The Archie Battersbee case #2

[Cornbread2]

At this point I wish the doctors would just say ‘alright Hollie, obviously we’ve been mistreating your very much alive son, so we’re going to let your army come in and sort it out.’ Cue the arrival of an insane mob with a group IQ of 27 desecrating the corpse of a young boy, who should’ve been peacefully laid to rest months ago, with honey, coloured lights, soil, essential oil and chocolate cake. Doctors really are saints because if I was in their position I would have refused to work on this case on the grounds that I can’t perform necromancy.

Also the whole ‘Archie didn’t kill himself’ route seems insane but is a sadly common sentiment of families who have had someone kill themselves, especially someone young. It reminds me of the desperately sad death of CBBC child actress Mya-Lecia Naylor. She hung herself in the garage but it was finally ruled as ‘death by misadventure’ because the parents insisted she would never kill herself. For parents especially, it’s nicer to believe that your happy child died in a tragic accident, rather than your child was so horrifically depressed they wanted to end their life and succeeded.

 

[FoxyBingo]

She says on the new video that the delay in announcing the appeal decision was intentional to make the trolls squirm a little longer. She's made this all about everyone but Archie. It's disgusting.

Everyone and anything except Archie. As if she is posing like that next to his poor skinny frame. It's absolutely sickening.

If this was really about Archie, why would you care what strangers think?

Problem is these days, the word "troll" is thrown about too loosely and casually. If you have a difference of opinion, you are immediately classed as a troll.

 

[Cornbread2]

Why Hollie's friends and family allowed her to communicate with those lunatics on Facebook all day every day is beyond me. The child is obviously dead, everyone can see that, however obviously Hollie is going through stage 10 denial and is teetering on the edge of a massive mental breakdown when this is all over. Losing a child creates enough mental trauma as it is. Now imagine your child dies, their corpse gets taken to hospital and is hooked up to machines to essentially keep them warm and 'alive' looking while a bunch of irresponsible religous nutbags leave comment after comment on your Facebook about how your child is still alive and the evil doctors tending to their internally rotting corpse are lying to you. These people online cant actually believe that Archie is going to suddenly jump up out of bed one day like grandpa Joe. They just want a space to flaunt how much of a Christian they are and how much they believe in 'the power of the lord.' I cant believe she was able to sit and broadcast her sons dead body on Facebook multiple times a day without her account being suspended. I dread seeing the fallout when he is taken off life support and the real grief sets in. Obviously medical advancement is a wonderful thing, but when it allows people to sit in a sort of death purgatory and cause so much anguish, you have to ask yourself when trying to cheat death becomes immoral for those unwillingly subjected to futile medical treatment.

 

[kittenattack]

And the 'army' will no doubt move to the next 'cause' when poor Archie's body is finally allowed to be disconnected from the machines.

They're ghouls. The type of person who used to sit at the foot of the guillotine and watch criminals being beheaded or shouting, en masse, for innocent women to be burned as witches. Pack mentality. They're both repelled, yet fascinated, by death and this is the closest thing they can get to experiencing the sting of real human emotions in the midst of tragedy.

 

[Anasnake]

Her comments are surely libellous ??

 

[ohannie]

Some beautiful images being created by the Army this weekend

 

[MidnightAura]

I’m sorry but she’s a sick bastard. Who grins like a Cheshire Cat over their son lying in a ventilator? Who deliberately thinks “ooh hang on I’ll keep the news quiet for a bit longer t get attention off people who call out my bullshit”

This isn’t about Archie anymore. Poor child.

 

[mamabear011]

Couldn’t agree more with this statement. Who in their right mind would want this for their child?
The only thing that’s disgraceful is that she’s dragging this out into the public eye herself, she’s posting vulgar pictures of her child in a very vulnerable state and thinking it’s okay, doing interviews when she should be spending precious time with her child.
I’ve no right to tell anyone how to grieve and this is merely my opinion but he isn’t coming back and I think she knows that.
she needs to let go and think of her son, not herself anymore. He needs dignity not this.

 

[grampositive]

It just makes me uncomfortable that from some people (not from this thread) there's this absolute denial that he could've committed suicide because he was a happy successful boy and Hollie was a great mum. And that a lot of their arguments about fighting for his right to stay on a ventilator are because it must have been a tragic accident - it shouldn't make a jot of difference if it was self inflicted but I guess CC might not see it that way..

