Marietta Higgs

The Wiki goes easy on Higgs, in fact it doesn't even write her up. The Daily Mail does not. Nor does The Times. Private Eye put the boot in. The Wiki is pretty reliable until the agenda cuts in. This is just such a case. Destroying the family is part of the Culture War by Zionist rogues. Their objective is Cultural Genocide.

The larger point to take here is that experts are sometimes loud mouthed, arrogant dangerous fools who are WRONG! Experts - The Day of Reckoning gives us a number of them.

Experts - The Day of Reckoning
See below.

 

The child abuse myths unravel - Times Online
"1 Feb 2004 ... He was working for Cleveland social services when scores of children were taken into care on the say-so of Marietta Higgs, a paediatrician ..."
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article1009741.ece

The perpetrator.

 

Social Workers Are Malicious Fools
Perhaps they allege that they mean well. Perhaps they do.

 

The Women Who Went Through An Ordeal Beyond Belief - ex Mail
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Pretty and fashionably dressed, the two young sisters look the very embodiment of confident modern womanhood. In fact, Lindsey and Paula's lives have been almost too shocking to comprehend.

For these are the two girls who were at the centre of the Cleveland child abuse controversy that rocked Britain exactly 20 years ago.

Raised by a loving family, they were the first victims of the 1987 scandal when hundreds of parents in the North-East of England were wrongly accused of the worst crime imaginable: molesting their own children Lindsey and Paula Wise are speaking out today for the first time.

They want the world to know exactly what happened to them on the say-so of a maverick paediatrician called Marietta Higgs and other child doctors in the hope that their story will stop such a travesty ever being repeated.

The girls, now 23 and 22, were taken from their devoted parents, Barry and Linda Wise, and put in foster homes.

They escaped adoption by a whisker. They spent their youngest years in the hands of the state instead of their family.

Like the 119 other children ensnared in what was Britain's first and biggest abuse scandal, they were interrogated by social workers and endured a battery of the most intimate examinations by doctors.

As a toddler Lindsey was photographed or examined for signs of sexual abuse 17 times, according to her own medical records. In fact, it may have been many more - she will never know. For, mysteriously, the official files on the Cleveland debacle, provoked by Dr. Higgs's blind faith in an unproven medical technique to prove child abuse, have since been destroyed.

Now Lindsey and Paula Wise plan to take legal action against those they allege ruined their young lives. This week they asked police in Middleborough, where they both live with their parents in a neat terraced house, to investigate their cases.

They acted after the admission on Monday by the Government's Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, that mistakes were made in Cleveland.

Sir Liam, coincidentally the medical officer in charge of the Northern Regional Health Authority covering the area in 1987, confirmed that the medical technique used by Dr Higgs and her acolytes was unreliable.

By looking at and probing a child's bottom, Dr Higgs believed she could see if there was Reflex Anal Dilatation - or RAD.

She insisted that the existence of RAD - originally devised to detect homosexual abuse -showed if a child had been interfered with. Today it is known that RAD can appear in any boy or girl quite normally and spontaneously.

After a long fight through the courts, 80 per cent of children taken in Cleveland were returned to their innocent parents. Yet the damage was done. Many were traumatised. For years afterwards, they would hide if there was a knock on the door.

As Lindsey, now training as a nurse in Middleborough, told the Mail: "I believe I was a guinea pig of the doctors. I lost my babyhood and nearly my family. The state kidnapped me at two years old and I did not go home again until I was four.

"My mother and father were accused of an unspeakable offence. It has almost destroyed their lives. My father was never strong enough to work again. My mother can never forget the trauma of nearly losing her children.

"Now I want answers. I want an apology. I will not be silenced."

Paula, the manager of a hairdressing salon, added: "We were abused by the very people - the doctors and social workers - there to protect children. We were put up for adoption. Now we want to know why."

The story of Lindsey and Paula Wise began innocently enough exactly a year before the Cleveland crisis gained national notoriety.

