She revealed that one of the BMJ's satellite journals,
Archives of Disease in Childhood, had recently turned down,
on legal advice, a series of case reports describing clinical signs associated with
child abuse, which would have been useful to GPs and other doctors working in
child protection.
Since no concrete, national data exist
on allegations of
child sex
abuse by school employees, the project was also based
on searches through
archives, wire service clippings, and computer databases of thousands of news...