Children who appear happy can struggle with their mental health, often it doesn't matter how amazing the family enviroment is too.

I wish the army would put their considerable efforts into raising awareness of child suicide, and direct all this outrage into our CAMH service which is not fit for purpose.

 

[bubbadabut]

If Archie was one of my patients I'd make sure Id booked up a lot of annual leave and try to avoid his mother. You just know she treats the staff like shit I hope the staff receive counselling as I can't imagine being expected to turn, wash , give injections and feeds to a corpse. It's bloody barbaric.

He's also had blood transfusions. When I signed up for that I never expected my Type O+ to be pumped into a dead person.

 

[Weeder]

Also the people randomly putting up pictures of their kids because their kids want to "say hi to Archie." I would not expose my child to some of those oddballs.

It feels tactless to me. Imagine putting a pic of your child waving and smiling on a dying kids FB page. Isn't that a bit like saying 'Look , here's my live one'?

 

[Bubblepink]

Deflect, deflect, deflect. My job involves helping people from low socio-economic backgrounds, like Hollie and the majority of the "army". Nothing is ever their fault. It's always the school's fault, the teacher's fault, the doctor's fault, the council's fault, the police's fault, the social worker's fault, the school nurse's fault, the government's fault. They refuse to take any responsibility for their actions, and lash out at anyone who offers constructive advice. It's no coincidence that most of these cases seem to involve people from that kind of background.

^This is absolutely spot on.
It says in that judges report about how Archie was excluded from school. Whilst is doesn’t go into detail it explains how ‘furious’ she was with with school/local authority. Because of course, it’s always someone else’s fault.

 

[JerricaBenton]

The latest - they've put lemons on his feet for "nutrient's"

 

[sheleg]

Why on Earth are people sending Archie gifts to the hospital? It’s not like the staff don’t have anything better to do Of course.

Im not being funny, but I would think this was very creepy if I saw this!

“I’m not very ofey”

Do they mean… “au fait”?

Absolute illiterates.

 

[HoGi]

To a certain extent I can understand not wanting to say goodbye to him and the finality of it. I cannot, cannot, cannot understand how she thinks he will wake up.

Not only wake up but a chance of rehabilitation

 

[MidnightAura]

Glenn Smith
Good luck Hollie am sure you've got the hang of it by now and you can tell the appeal court judges that my legal and medical specialist reports go back to 1994 and in1997 I had DSS Commissionaires-who are appointed by HM The Queen on the advice of The Lord Chancellor- Law reports help me win my appeal and it's still helping people win their appeals today and will continue into the future-and iv just got my benefits Commissionaires report now in 2022 which explains changes in the law that courts must take note of to help disabled people like Archie live a full and rewarding life-God bless Glenn.

Absolutely HATE this argument started by Hollie that Archie is being discriminated against as a disabled person. Shocking IMO considering the very real discrimination people with disabilities face daily.

"Full and rewarding life" my arse.

I have a disability but Ffs Archie doesn’t have one. He’s dead. Bit of a difference. I hate how even if there was a hope of recovery they are already planning on playing the discrimination card.

 

[tigerlilly_xx]

She’s proven she’s loved being in the media before, with several newspaper appearances over the years also.
That’s not normal behaviour.

I think he was a very unhappy child, and couldn’t deal with it anymore.
horrid to say, but I wish she had found him 10/15 mins later, he would already be buried/cremated with extreme dignity, and the media circus, the grief tourists wouldn’t even be a thing. He wouldn’t have awful crap starting to fill up his lungs. It’s disgusting that this is being so dragged out, it’s disgusting that she’s allowing him to rot.

I got banned from the army Facebook page a few weeks ago, by pointing out how vile it was to have a money teddy, tied to a lamppost by a string around its neck.

 

[Boring Monday]

Yes, put Nutella into his mouth and upset the carefully titrated and curated diabetes and enzymes. What could possibly go wrong

 

[Lalalemon]

I'm sorry, but the barmy army have officially gone too far now.
Emailing clinics around the world about Archie to try and get him moved, but spouting absolute lies in the emails.

Also I read on another forum that Archie has been receiving numerous blood transfusions, I feel like this is absolutely ridiculous. Blood products are scarce enough without wasting them, pumping them into an already dead body!

 

[bubbadabut]

She's your regular feral chav. She's probably paid more attention to Archie in the state he's in now than when he was alive.