Baby X: Britain’s Child Abusers Brought to Justice

Състояние: Много добро
Забележка: Внимателно използвана, здрава и чиста книга - леко захабен външен вид.
Издателство: Pocket Books
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 200
Дебелина (мм): 16
Корици: Меки

'I tried not to, but I thought about the kid all day - on his back in intensive care, his jaw and nose broken. A quick phone call established the family had a history with social services, yet the kid had been taken off the child protection register just six days before he was murdered. Why was this happening?'

When super-tough cop Harry Keeble announced he was joining one of London's child protection teams, his colleagues were shocked Known as the 'Cardigan Squad', its officers were seen as glorified social workers dealing with domestics and frightened children. The reality was very different. Within a few months Keeble had fought machete-wielding thugs, rescued kids who had pit bulls chained to their cots and confronted the horrors of ritual abuse - all in his unrelenting war against child cruelty. Harry rescued dozens of kids: kids in crack houses, kids living in unimaginable filth and kids who had burned down their houses. Then there were the hostage situations, the lynch mobs and the almost impossible job of interviewing paedophiles.

Baby X pulls no punches in describing what life is like for some of the UK's most disadvantaged children. It is an unforgettable story of how some kids escaped their tormentors and why other cases, similar to that of Baby P's, ended in tragedy.