Preston Davey Trial #2

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I know it’s far from a matter to be laughed at- but Anne Geddes? I don’t recall any of her 90’s photoshoots in baths with naked babies. Or half conscious babies hanging from cot sides. And I certainly wouldn’t have had her calendar if she’d have been that way inclined.
Or exposed genitals, either. 😡
 
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So he took photos of preston with an erection to show his potential gf or bf when hes older.... sounds to me like preston was just a laughing stock to him, i am sure I would want to see a photo of my partner as a baby with an erection. That is just weird!
Asleep in sand pit, in the bath... what type of parenting is that in general! Like come on. This is things we have heard of imagine the stuff he hasnt filmed or took pics of.
 
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‘Defendant denies intentionally taking an indecent photo
"Were you intentionally trying to take an indecent photo of his genitals?" asked the KC.
"No, not deliberately," Mr Varley says.
Mr Varley explains Anne Geddes is a New York photographer who takes pictures of babies in towels or plant pots with lots of focus on the feet. He says growing up there were a lot of her photos around the house and he tried to take that style of photos when he had his own child.’

What the actual f???? Why would anyone have photos like that everywhere? Random photos of babies on the wall next to photos of Nan on holiday or paintings of a Spanish harbour or whatever? Am I an artless phillistine or is that really weird? Also if true it certainly had an interesting effect on the young mind of this cretin.
Yeah, this is bizarre. Both the idea of Anne Geddes art being all over his childhood home (not impossible I guess, but unlikely) but also the idea that this photo - Preston asleep in the bath with a pillow and towel, moved aside to show his genitals - resembles an Anne Geddes shot in any way.

He’s working hard to make these lies look plausible though, I’ll give him that.
 
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"Mr Johnson asks about messages from June 4 in which Mr Varley told his mother Preston had cried all morning and been ‘a nightmare’ as he ‘refuses to sleep’.

He tells the court Preston would trick them, he would go in his cot and as soon as they walked out of the room he was ‘a ray of sunshine’."

BIB - I'm not sure this is in his defence as he thinks it is.
 
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Who leaves a child napping in a sandpit with face in the sand…. Nobody
Cant wait for the prosecution to tear into him
Same with the empty bath. It seems they’ve just left him where he lay rather than put safety and comfort first to move him somewhere better at the risk of waking him. It’s very upsetting.
 
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So he took photos of preston with an erection to show his potential gf or bf when hes older.... sounds to me like preston was just a laughing stock to him, i am sure I would want to see a photo of my partner as a baby with an erection. That is just weird!
NO ONE takes photos of their child’s genitals to have a laugh about when they’re adults. Maybe a photo of a bare bum in the garden, or a tantrum on a trip to the beach, but not an erection 🤢

He’s trying really hard to normalise unjustifiable behaviour.
 
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He tells the court Preston would trick them, he would go in his cot and as soon as they walked out of the room he was ‘a ray of sunshine’."
This stood out to me in the wording, making a baby sound manipulative in their eyes. He’s giving himself away without realising it.
 
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Or exposed genitals, either. 😡
I'm also sure - from my memories of Anne Geddes - that most of her photos of babies are covered up with only their faces showing. Didn't she do babies in flowerpots, or asleep but wrapped up like a caterpillar/butterfly/ladybird, faces being the middle of sunflowers, etc?
 
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This is the defence questioning now. The prosecution will then question him and also JMFs barrister. It's easy now for him as his barrister is trying to show him in a favourable light. Even under non-hostile questioning he is struggling to come up with believable answers.

Anne Geddes did very posed pics of babies. Mostly in flower pots or costumes but some were naked babies asleep but it was the babies' bums on show. Their genitals were always hidden or had a strategic flower/leaf etc in front of them. None of them were babies in a towel in a bath tub.

Sandra Cooper is a brilliant human being. To hear the court reporting and then volunteering to go to court to make sure her voice is heard to get justice for Preston is a sign of a woman who really cared about that little boy. She showed more love and respect for him in life and death than JV and JMF could ever show.
 
