Webster Richard:
The Secret Of Bryn Estyn
The Making Of A Modern Witch Hunt
Orwell Press (United Kingdom), 2009
Paperback, 736 pages
Size: 198x129 mm
ISBN: 9780951592267
ISBN-10: 0951592262
List price: £11.95
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The Secret Of Bryn Estyn
The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt. In 1991 rumours began to circulate in North Wales that Bryn Estyn, a home for adolescent boys on the outskirts of Wrexham, was the centre of a paedophile ring. A massive police investigation was launched which, over the next ten years, spread to care homes throughout Britain. Thousands were accused, hundreds arrested, and prisons began to fill up with convicted care workers. Had we at last faced up to a horrifying reality? Or had we unleashed a new kind of witch-hunt, one that was unable to discriminate between the guilty and the innocent?
