Child born with lifelong damage after excessive drinking by mother is not entitled to criminal injuries compensation, court rules.

“The time at which harm, acknowledged in this case to amount to grievous bodily harm, occurred was whilst [the child] was in the womb,” he said in his judgment. “At that stage the the child did not have legal personality so as to constitute ‘any other person’.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/dec/04/judge-rules-mother-not-guilty-of-for-drinking-while-pregnant

What do we think about this then?