Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories, and leave out unnecessary

details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the frustration of why and how

this ever happened. However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not

be for you. Listener, discretion is advised.

August 2019, part near London, England. Video letters shown to the court would show this baby's

mother and her boyfriend, joking about Jacob's death while he played innocently in the same room.

However, they would later claim the 15-month-old had fallen out of his cot. What the medical examiner would

find would tell another story, one of systematic and long-term child abuse. But if this was the

case, why did child services close their files on Jacob shortly before his death? This is

Jacob's story. The messages that Jake Drummond sent to you included some which are chilling in their tone,

referring to the torture room in a context which can only have been a reference to Jacob's bedroom.

Jacob clearly did not like Jake Drummond, as was apparent from text messages between you.

Jacob Lennon was born May 2018 in London, England, to mother Louise Lennon.

Jacob had a big brother who was about two years older than him and was his best friend.

It is not clear who Jacob's father was. He's

never been named in the news media or any of the court documents. What is clear, that there was

some safeguarding concerns surrounding Jacob's father. And this would result in the family coming to

the attention of child services in December 2018.

Jacob was a part of a child protection plan under the category of emotional abuse.

This leads me to believe that potentially there was some domestic violence between the parents that the boys would have been witnessed to.

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