Morgan's post is shocking to me.  Was there no mention of the negligence of
those in charge of the detention center, in preventing this child from being
able to make his own Vitamin D by exposure to daylight, not to mention FRESH
AIR?  The mother is likely very deficient in Vitamin D in her own right.
Supplementing mother with iron will not help the baby, nor will
supplementing her with Vitamin D.  Is there no one to bring suit for the
negligence to her health and the health of other people involuntarily kept
from direct exposure to daylight?  

I think a French expert would have no trouble understanding why a person
would decline to eat anything in such circumstances except a food that came
as a package deal with some comfort, ie breastmilk.  But are UK authorities
so ignorant as to the needs of human beings that they expect a baby to
continue to thrive, incarcerated under such conditions with no hope of
trial, together with its mother?  Surely they are capable of the tiny flight
of fantasy required to see that replacing the mother with a bottle of
dangerous culture medium will improve nothing?  Do they get a break on their
budget if they reduce the number of children in custody by killing them with
diarrhea?

Perhaps a zoo director should give the detention center management a quick
course in how to prevent primates from killing their young in captivity
through neglect or outright abuse.  Perhaps the management could try to
envision their own grandchildren thriving in their custody.  I am serious.
No one would expect gorillas or orangutans to reproduce and successfully
rear functional young in circumstances like this.  Why should a human mother
be treated so much worse than a zoo animal?  That this mother has managed to
continue to nurture her baby at all is an astounding testimonial to her own
strength.  Again, I am shocked.  I thought the UK was part of the
*civilized* world.  

On that note I go nomail for a couple of weeks, on summer holiday!
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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