Little Victim: The Real Story of Britain's Vulnerable Children and the People Who Rescue Them Book

In Baby X we learned how Harry Keeble and his colleagues in Hackney's Child Protection Unit rescued dozens of kids from unimaginable squalor faced lynch mobs and undertook the impossible job of interviewing paedophiles. Now in Little Victim Harry follows the trail of three of the worst cases of child abuse his department ever encountered. We learn the victims' stories backwards from the point when Harry contacts them right back to when the abuse started. The reader is given a unique police- and victim-based account of these incredible tales of survival. On top of this Harry also has to contend with many new cases including the runaway fourteen-year-old brother and sister sleeping together as boyfriend and girlfriend the rape of a three-year-old boy the runaway child found on the Internet being abused and an innocent granddad facing the wrath of his neighbours when his granddaughter makes false accusations.Little Victim provides a unique insight into child abuse in the UK shedding light on some of the most famous cases in recent years from the Doncaster torturers to the violence perpetuated by some leading religious figures as well as telling the very personal stories of those horrific cases that didn't make it into the media. As Harry continues his battle to bring Britain's child abusers to justice he discovers that there is still plenty for him to learn. No matter how often he sees the effects of abuse its impact never weakens. Harry is pushed right to the edge as he confronts horrors past and present.