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Her books include ''Wigan Pier Revisited'' (winner of the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize); films include ''Listen to the Children'', a documentary about the watershed ] ] case; and ''Dangerous Places'', ''Diana Princess of Wales - How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy''. Her books include ''Wigan Pier Revisited'' (winner of the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize); films include ''Listen to the Children'', a documentary about the watershed ] ] case; and ''Dangerous Places'', ''Diana Princess of Wales - How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy''.

==Child Abuse controversy==

In ''Marxism Today'', Campbell protested that 'anyone who respects children's accounts of child abuse aren't taken seriously' <ref>Marxism Today, November 1990 http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/collections/mt/pdf/90_11_20.pdf</ref>.The county council's report into the Nottinghamshire child abuse case she referred to listed the following children's accounts:

* babies being cut out of the tummies of the female members of the family
* babies being taken from next door and from across the road and having their heads bashed on the floor babies being thrown on the bonfire
* a naughty policeman killing babies
* the family having dead babies hung around their necks
* a monster getting our babies
* babies being stabbed in a balloon and cooked in the oven
* a lady and little girl being shot, chopped up and put in the river in a bin (or variant - buried by the river)
* Jesus being chopped up and eaten off a silver pad
* a swimming pool with crocodiles, sharks and dragon that kill the children
* a member of the family putting on a cloak and flying, the children being turned into frogs by the witches <ref>http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dlheb/jetrepor2.htm</ref>


==External links== ==External links==

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Beatrix Campbell is a British campaigning writer and journalist, focusing on politics, class and gender. She is a lesbian and a feminist.

Her books include Wigan Pier Revisited (winner of the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize); films include Listen to the Children, a documentary about the watershed Nottingham child abuse case; and Dangerous Places, Diana Princess of Wales - How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy.

Child Abuse controversy

In Marxism Today, Campbell protested that 'anyone who respects children's accounts of child abuse aren't taken seriously' .The county council's report into the Nottinghamshire child abuse case she referred to listed the following children's accounts:

  • babies being cut out of the tummies of the female members of the family
  • babies being taken from next door and from across the road and having their heads bashed on the floor babies being thrown on the bonfire
  • a naughty policeman killing babies
  • the family having dead babies hung around their necks
  • a monster getting our babies
  • babies being stabbed in a balloon and cooked in the oven
  • a lady and little girl being shot, chopped up and put in the river in a bin (or variant - buried by the river)
  • Jesus being chopped up and eaten off a silver pad
  • a swimming pool with crocodiles, sharks and dragon that kill the children
  • a member of the family putting on a cloak and flying, the children being turned into frogs by the witches

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  1. Marxism Today, November 1990 http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/collections/mt/pdf/90_11_20.pdf
  2. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dlheb/jetrepor2.htm
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