Teresa Cooper
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Teresa Cooper is a Children's Rights campaigner against family injustice and child abuse. She is known for her eighteen year campaign on fighting for the justice and exposure of one of the child abuse against children in Local Authority and the Church of England's care and was one of the girls drugged, sexually abused and imprisoned in a small room for over 163 days while in care at the children's home, Kendall House, Kent, in the 1970s and 1980s.[1] She claims that the girls she was with in the home have now had children of their own with birth defects, and that these defects are a direct result of being drugged while at Kendall House.[2][3][4][5][6]
The story was first revisited in a national newspaper by Adrian Butler of the Sunday Mirror in January 2009 [7]
The story has been covered by Sally Gillen in 2007 reporter at Communitycare Magazine [8], Review by Liz Davies is senior lecturer children and families social work, London Metropolitan University [9] and blog by Sally Gillen [10]
Cooper first took her case to Parliament with her then MP Neil Gerrard in 1994[11]
Cooper has since received a "substantial out of court settlement" in regard to her civil case against the Church of England.[12][13]
Cooper was awarded a Human Rights award in 2009 for her dedication and research and exposure of child abuse scandal and for her continued support to many survivors of child abuse.[citation needed]
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[edit] Published works
- Pin Down (eBook) - One girl's harrowing and disturbing tale of institutionalised abuse, Orion Publishing Group[citation needed]
- Trust No One - The extraordinary story of how a young girl fought against the most evil of abuses in a care system that was meant to protect her to become the survivor she is today.[citation needed]
[edit] Further Information
- - www.no2abuse.com - Kendall house - The London programme 1980 and what the government did know. [14]
[edit] Parliament debate
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ "'Sedation link' to birth defects". BBC News. April 7, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7985912.stm. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ "CofE accused of care cover up". BBC News. May 22, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8062000/8062486.stm. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ Walker, Peter (April 7, 2009). "Inquiry calls grow over church care home sedation claims". London: Guardian News and Media Limited. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/apr/07/church-care-home-sedation. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ Booth, Jenny (April 7, 2009). "Drugging girls in care 'caused birth defects'". London: News International (The Times). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6050039.ece. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ Swaine, Jon (April 7, 2009). "Women sedated at care homes 'at risk of birth defects'". London: Telegraph Media Group Limited. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5117934/Women-sedated-at-care-homes-at-risk-of-birth-defects.html. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ "Diocesan home ‘drugged hundreds’". Church Times. April 9, 2009. http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=73094. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
- ^ [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/01/11/exclusive-girls-drugged-by-a-doctor-in-a-care-home-are-now-having-disabled-babies-115875-21032075/ - Exclusive: Girls drugged by a doctor in a care home are now having disabled babies
- ^ http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2007/12/07/106690/church-snubs-plea-to-probe-childrens-home-abuse-claims.htm Church snubs plea to probe children's home abuse claims
- ^ http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2007/08/23/105541/pin-down-one-girls-harrowing-and-disturbing-tale-of-institutionalised-abuse.htm Pin Down - One Girl's Harrowing and Disturbing Tale of Institutionalised Abuse
- ^ http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2009/04/09/111223/women-say-they-were-abused-in-childrens-home.htm Women say they were abused in children's home DCSF resists calls for inquiry into Kendall House case
- ^ http://www.no2abuse.com/index.php/articles/comments/times-article-1994-wandsworth-council-blocks-rape-inquiry/ Council blocks rape inquiry by Liz Lightfoot, legal affairs correspondant home news
- ^ When will the Church of England face up to the abuse I suffered in their care?
- ^ http://www.no2abuse.com/index.php/articles/comments/church-of-england-pays-out-after-child-sex-and-drug-abuse-scandal-press-rel/
- ^ http://www.no2abuse.com/index.php/articles/comments/kendall-house-the-london-programme-1980-lwt-what-the-government-did-know/ Transcript of 1980 documentary covering the drugging of children in care and Kendall House Gravesend Kent
