Doctor Camille De San
Lorenzo
Is a paediatrician who diagnosed dozens of children as
victims of
sexual abuse. Two nursery nurses alleged to be guilty as a result. The
High Court gave her a life time ban on giving evidence in child abuse
cases. While the General Medical Council took a more
nonchalant position, saying merely that some of her work was
"inappropriate, irresponsible and unprofessional". A libel Judge found
that the woman was "unbalanced, obsessive and lacking in
judgment".
Would you believe that she is still a senior lecturer and an honorary
consultant at the University of Newcastle, with clinical duties at
the Royal Victoria Infirmary? Think twice before you take a
child
there. See page 28 of Private Eye 1198 for more and better
details.
Roy
Meadow
Professor
Sir Samuel Roy Meadow (born 1933)
is a British paediatrician who rose to
initial fame for his 1977 academic paper on the
now controversial Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP)
and his crusade against parents who willfully harm or kill their
children. He was knighted for these works. He endorsed the dictum that “one
sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is
murder, until proved otherwise“ in his book ABC of
Child Abuse
and this became known as Meadow's Law and at one time was widely
adopted by social workers and child protection agency in
Britain.
He appeared as an expert witness, in which his
testimony
played a crucial part in wrongful conviction for murder. The General
Medical (GMC) struck off Meadow after he was
found to have offered “erroneous” and
“misleading” evidence in the Sally
Clark case. Clark was a
lawyer wrongly convicted in 1999 of the murder of her two baby
sons, largely on the basis of Meadow's
evidence; her conviction was quashed in 2003
after she had spent three years in jail. Sally Clark died in
2007 from alcohol poisoning, apparently never having recovered from her
wrongful imprisonment.
I dare say that Meadow would still claim that he
was right. He fouled UP by his ignorance of elementary statistics and
by
assuming that sudden cot deaths are independent variables. The more
fundamental error was his arrogance based on making to the top of the
profession.
Marietta
Higgs and the Cleveland child abuse scandal
Marietta Higgs was a paediatrician who had 121 children
stolen from their parents using the powere of the courts and her very
own test which had not been authenticated. Higgs claims that she
is not guilty and that there is far more abuse going on. She got away
with it and still operational in Gillingham in Kent.