Cleveland: Unspeakable Truths (TW: Child Sexual Abuse)

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"Cleveland: Unspeakable Truths" explores the lasting impact of 1987 Cleveland child abuse crisis in the UK in which hundreds of children were diagnosed by two pediatricians as having been sexually abused. Many, in fact the majority of the children were very young: most were prepubescent and in some cases so young (or developmentally delayed) as to be pre-verbal.

Directed and Produced by Tim Tate, this heartbreaking documentary highlights how the Cleveland child abuse crisis resulted in tensions, misunderstandings and stresses in the interface between the public and the child protection system, and persistent challenges of creating and sustaining a successful multidisciplinary approach to intervention and protection.

The key issues from Cleveland remain relevant to child protection today. This was not just the biggest sexual abuse case UK had then encountered but the very first involving multiple victims and multiple perpetrators. Others, Rochdale, Orkney and Broxtowe, would follow on in quick succession, but Cleveland was the first and it set the template.

So what was Cleveland really about? For filmmaker and journalist Tim Tate it is clear: it was about the plight of children–some just toddlers–who were abused and–briefly–rescued; then re-abused by the child protection system which could not bear the pressure from politicians and press. The truth of what happened to those children was too difficult to hear. Which is why the documentary is called Cleveland: Unspeakable Truths. WATCH & SHARE!

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