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The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds paediatricians Dr Jane Wynne and Dr Christopher Hobbs reported in the Lancet that they were seeing more children who were being buggered than battered. About 300 cases were corroborated. The children were young – two-thirds were pre-school children – and anal abuse was more common than vaginal penetration. They also noted that ‘boys and girls seem to be at simila
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― Stolen Voices: The People and Politics Behind the Campaign to Discredit Childhood Testimony
― Stolen Voices: The People and Politics Behind the Campaign to Discredit Childhood Testimony
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His son, Joseph, an organic chemist, had once announced that he'd decided early on against forensic toxicology: he could never have so many lives and deaths on his conscience. His father understood him. Because sometimes the dead did walk in Alexander Gettler's sleep, sometimes they rattled in the black chair of Sing Sing, and always, as he admitted in that last vulnerable interview, 'I keep asking myself, have I done everything right?
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― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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