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New ordeal for Shannon's mother as three of her children are taken into care
By PAUL SIMS and JAMES TOZER - More by this author »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=556648&in_page_id=1770

The mother of Shannon Matthews was said to be distraught last night after it emerged that three of her other children are being looked after by social services.

Karen Matthews, 32, who has seven children by five different fathers, was believed to be staying in a "safe house" after the disclosure.


"She's absolutely devastated," a friend said yesterday.


"She lost Shannon for 24 days and now this. She's in pieces and I don't think she can cope with much more."

The dramatic development came as Miss Matthews's 22-year-old boyfriend, Craig Meehan, appeared in court accused of possessing 130 indecent images of children.

The supermarket fishmonger was yesterday remanded behind bars for "his own protection" at the end of an 11-minute court hearing, having declined to make a bail application.


Friends of Miss Matthews said they believed she had ended her relationship with Meehan. Detectives found the images after seizing two computers from the home Meehan shared with Shannon and her mother in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, on February 20, the court heard.

Ordeal: Shannon, nine. Mother Karen Matthews is said to be 'devastated' at the latest developments


The pictures are not believed to be of Shannon or her siblings.


Meehan, who has a two-year-old daughter from his relationship with Miss Matthews, is charged with ten specimen counts relating to possession of child pornography and one all-encompassing charge.


Meehan's uncle, Michael Donovan, 39, has been charged with the kidnap and false imprisonment of Shannon, who vanished on February 19 following a school swimming trip.


The nine-year-old was rescued 24 days later on March 14 from the base of a divan bed in Donovan's dingy flat, less than a mile from her home.


Although an emergency protection order on Shannon has been lifted, she has still not been allowed home, with child protection authorities carefully monitoring her care following her ordeal.

She is thought to have been reunited with her mother during a three-hour meeting on Wednesday.


Meehan's arrest has, however, severely dented any hopes of Shannon returning home.


Close friends leapt to Miss Matthews's defence yesterday.


Petra Jamieson, a 30-year- old mother of four, said: "Karen has said she no longer wants to be a part of Craig's life.


"She hasn't told him face to face but I think he will assume anyway. We are all sticking by her and want people to know that they shouldn't take their anger out on Karen.


"She had absolutely no idea and no one should blame her."


Miss Matthews's neighbour, Peter Brown, 34, said: "The mood has changed big time over the last day or so. It's really taken a turn for the worse.

"I don't think we'll be seeing Craig round here for some time. As we understand it Karen is now in a safe house.


"The children have had nowhere else to go so they are being looked after elsewhere. It's really awful."


Miss Matthews was not at the Dewsbury Magistrates Court hearing, where Meehan spoke only to confirm his name, age and address.


Handcuffed to a security guard, he wore a Manchester United football shirt and looked pale and drawn as he sat down in the dock.


Meehan will reappear in court on April 11.

• Detectives are still questioning Shannon about what happened during the 24 days she was missing, it emerged yesterday.


Police have been interviewing the nine-year-old in 15-minute bursts because of her age and the sensitive nature of the questions.


The interviews are conducted in a special suite designed to look like a classroom in an attempt to coax details from her and detectives expect the process to continue for weeks.

Police rescued Shannon from a flat belonging to her stepfather Craig Meehan's uncle, Michael Donovan, in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, on March 14.


Computer programmer Donovan, 39, is due to stand trial in November on charges of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

I have today been told that two women have now been arrested a woman of 25 and a woman in her 40's.

There is definitely something very wrong with this case.

You know what, Fuck Karen Matthews.
Seven children with five different fathers by the age of 32?! Now she's in a "safe house" and her kids are in foster care? Oh, and she was living in her mothers house with pedophile boyfriend?
I have no sympathy for this woman, none whatsoever. I hope they take ALL her children away AND sterilize her, because she's had enough kids...and obviously doesn't have the skills to A. choose a suitable mate, B. live on her own or C. stop breeding for half a second.

"It truly is the one commonality that every designation of humans you can think of has, there's at least one asshole."
--Me

The article is not written very well, but I don't think this moo and the sicko BF was living with her mom. Shannon, the nine-year-old is one of the kids who the story said was living with her mom (Karen) and sicko BF. The uncle of sicko kidnapped Shannon. This is so fucked on so many levels.

The mother of Shannon Matthews has been arrested over the alleged kidnap of her daughter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=557643&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Karen Matthews, 32, was being held on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. Her arrest is likely to fuel speculation that Shannon was kidnapped as part of a stunt to obtain money from the media

Meehan's mother Alice, 49, and sister, Amanda Hyett, 25, were arrested on Friday in connection with Shannon's disappearance and have been bailed until next month pending further enquiries. (Meehan is the step father of shannon, meehans UNCLE is the one who had her in his house)

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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

Gee, I didn't see the family involvement coming like a Mac truck. I guess by "It's different when it's your own" they mean "it's much, much easier to do crap to your own children".
It is kind of nice to know that the cops are a little hipper to that fact than they used to be.

"It truly is the one commonality that every designation of humans you can think of has, there's at least one asshole."
--Me

it gets even worse, but parents are so wonderful????????

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3701834.ece

Michael Donovan, 39, the uncle of Ms Matthews’s boyfriend, Craig Meehan, has been charged with Shannon’s kidnapping and false imprisonment.

The girl’s mother has now confessed, according to the source, that she had known that he was holding her daughter. She is also said to have admitted that, before Shannon’s disappearance, she had been planning to end her relationship with 22-year-old Mr Meehan and had intended to move in with Mr Donovan

Police have been told that family members made contact with supporters of the Madeleine McCann appeal and requested a large cash donation to assist them in their search for Shannon.

Officers are also looking into suggestions that the inspiration for a fake kidnapping may have been provided by an episode of the popular Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless, which was broadcast a few weeks before Shannon was reported missing.

In the show, about a large, dysfunctional family living on an impoverished council estate, a mock abduction of the youngest member of the family, Liam, is staged by his elder sister, who uses an intermediary to demand £500,000 for his safe return.

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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

What a piece of trash.

I wish somebody would take her and her sprogs out of the gene pool. You make stupid choices, you should pay for them, especially if your stupidity ends up hurting somebody else.

Karen Matthews, mother of missing Shannon Matthews, has agreed to be sterilised whilst on remand in Yorkshire. It is believed that Miss Matthews has given birth to at least 14 children in her lifetime, five of which are currently in the care of social services. It has not been revealed where the other children are.

Police sources today stated that Miss Matthews had planned to "build up her family again" if she loses custody of her current five children. It was also thought that Miss Matthews may have children hidden in various locations over the U.K with the same purpose in mind.

Miss Matthews has refused to reveal the location of several of her children, all thought to have been fathered by different men. She is thought to be giving birth in "batches" designed to maximise her child benefits, housing benefits and tax refunds.

Craig Meehan, Karen Matthews current partner, has not been offered a vasectomy as he has revealed that he set fire to his own genitals and doused them in acid after waking up next to Miss Matthews on their first date.

It is believed that he will probably be castrated by his neighbours shortly, anyway.