Paediatrician attack / Kinderärztinüberfall
am 19.04.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
Vor einigen Jahren hat die berühmte Sun aufgerufen, gegen Pädophile vorzugehen. Leider spürte eine Kinderärztin (Englisch “paediatrician”) die Auswirkungen dieser Kampagne - die Geschichte wurde allerdings so oft erzählt, dass die Details unklar sind.
In connection with the recent removal of details of sex offenders from the Internet in the USA, I was trying to remember the story of the paediatrician whom Latin-challenged British persons persecuted. No wonder I couldn’t remember the story - it’s suffered the urban legend treatment. The BBC puts the record straight:
In August 2000, a female paediatrician consultant called Yvette Cloete was indeed labelled a “paedo” after a campaign by the News of the World to name and shame paedophiles in the community.
The incident took place in Newport, Gwent, not in Portsmouth (where there had been anti-paedophile protests after eight-year-old Sarah Payne was murdered) or London.
Dr Cloete returned from work at the Royal Gwent Hospital …
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