On July 9, 1986, their mother noticed bruises on Lindsey's arms when she came back from the local play school. No one realised at the time, but they had been caused by Lindsey getting scratched as she picked bilberries from bushes.

Linda recalls: "I mentioned the mysterious bruises to our health visitor, then our GP, and, astonishingly, we found ourselves being accused of harming our own children. The whole family were driven by social workers to Middleborough General Hospital."

The clock was ticking. At the hospital, a local social worker called Carol Towers presented Barry and Linda with a "place of safety order" (which meant legally, the children could not be taken from the hospital by the parents) and said the family would have to be monitored 24 hours a day.

The young couple - both aged 22 and virtually teetotal, churchgoing Methodists - were told they had to live in a special family unit 30 miles away at the Fleming Memorial Hospital, in Newcastle. If they refused, the children would be taken from them. There, for the first time, they came face to face with Dr Marietta Higgs.

Barry, a former hotel manager, recalls today: "She walked into the room off a main ward and just looked at us. Then she asked if she could examine Lindsey and told us to take our daughter's clothes off."

It was a fateful moment. What Barry and Linda did not know was that only a month before, in June 1986, 38-yearold Dr Higgs had attended a medical conference in Leeds.

There the Australian-born doctor enthusiastically embraced a new method of diagnosing child abuse - RAD - directly from its pioneers, two paediatrician called Dr Christopher Hobbs and Dr Jane Wynne.

As Dr Higgs was to admit later: "This made a great impact on me."

Now at 1.30pm on July 16, 1986, at the Fleming Memorial Hospital, Dr Higgs seized her first chance of trying the technique. "She examined Lindsey's backside and then went away and told us nothing," says Barry today.

But a week later, Dr Higgs confronted Barry and Linda with the words: "I think it is an appropriate time to inform you of my suspicions. I strongly suspect that your eldest daughter, Lindsey, has been sexually abused."

Although outwardly confident of her radical diagnosis, it is now known that Dr Higgs went home after examining Lindsey to try out RAD on the two youngest of her own five children. When they did not show the same telltale signs as the Wise family's eldest daughter, she concluded that Barry or Linda, perhaps both, were abusers.

Two days later she asked them to bring Lindsey back to her Newcastle consulting rooms.

"She put our daughter on the bed, kneeling face down, and parted her buttocks. Then she said: "This is what I am talking about," and walked out," remembers Barry now. "She treated Lindsey like a piece of meat."

Moments later a policeman arrested him and Linda on suspicion of assault and buggery of their own daughter. Social workers took Lindsey and Paula away from the hospital to foster parents and the Wises were driven to nearby Gosforth Police Station to be interviewed.

Barry remembers: "We don't drink, we never went out at night and left the children with a sitter, so they said no one else could have harmed them. We were asked if I changed the nappies or bathed the girls alone."

No charges were ever brought. Throughout the ordeal, the parents could remember Lindsey's cries ringing in their ears as they left her at the hospital. She was screaming: "I want to go home." By her side, the 18-monthold Paula was clinging to her sister.

Yet worse was to come. Six months later, in January 1987, Dr Higgs transferred to Middlesbrough General, the hospital with which her name became intrinsically linked.

There, with another paediatrician, Dr Geoffrey Wyatt, she introduced the routine use of the anal dilatation test. It resulted in the mass diagnosis of child abuse on a scale never seen before in the world.

Meanwhile, Barry and Linda tried to keep in touch with their daughters. Over the 17 months they were away, they sent cards for Christmas, for their birthdays and for Easter. They were returned in a brown envelope, unopened.

After the couple had been parted from their children for 15 weeks, in November 1986, they received a letter from social worker Carol Towers. It said there were plans for Lindsey and Paula to "be provided with a permanent alternative family with the intention that adoption will be the outcome".

The consequences of the letter were tragic. When Linda became pregnant with a third child, in March, 1987, she was so traumatised and terrified that her new baby would be taken by social workers that she went to South Cleveland Hospital for an abortion.

"I don't know if I was expecting a boy or a girl," she said this week, emotionally, "but it was a much-wanted child."

