{"id":328045,"date":"2026-06-17T07:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328045"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:17:26","slug":"political-correctness-blamed-for-failure-to-stop-gay-couple-murdering-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328045","title":{"rendered":"Political Correctness Blamed for Failure to Stop Gay Couple Murdering Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Will Jones \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2026\/06\/16\/political-correctness-blamed-for-failure-to-stop-gay-couple-murdering-baby\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Daily Sceptic June 15, 2026<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Political correctness has been blamed for the failure of social workers to prevent a gay couple from murdering their adopted baby, with the child\u2019s grandmother and a senior social worker suggesting worries about homophobia clouded officials\u2019 judgement. The <em>Mail <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15902497\/The-eight-missed-chances-save-baby-Preston-evil-adoptive-fathers-did-political-correctness-play-role-failure-stop-them.html\">has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Officials missed a string of chances to save a baby sexually abused and murdered by the teacher adopting him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Serious questions are being asked about the scrutiny faced by Jamie Varley, 37, and his boyfriend, John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, after they were given little Preston Davey to look after.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Over a period of four months, the \u201cpure evil\u201d pair physically, psychologically and sexually assaulted the child under the noses of social workers. Varley was said to have treated Preston as his \u201cplaything\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">One senior social worker questioned whether officials had been manipulated by the middle-class couple \u2013 who both had professional jobs, were articulate and\u00a0lived a seemingly respectable lifestyle \u2013 or if they were blinded by political correctness and a desire to promote diversity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cQuestions need to be asked about whether these men were sufficiently challenged,\u201d the source said. \u201cSocial workers can find it difficult to confront same-sex adoptive parents due to a fear of being seen as politically incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Preston\u2019s birth grandmother, Debbie Davey, 66, suggested that worries about homophobia may have clouded the judgement of those supposed to be supervising his care as at least eight opportunities to protect him were missed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cSocial services might have been hesitant to take action when they saw Preston because they may have been accused of being homophobic,\u201d Davey said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t see through [Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley] and see what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A post-mortem examination found Preston, who was just 13 months old when he died, suffered more than 40 injuries, including 30 visible bruises and serious internal injuries to his throat and bottom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A jury took 13 hours to convict Varley \u2013 a textiles teacher, who was also a head of year and safeguarding lead at a comprehensive school \u2013 of murder, while McGowan-Fazakerley, an accounts manager for a finance firm, was at work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Varley, described during the harrowing trial as a \u201cdrama queen\u201d, fell to his knees and started dry retching in the dock at Preston Crown Court as the verdicts were returned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">McGowan-Fazakerley, who was found guilty of sexual assault, two counts of cruelty and allowing Preston\u2019s death, stared straight ahead and\u00a0remained emotionless. They will be sentenced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Worth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15902497\/The-eight-missed-chances-save-baby-Preston-evil-adoptive-fathers-did-political-correctness-play-role-failure-stop-them.html\">reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/donate\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Donate to the Daily Sceptic<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13-month-old Preston Davey died at the hands of his adoptive parents because woke ideology and fears of being labelled \u2018homophobic\u2019 blinded social workers to the danger he was in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":328047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328048,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328045\/revisions\/328048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/328047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}