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I didn't even think little babies could get erections... Can't believe I've even typed that it's so wrong
 
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I can actually believe that the adoption agency didn’t provide baby care classes. Their job is to assess suitability as adoptive parents, and go over any particular issues that may arise due to the baby being removed at birth (attachment issues, potential drug and alcohol exposure, therapeutic parenting techniques, and so on).

Adoption agencies don’t provide basic baby care classes any more than the NHS does to expectant couples. The assumption is you either know, from growing up around babies, or you figure it out yourself as you go.

Framing it as “the foster mum told us what to do” is a clear attempt to frame all their failures around being advised badly by her.
Even if they did take advice and guidance from the foster mum, I'd bet my house that she never said "oh and he loves being physically, emotionally and sexually abused", and if you need to be told not to do these things to a baby, you are definitely not suitable to adopt a child and never will be
 
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I'm also sure - from my memories of Anne Geddes - that most of her photos of babies are covered up with only their faces showing. Didn't she do babies in flowerpots, or asleep but wrapped up like a caterpillar/butterfly/ladybird, faces being the middle of sunflowers, etc?
Exactly, swaddled or dressed up and posed and probably quite content while sleeping. To be compared to this level of evil is quite something.
 
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And she apparently also said "she leaves the nappy off and calls it Free Willy time because she thinks it's really good for them to get to know their own bodies". What a lying freak he is.
 
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Just in that he appears to be staying calm and giving 'reasonable' explanations for things. Even at times admitting at times he made the wrong judgement
Don’t worry, this is his defence counsel cherry picking “relatable” moments and gently walking him through his well rehearsed lies. I’m sure there will be some unraveling once the cross examination starts. I’m hoping for nothing less than excoriation.
 
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What the actual duck? VR training?

Throwing the foster carer under the bus again, the nasty pig b. I KNEW it wouldn’t take him long to bring her up.
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This isn't the defence he thinks it is since it's been made quite clear that this isn't simply a case of negligence or endangerment anymore, but that there was evidence of sexual abuse. You can't plead ignorance about not realising you couldn't SA an infant - especially if you're 'child protection trained' as JV was very clear about at the hospital after Preston passed away. "I wasn't taught how to look after a baby!" could maybe be used a defence for why he thought it was okay to leave a baby in the water unsupervised - but the evidence has been quite clear that version of events isn't what actually happened and it's not how Preston died.

Also secondly, there's already proof they WERE shouting at him to startle him, etc. So clearly whatever training they did get, they didn't care enough about it either. He's hopefully just shooting himself in the foot when the time comes for the cross-examination
 
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I'm also sure - from my memories of Anne Geddes - that most of her photos of babies are covered up with only their faces showing. Didn't she do babies in flowerpots, or asleep but wrapped up like a caterpillar/butterfly/ladybird, faces being the middle of sunflowers, etc?
That's the stuff.


Anne Geddes: World's most famous baby ...



ANNE GEDDES


This was as much nudity as you got. They were a bit twee for my taste, but I know they were very popular.
 
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And she apparently also said "she leaves the nappy off and calls it Free Willy time because she thinks it's really good for them to get to know their own bodies". What a lying freak he is.
All his talk and photography of Preston’s genitals yet he wants us to believe the experienced foster mum came up with the phrase ‘free willy time’. It’d be nappy free time or skin breathing time, why would anyone even mention willies at all as it’s NOT the focus most normal people would have when a baby’s nappy was off.
 
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All his talk and photography of Preston’s genitals yet he wants us to believe the experienced foster mum came up with the phrase ‘free willy time’. It’d be nappy free time or skin breathing time, why would anyone even mention willies at all as it’s NOT the focus most normal people would have when a baby’s nappy was off.
And generally nappy free time is done before a bath so if they do get dirty then they can get clean in the bath.
 
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Did he really say at the start of proceedings that the adoption vetting process was very enjoyable and he’d recommend it to anyone? What planet is he on to think that’s an appropriate thing to say after what’s happened? He’s a deluded narcissist or something, I don’t even know anymore.
 
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