UNITED KINGDOM
Gravesend Reporter
September 2013
Joshua Fowler
MP Eric Pickles was caught on tape telling a survivor of alleged child abuse at a Gravesend care home to “adjust your medication” last month.
His comments can be heard in a recorded confrontation with constituent Teresa Cooper, who is one of at least six women who say they were drugged at Kendall House, in Pelham Road, during the late 1970s and whose children now have genetic defects.
Upon meeting the communities and local government minister at a wildlife event in Ongar, Essex, Ms Cooper says: “Nothing has changed on the Kendall House abuse. Only you have ignored it. You have ignored it.”
Mr Pickles then retorts: “just, just, adjust your medication.”
Kendal House, now flats, caused a storm when a 1980 documentary showed the level of drugs being prescribed by Dr Marenthiran Perinpanayagam.
Girls in his care were given pills designed for schizophrenics, psychotics and Parkinson’s sufferers without being diagnosed with any of those conditions.
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