Parents’ spokesman on Cleveland child abuse cases

Title

Parents’ spokesman on Cleveland child abuse cases

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:00:43

Description

Tommy Harrison, spokesman for Teeside parents, on the scars children will have and feelings for the doctors involved in the Cleveland child abuse scandal, where 121 cases of suspected child sexual abuse were diagnosed by Dr Marietta Higgs and Dr Geoffrey Wyatt, paediatricians at the Middlesbrough General Hospital. Reporter not identified.

Contributors

Tommy Harrison

Keywords

Health services; Social services; Child abuse; 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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