The demonic fervour of Dr Higgs was soon to prove her undoing. Between February and July of 1987, 121 Cleveland children were diagnosed by her and Dr Wyatt as sexually abused. The numbers were impossible to ignore.

An entire primary school of children was asked by Dr Wyatt to attend the hospital for the RAD test because he said all the pupils were anally abused.

The local MP, Stuart Bell, demanded a judicial inquiry into why so many children were suddenly being vilely hurt by their loved ones. The Cleveland crisis was grabbing national headlines and parents began consulting lawyers.

For the Wises, something extraordinary was about to happen. Unknown to Barry and Linda, their daughters had been growing up with good foster parents, with three girls of their own.

The "Allan" family (we have changed the name, as they have asked the Mail to protect their privacy) took the Wise girls to Middleborough Hospital in April 1987 for a final medical check-up with Marietta Higgs before being adopted.

There, astonishingly, the doctor diagnosed that both had been sexually abused while in foster care. Immediately, the natural children of the Allans - Selina, aged ten, Rebecca, eight, and two year old Eleanor - were admitted to hospital.

Dr Higgs deemed that all three had "signs" consistent with sexual abuse. The girls' father, Michael, a civil servant, was arrested.

"It was like being hit by a prizefighter. Marietta Higgs and the others were like religious zealots on a mission," he said this week.

As for his daughter, Selina, she managed to smuggle a letter to her parents out of the Middleborough General Hospital where she was being kept with the Wise girls and her own sisters.

It said: "Dear Mum and Dad. I miss you very much. In the hospital very early on Saturday morning, Dr Higgs woke me up to take photographs of our bottoms. And about Saturday too, in the afternoon, she took Eleanor, Lindsey and Paula for photographs with June the nurse. The man who took the photographs was Ken and he was horrid."

By the summer of 1987, wards nine and ten of Middleborough General were overflowing with children taken from their parents after alleged sexual abuse.

Such an extraordinary number of cases prompted high-level concern. How could there be so many abuse victims? Surely the doctors must be wrong?

Barry Wise said this week: "When the Allan's were accused too, we realised we were not alone. It gave us strength to fight.

"Lindsey and Paula were sent to yet another foster home. But we got legal aid, and in February the following year, 1988, the children were officially given back to us in a ruling by a judge at Middleborough Court."

A few weeks prior to this final decision, the family had been reunited in a tearful and desperately poignant scene.

When Lindsey, then aged four, caught sight of her father for the first time since being ripped away from the family, she slapped him on the leg. "I used to live with you a long time ago,' she said accusingly. "Where have you been?"

The parents hugged their two daughters as though they would never let go.

The ordeal was over. Or was it? Lindsey, an elegant girl who has already won two prizes for nursing and will qualify later this year, believes that her and Paula's childhood was fractured by the Cleveland doctors.

It was only this week, after the Chief Medical Officer's pronouncement, that the two Wise girls have been told by their parents the entire truth. The family have a plastic bag of newspaper cuttings about the Cleveland crisis and they have read them through together.

Tragically, they have looked at the colourful birthday cards they never received with the desperate messages from their parents telling them they were loved and missed.

Lindsey says now: "Of course, I cannot remember everything because I was so young. But I do recall the smell of Middleborough General Hospital at the time. I associated it with fear.

"In my last year at primary school, I was first told by other children I had been in care. At my secondary school, a boy said my dad was a "paedophile".

"I came home and asked Mum and Dad about it. They tried to protect me; they only said they had been wrongly accused of hurting me and Paula when we were little.

"Only now I realise the harm done to our family. I was away from my parents for 17 months and only came back by chance. I was placed naked on all fours and peered at by doctors again and again. What does that do to a child?'

Her sister Paula adds: "We were kidnapped and then nearly adopted. My mother was blackmailed into having an abortion so we do not have a younger brother or sister.

'My father now says he did not dare even put a towel around me at the public swimming pool for years. He was afraid of cuddling us in public. My parents lives have been shattered."

