Andy Croall After Dark Abortion is Child Abuse Statement

Andy Croall, at that time deputy director of social work for Nottingham, appeared on Channel 4 TVs 'After Dark' programme which was broadcast on 9 March 1991. As the Rochdale false SRA case was collapsing the title of the programme was 'After Rochdale' but ostensibly it was more about in-fighting between Notts Social Services and Team4 which had tried to establish the Broxtowe interfamilial abuse case as Satanic Abuse. The police and the rest of Notts SS thought differently. Beatrix Campbell, a Marxist feminist who had been a key activist in the 1987 Cleveland Mass-lifts scandal was heavily involved with supporting Team4 and wrote extensively in the Guardian, New Statesmen and elsewhere to establish the existence and threat of Satanic Ritual Abuse in Broxtowe and elsewhere. In the end there was no involvement of any Satanists and no Satanic ceremonies were found to have occurred. See http://saff.nfshost.com/broxtowe.htm for the full story.
Here Croall reveals his evangelical beliefs in the devil and defined Abortion as a form of child abuse. This caused a furore within Notts social services and NALGO who represented grass-roots social workers demanded he be disciplined. He was suspended and an inquiry undertaken. He became a cause celebre for fundamentalist activists in the U.K. who not only wrote thousands of letters supporting him to MPs and Notts SS but also picketed their offices with anti-abortion placards etc. Croall was reinstated but with strict rules barring him from discussing or applying his fundamentalist beliefs to his job. Croall shortly thereafter resigned from Notts SS and was offered a top level ob with Caring Professions Concern, a large lobby of Christian evangelicals ensconced within the NHS etc. He eventually spoke at Satan Seminars to further his belief that SRA existed and convince others of its dangers. There has not been one proven case of SRA in the following 28 years.