founded and a child's life is saved it is worth it.'
The Hirsts were licensees of the Scarbrough Arms in Sheffield. The court heard for over 13 months
before Tiffany's death, they were 'in a habit of leaving children locked up in residential
quarters upstairs.'
When the girl died last September police found the house in a squalid condition, with live
electrical wires hanging from the walls and one room where the family dogs were kept was full of
excrement and urine.
The court heard the decision to accept the mother's manslaughter plea had been made because it
could not be proved she knew her actions would have killed Tiffany. While Robert Hirst escaped with
a neglect charge because he started a new job, assisting a lorry driver, a week before her death and
was away 12 or 13 hours a day.
The judge said he had breached his duty of care to check on Tiffany, while Sabrina had never been
able to answer a single question as to how this child could die in her care.
Alan Jones, Chairman of the Sheffield Safeguarding Children Board, said he was 'immensely
saddened' by the tragedy and a serious case review was being carried out.
He said the inquiry would 'look at the involvement that agencies had with this family and to
make sure any necessary changes are made so that children in Sheffield are no longer put at risk in
this way.'
TODAY 27TH JUNE 2008
SABRINA HIRST RECEIVED 12 YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR MANSLAUGHTER
ROBERT HIRST RECEIVED 5 YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR CHILD CRUELTY.
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I would just like to reassure everyone that although the time Tiffany's mother and the thing that called himself a step father spend in jail my be short they will suffer.
Inside jails are real mothers and fathers, family people and i'm not just talking about the inmates, i mean the wardens as well. Doors will be accidently left unlocked, keys mislaid, eyes diverted by minor incidents. They will not receive one meal during their stay at her majesty's without their food being spat in or tampered with in some obscene manner.
Do not believe all you read about the luxuries & relaxed life style that prisoners have, a tv or radio, games of pool, will mean nothing when you have commited a crime as heinous as this pair have.
i am struggling to take in the words i have just read. i cant wait for my three yr old daughter to come home from school now just so i can give her a big hug and tell her i love her. to deprive a child of love is unthinkable, but food and water... how utterly evil. these monsters deserve the same fate. they shud literally be locked up und the key thrown away. tiffany darling may you be happy and safe in heaven.. away from all evil... sweet dreams princess. xxxxxxxxxx
This is 1 of te most shocking cases I have ever read. Cant believe a mother would treat her own child in that way. I lost my child 11 weeks ago and would do anything to have him back. Why is it that good, loving parents lose their children and evil people like that are able to get away with mistreating their children for so long.
Tiffany, now you are in heaven no harm can come to you and Il ask my precious angel Kayden to look after you. Sleep tight princess xxxxxxxxxx
or baby girl...
u be safe now , noboday can hurt u now my heart is with u darlin, u play in clouds with the angels
my dear child the angels have now took you under there wings an your safe good nite little one xxxxxxxxxxx god bless
some one who cares
why again, has this happend to an inoccent ,defencless child, and what garbage the so called mother and stepfather speak, they want to be given to the hands of other mothers who have hearts and love there kids and we would deal with them ,coz the judge will just give them a pathetic sentence, i now what i would do with them, i cry so many times over this crulty to children, tiffany i will put your message on the other page, i wont associate you with those two
How Can This Keep Happening
This Is Soo Sick How Can You Do That To Someone So Small & Helpless! The Law Needs To Change Rite Away Otherwise So Many More Children Are Going To End Up Dead!!
Its Wrong How People Can Do This To There Own Flesh & Blood. I Have A 3 Year Old Daughter My Self & If Anyone Come In To My Life & Wanted To Change The Way I Looked After Her He Would Be Right Out The Door!!
How The Mother Can Say She Never New This Was Going To Happen Is Complete Lies In My Eyes!! People Must Have Seen This Frail Little Girl Standing At The Window Of This Pub & Dont Nothing About It!!!
If I Saw Her I Would Have Called The Police There & Then. Everyday You Watch The News & There Is Children/Adults Getting Mudered This Needs To Stop Now!! We Should All Get To Together & Stop This It Cant Keep Going On!
I Pay 2 Pound a Month To Children That Get Beaten & Sexually Abused By The People They Call Mummy & Daddy!! Tiffany Hunny I Wish Someone Had Seen This Before You Had Died Its So Sad.
But Sweetheart You In A Better Place Now With Out Them So Called People You Called Mummy & Her Evil Nasty Boyfriend!! I Hope You Enjoy Playing On Your Cloud Baby.
I Hope Yoou Have Loads Of Friends That You Play With Have Fun Sweetheart!
Love From Vikki & Little Ella-May xxxxx
some one who cares
little tiffany, you not lonely now babes, you have little angel friends to play with, and will be treated well and loved and theres lots of good mummys and daddys around you now that will be queing up to love and look after you babes, you tiffany like other neglected children deserve better, be happy,( passerby`s lets make sure people take notice of these horrific things that happen to children, watch-listen -take notice- take action -pick that phone up,) if your anything like me i have sleepless nights and feel ill when i read anything in the news of this kind , it has too stop now
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