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It is often said that Vietnam was the first television war. By the same token, Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the media. By the summer of 1987 Cleveland had become above all, a hot media story. The Daily Mail, for example, had seven reporters, plus its northern editor, based in Middlesbrough full time. Most other news papers and television news teams followed suit.
What were all the reporters looking for? Not children at risk.
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― Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Challenges and Dilemmas
― Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Challenges and Dilemmas
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But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis: 121 children from many different and largely unrelated families had been taken into the care of Cleveland County Council in the three short months of the summer of 1987. (p18)
The key to resolving the puzzle of Cleveland was the children. What had actually happened to them? Had they been abused - or had the pae
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― Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Challenges and Dilemmas
― Creative Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Challenges and Dilemmas
