Cleveland child abuse trial

Title

Cleveland child abuse trial

Genre

News report

TX Date

25 Jun 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:03:38

Description

Report on a court case relating to the Cleveland child abuse scandal, where 121 cases of suspected child sexual abuse were (possibly mis-) diagnosed by Dr Marietta Higgs and Dr Geoffrey Wyatt, paediatricians at the Middlesbrough General Hospital and children taken into care; press conference featuring Mike Bishop, social services; interview with solicitor, David Scarfield. Reporter not identified.

Contributors

Mike Bishop; David Scarfield

Keywords

Health services; Social services; Child abuse; Trials; Children in care; Parents; Sexual abuse; Teeside; Middlesbrough; Cleveland; Marietta Higgs; Geoffrey Wyatt; Middlesbrough General Hospital; Cleveland child abuse scandal (1987)

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