So what of Marietta Higgs? Today she is working as a paediatrician in Kent. In 1988, a public inquiry headed by Lord Justice Butler-Sloss (now in charge of the inquiry into Princess Diana's death) criticised her and Dr Wyatt for being over-confident in their diagnoses.

Northern Regional Health Authority barred Dr Higgs from child abuse work in their region. She has never apologised. "I reached my clinical diagnosis after very careful thought and I would do the same today," is what she said then.

Although this week she refused to comment further, Dr Higgs made it clear she has not changed her views.

No wonder Lindsey and Paula Wise shake their heads in horror.
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We live in dangerous times.

She looks arrogant.

 

Experts - The Day Of Reckoning
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Experts

 The experts
A fitting header image to this section is that of a torture device of the 21st century inquisition - the infamous plethysmograph. One of the experts listed below, Gene Abel, claims to have invented a test associated with it.

Marietta
Marietta is a generic name for the many women doctors and so-called ‘experts’ who ruined the lives of children and their families with false medical testimony. The name is chosen from the model of the paediatrician, Dr. Marietta Higgs, in Great Britain, who used the bizarre technique of Reflex Anal Dilation for diagnosing child abuse. She and her followers would probe the anuses of children in the expectation that resulting dilation would be proof that they had been sodomized.
 

In 1986, toddler Lyndsey Wise scratched her arms while picking bilberries. At Middleborough General Hospital, she and her sister were examined by Dr. Marietta Higgs. Not only were their parents accused of sexually abusing their daughters, the foster parents with whom the girls were placed and who intended to adopt them were also accused, the foster father arrested for buggery on Higgs’ further testimony. By 1987 the activities of Higgs had filled the wards of Middleborough General Hospital with children taken from their parents after alleged sexual abuse, all of whom had undergone similar ordeals to that of the Wise sisters. The affair became the notorious Cleveland Child Abuse Controversy, but despite public outrage and all the parents being cleared, Marietta Higgs never conceded that she was wrong and continued to work as a paediatrician.

A general view was that the only abuse the children had suffered was from the probing fingers of Higgs and her abuse hunting team. The name Marietta is now given here to the many, many Mariettas in the world.

Kee McFarlane
Kathleen (Kee) McFarlane is a social worker who led the American day care satanic sex abuse hoax in the 1980s. Working for an organization in California called Children's Institute International, she developed highly suggestive and coercive interviewing methods that led children to fabricate accounts of bizarre and brutal abuse at the McMartin Preschool which never happened. She became recognized as an ‘expert’ and trained numerous other social workers, resulting in a national hysteria which engulfed several preschools across the nation and led to the wrongful conviction of large numbers of day-care employees. A faculty member at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law has a great deal of information about the McMartin case (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcmartin/mcmartin.html) including an example of McFarlane's coercive interviewing style (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcmartin/victiminterviews.html).

Not only were adults wrongfully convicted, but hundreds of young children were convinced by social workers that they had really been abused, and showed serious iatrogenic symptoms. In addition, this day-care hysteria led to the current American paranoia that children are at constant risk of sexual abuse and that adults (particularly males) cannot be trusted with children.

More recently, McFarlane has contributed to the fear that children are not even safe from each other, by promoting the belief that large numbers of children molest other children, and need drastic, punitive treatments to control their behaviour. She co-authored a ‘treatment’ workbook published in 2003 (see https://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/7821409/used/Steps%20to%20Healthy%20Touching:%20Activities%20to%20Help%20Kids%20Understand%20and%20Control%20Their%20Problems%20with%20Touching). This book requires children to repeatedly describe and draw pictures of their sexually ‘abusive’ behaviour (apparently to increase their shame). It also gives them extraordinarily scary messages about their sexual feelings and tells them they have a life-long, dangerous problem. It is documented at Ethicaltreatment.org.

