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Child protection
Working together to protect children: who should be working with whom?
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Professor SirAlan Craft
Newcastle University, SCMS (Child Health), Sir James Spence Institute, RVI, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK; a.w.craft@ncl.ac.uk
Accepted 12 February 2007
Paediatricians and others involved in the area of child protection must work together with other professionals
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Children have always been subjected to abuse and it is possible to read about the dreadful, by today’s standards, things which befell them throughout history. Western society changed its attitude during the 19th century partly prompted by the graphic descriptions of Charles Dickens and other great writers of the day. Yet little was done about abuse of children until the famous case of Mary Ellen Wilson in New York in the 1860s. Mary Ellen was persistently beaten and abused by her adoptive parents. Although the abuse was widely known about amongst the local community, it was impossible to get the police to prosecute the parents, as the rights of parents to chastise their child were sacrosanct. There were no laws to protect children from such abuse but eventually the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were persuaded to use the animal protection laws on the grounds
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