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Baby X

Britain's Child Abusers Brought to Justice

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Baby X

By: Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington
Narrated by: Damian Lynch
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About this listen

Baby X is a shocking and unforgettable story of how some of the UK's most disadvantaged children escaped their tormentors - and explains why some cases, similar to that of Baby P's, ended in tragedy. When super-tough cop Sergeant Harry Keeble announced he was joining Hackney's ailing Child Protection Team in 2000, his colleagues were astounded. Known as the 'Cardigan Squad', its officers were seen as glorified social workers dealing with domestics.

The reality was very different. Within a few months he'd fought machete-wielding thugs, rescued kids who had pit bulls chained to their cots and confronted the horrors of African witchcraft, exposing a network of abuse in the process - all in his unrelenting war against child cruelty. Harry rescued dozens of kids - kids in crack houses, kids living in unimaginable filth and kids who had burned their houses down. Then there were the hostage situations, the lynch mobs, and the almost impossible process of interviewing paedophiles to get a confession. Without wading in sentimentality, he describes how his team - working alongside dedicated but chronically underfunded social workers - operated at the sharp end of child protection.

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Harrowing stories, brilliantly read, we need more officers like the ones who worked on the cases.

Excellently read

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Great story telling and disturbing but fascinating at the same time. Real life case by case stories on many horrific crimes against children. Worth a read/listen. As was the first crack house.

Case by case

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all of Harry's books are very good I have listened to them all.the are all insightful and interesting this one by far was the hardest to listen to due to the nature of it.

Good but hard to listen to at times

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A really well read true crime audiobook, it's a difficult listen at times but really brings home the important work these officers do

hard hitting and intense but great

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What an amazing credit Harry Keeble is to the police force.

His endless need for justice for the vulnerable is evident in all he does.

His previous book Crackhouse, shows again how he is a force to reckoned with when uncovering the lowlifes out there, preying on the vulnerable,

Known as the cardigan squad which is ,a very misleading title. These officers tirelessly work on an area where few of us want to know about as it is too distressing.

The whole book is delivered in a straight no
nonsense way, delivering a powerful punch.

Protecting the innocent

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