Gene Abel
Gene Abel  [ See Gene Abel - NewgonWiki ] is a doctor in Atlanta who runs a lucrative business (http://abelscreening.com/) providing sex offender assessments. He is extremely influential among sex offender treatment providers, and promotes his ideas through a book he and his wife have written (http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=13270) and through an organization they founded at http://www.childmolestationprevention.org


Abel claims that 5% of all boys develop paedophilia, usually in childhood or puberty, and recommends that all parents question their sons at around age 12 about their sexual fantasies (See his book, or http://www.childmolestationprevention.org/pages/tell_others_the_facts.html and http://www.childmolestationprevention.org/pages/act.html). Any boy who is suspected of having sexual thoughts involving younger children, or who has been sexually touched by an older child or adult, is to be tested with either a sexual interest test (developed by Abel himself, in which the boy examines photographs of children and adults in swimwear while a computer measures visual reaction time), a lie detector test, or a plethysmograph connected to his genitals while he looks at or listens to sexually stimulating material. Such tests (aside from their intensely humiliating and stigmatizing effects) have never been validated on a representative sample of American children to establish norms. In fact, researchers are agreed that very little is known about normal sexual feelings during childhood and adolescence. To make matters worse, Abel refuses to release data necessary for independent researchers to evaluate his test.

Abel's book outlines the following "treatment" to cure these boys: isolation from other children (possibly removal from the family), constant monitoring of sexual feelings and behaviour by family members and friends who report to the therapist (and sometimes by plethysmograph), high doses of sex drive reducing drugs, covert sensitization, and ammonia aversion therapy. The last two methods are intended to eliminate particular sexual thoughts by pairing them with pain, fear, or humiliation. Any of these methods may be imposed on the boy for life by the therapist, regardless of his or his parents' wishes.

Although Abel refers to these ‘treatments’ as ‘breakthroughs in testing, medicine, and therapies’, plethysmographs, sex drive reducing drugs, aversion therapy, and covert sensitization are the methods used decades ago to ‘cure’ gay people. Mainstream health professionals and the public (even those who disapprove of homosexual behaviour) now consider them ineffective, dangerous, and unethical. Numerous accounts show they lead to nightmares, depression, chronic anxiety, self-hatred, and suicidal thoughts among both gay men and children labelled as ‘deviant’. Abel shows no concern for emotional trauma and intense stigma these methods inflict on boys, instead rationalizing such abuse by writing that the protection of normal children takes precedence over the welfare of these deviant children--presumably 5% of all boys age 12 and up.

Read more at Ethicaltreatment.org.

 

Dr Judith Reisman
Dr Judith Reisman is a forefront campaigner for highly restrictive pornography laws and uses a lot of very dodgy pseudo scientific methodologies and terminologies to discredit people and support her own agendas. See her profiles and history at http://www.drjudithreisman.com/articles.html and http://www.drjudithreisman.com/laws.html

Dr. Judith Reisman, who claims to be an internationally-recognized author, scientist, and educator specializing in sexual perversion, says that the growing appetite for child pornography corresponds to the ‘pornographic, erototoxic epidemic’.

"It’s called in science 'social contagion' or 'emotional contagion,'" Reisman told LifeSiteNews.com. "Historically it is known as ‘monkey see monkey do.’ She goes on to say that pornography wires viewers brains to lust after the rape of women and children, globally breeding nations of child rapists, serial rapist murderers and the like among men, women and even children.

She claims that pornography ‘mutilates the human brain’ and creates offenders, rather than simply pandering to an existing pathology. "Erototoxins turn what could have been normal, decent humans into vile and deformed molesters," she said. "Our brains and our behaviour are shaped by our environment.” source: (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180390/posts)

Despite there being no actual reputable or objective studies that support her opinions, she extols these opinions in order to influence both the public and politicians. The proposer sees Reisman as ‘a very prominent member of the new Inquisition’.

Editorial comment. Most successful propagandas use truths and partial truths and then twist and exaggerate them into distortions. Her claim that child pornography can be correlated with increased eroticization, which, while being hard to argue with, could also be seen in the context that the world through media and technology has just begun to discover both. Their relationship to one another is far less relevant than their relationship to technology. Ask how much pornography there would be if neither printing nor photography had been invented.
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