Up the Hill of Difficulty

Kent WPC Gail Cox is chosen as the woman to bring law to Pitcairn. She sets off to Pitcairn to teach the locals how to Police themselves. At a drunken Pitcairn party, one evening, another girl makes an allegation of rape. Detective Peter George returns to Pitcairn and a distressing and astonishing picture begins to emerge of child sexual abuse on an unimaginable scale.

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Episodes will be available for free wherever you get your podcasts in January.

Episodes 1-3 from 9 Jan

Episodes 4-5 from 16 Jan

Episodes 6-7 from 23 Jan

Episode 8 from 30 Jan

There are organisations around the world that work to prevent the abuse of children and support survivors.

In the UK:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ 

https://thesurvivorstrust.org/ 

In the US:

https://www.childhelphotline.org/ 

https://preventchildabuse.org/about-us/ 

In Australia:

https://www.napcan.org.au/

In New Zealand:

https://indigohouse.co.nz/

https://www.capf.org.nz/

https://www.familyaction.org.nz/

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