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.
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.
Is
this doctor responsible for parents being falsely branded as child
abusers? [ 29
October 2007 ]
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Dr Southall, has been praised as a pioneer by colleagues, while
vilified as arrogant and dangerous by patients [ He looks an
arrogant rogue and scruffy to boot- Editor ]. He has also been in trouble over
remarks he made concerning the case of Sally Clark, the mother who was
given two life sentences for the murder of her two children before
being released after medical evidence emerged to prove she was
innocent.....
The
suspicion is that justice may have been perverted by the paediatrician
because vital evidence in the files — which established that
the children he diagnosed as victims of parental abuse had never been
harmed but were, in fact, genuinely sick — was deliberately
hidden from criminal court judges [ The legal term is perverting the course
of justice - Editor ].
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Marietta Higgs tried it on and had 121 children stolen from their
parents. See
The
women who went through an ordeal beyond belief. She
may well be unrepentant to this day. Other medics backed her on a basis
of deep ignorance. See Stuart
Bell - the relevant MP and very good. Professor Sir Roy
Meadow was very dangerous too.
