UNITED KINGDOM
Guardian
Joseph Flaig, Reporter, covering the Epping Forest district. Call me on 07795 316 211 / @JosephFlaigEFG
A woman says she has been vindicated after a report confirmed that teenage girls were drugged and abused emotionally, physically and sexually at a “frightening, violent and unpredictable” home for girls.
The review, which found cruelty was sometimes “normalised” at the Church of England-run Kendall House between the 1960s and 1980s, was carried out after years of campaigning from Ongar mother-of-three Teresa Cooper, who was sent to the home aged 14.
Ms Cooper has suffered lasting health problems ever since but had no existing conditions or illnesses when she was placed in the home.
Dr Sue Proctor, who investigated abuse by Jimmy Savile at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, led the investigation and said that the truth would not have been revealed without Ms Cooper’s efforts.
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