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England: Newham Council in London is looking for a child protection officer specifically to work with cases of abused children who are believed to be posessed or witches. The council acknowledges that the number of cases is miniscule, and it's amusing the way they try and avoid mentioning that it's mostly associated with a tiny minority of evangelical Christian churches who exploit African communities in Britain. The local newspaper, on the other hand, seems to have gone out of its way to suggest that it's about witches abusing children, with phrases like witch-hunter
and dedicated to rooting out child abuse linked with 'possession' and 'witchcraft'
. Obviously the article was being written last night when the journalist ought to have been watching BBC2.
'The witch-hunter' - Officer to root out child abuse—Newham Recorder, 23rd August 2006. See also Media in moral panic shocker!—Pagan Prattle, 26th June 2005.
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