Review: Little Victim by Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington (2010, UK)

Little Victim is Harry Keeble’s second book with co-author Kris Hollington and goes into extended detail following on from Baby X, his first book which described his transfer from the London Metropolitan Police Drugs Squad into Child Protection. Being the second book, Keeble goes into detail on a handful of individual cases over the course…

Review: Without A Trace: Stolen (US, 2006)

The danger with taking real-life cases and turning them into drama as cop shows often do, is that you end up with empty preaching and pandering to voyeurism. Thankfully that’s not what happened with the season five opener of the now-cancelled Bruckheimer drama Without A Trace. This 2006/07 series opener which was missed in the…

Cutting Edge: Breaking A Female Paedophile Ring (2011, UK)

We already reviewed an older Cutting Edge show from its modern run. This newer film focuses on the most high-profile case of child abuse at a nursery in the UK from the last decade, and the other offenders that were in contact with each other by phone and Facebook. Wisely, this film has been released…

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Review: Silent Scream by Josh Cannon

One of my frequent notes about auto/biographies featuring child abuse is that they fail to go into relevant detail about the recovery process. Josh Cannon’s Silent Scream, which I read in hardback, sets this right by bookending the whole story with being shipped off to recovery, some in the UK, but at the beginning of…