Sex Offenders Should Tell Police About Pregnancies, Review Finds

Sex offenders should tell police about pregnancies, review finds

The finding comes after a review into the death by negligence of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon's baby daughter.

Sex offenders should tell police if partner is pregnant, Baby Victoria review urges

The results of a national safeguarding review into the death of Constance Marten andMark Gordon's baby have been published today

Constance Marten says social services gave ‘ultimatums’ not ‘true assistance’

Marten, who is serving a jail sentence over the death of her newborn baby Victoria, spoke to a safeguarding review. Constance Marten insisted she was “given ultimatums, rather than true assistance” by social services in the lead-up to her baby daughter’s death. Marten and her convicted rapist partner Mark Gordon are serving jail sentences after being convicted last year of killing their newborn while on the run. While Gordon did not respond to a…

Care failings behind runaway heiress Constance Marten’s baby tragedy laid bare

The mother – who was jailed for 14 years for the gross negligence manslaughter of her newborn daughter Victoria – concealed the pregnancy with her partner after her four other children were taken into care

Baby Victoria Safeguarding Review Urges Stronger Protection

The death of a baby is every parent’s worst nightmare. In the case of Baby Victoria, born in December 2022 and dying just weeks later in early 2023, that nightmare became a national reckoning. Her parents, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, concealed her birth and deliberately evaded statutory services. In 2025, both were convicted of gross negligence manslaughter, child cruelty, perverting the course of justice and concealing the birth of a chil…

Victoria Marten child safeguarding review – key recommendations - Rother Radio

Lessons can be learned from the “extreme case” of the death of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon’s baby, the chairman of a major safeguarding review said. A national review launched after the death of newborn Victoria Marten published its report on Thursday which set out recommendations for improving safeguarding of families and vulnerable children. Panel chairman Sir David Holmes said: “I think we have to acknowledge that the baby Marten case is…