--- title: "2 Abuser Quotes By Beatrix Campbell" description: "2 Abuser quotes by Beatrix Campbell. Plus more from Beatrix Campbell and more Abuser sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7d/beatrix-campbell-36463_abuser_the-bfmss-british-false-memory-syndrome_1769725.jpg" --- > [ “The BFMSS \[British False Memory Syndrome Society\] The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of his adult daughters say that Roger Scotford sexually abused them in childhood. He denied this and responded by… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/the-bfmss-british-false-memory-syndrome-society-the-founder-of-the/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7d/beatrix-campbell-36463_abuser_the-bfmss-british-false-memory-syndrome_1769725.jpg) > [“The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being one of the many places where abuse nested. This notion, which in the 1990s and early 1980s was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/the-survivor-movements-were-also-challenging-the-notion-of-a/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adf/beatrix-campbell-36463_abuse_the-survivor-movements-were-also-challen_1786018.jpg) ## Other authors on Abuser - [Lundy Bancroft 18 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/lundy-bancroft/) - [Shannon Thomas 16 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/shannon-thomas/) ## More by Beatrix Campbell > [“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed? After all,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/another-preoccupation-fed-into-this-dynamic-relationship-between/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/children-s-bodies-aren-t-like-automobiles-with-the-assailant-s/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [“The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds paediatricians Dr…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/the-discovery-that-detonated-cleveland-is-one-of-britain-s-great/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [“Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/many-professionals-have-to-sign-gagging-clauses-or-face-the-sack-if/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [“(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children) So what does this movement consist of? Who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/talking-about-the-movement-to-deny-the-prevalence-and-effects-of/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [ “The BFMSS \[British False Memory Syndrome Society\] The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of his adult… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/the-bfmss-british-false-memory-syndrome-society-the-founder-of-the/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [“The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/the-survivor-movements-were-also-challenging-the-notion-of-a/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/a-society-in-which-adults-are-estranged-from-the-world-of-children/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/the-asylum-and-later-the-national-health-service-warehoused-thousands/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/in-the-context-of-the-great-debates-about-identity-politics-are-you/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [“The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project: how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/the-themes-that-exercised-the-minds-of-survivor-movements-and-their/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases which appeared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/in-this-book-we-paint-an-unprecedented-portrait-of-britain-s-first/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) > [Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beatrix-campbell/be-prepared-to-be-enlightened-enraged-amused-engaged-and-above-all/) [Beatrix Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beatrix-campbell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/beatrix-campbell/#itemlist", "name": "2 Abuser Quotes By Beatrix Campbell", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The BFMSS [British False Memory Syndrome Society] The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of his adult daughters say that Roger Scotford sexually abused them in childhood. He denied this and responded by launching a spectacular counter-attack, which enjoyed apparently unlimited and uncritical air time in the mass media and provoke Establishment institutions that had made no public utterance about abuse to pronounce on the accused adults' repudiation of it. p171-172 The 'British False Memory Syndrome Society' lent a scientific aura to the allegations - the alchemy of 'falsehood' and 'memory' stirred with disease and science. The new name pathologised the accusers and drew attention away from the accused. But the so-called syndrome attacked not only the source of the stories but also the alliances between the survivors' movement and practitioners in the health, welfare, and the criminal justice system. The allies were represented no longer as credulous dupes but as malevolent agents who imported a miasma of the 'false memories' into the imaginations of distressed victims. Roger Scotford was a former naval officer turned successful property developer living in a Georgian house overlooking an uninterrupted valley in luscious middle England. He was a rich man and was able to give up everything to devote himself to the crusade. He says his family life was normal and that he had been a 'Dr Spock father'. But his first wife disagrees and his second wife, although believing him innocent, describes his children's childhood as very difficult. His daughters say they had a significantly unhappy childhood. In the autumn of 1991, his middle daughter invited him to her home to confront him with the story of her childhood. She was supported by a friend and he was invited to listen and then leave. She told him that he had abused her throughout her youth. 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