Atacan a una doctora al confundir “pediatra” con “pederasta”
Recopilación de 4 versiones de una misma noticia, sucedida en el año 2000:
La primera versión ha sido extraída del diario “El Mundo”, concretamente en: http://www.elmundo.es/noticias/2000/8/30/sociedad/967614245.html
Miércoles, 30 de agosto de 2000. Actualización: 18.02 horas
REINO UNIDO
Atacan la casa de un médico al confundir «pediatra» con «pederasta»
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LONDRES .- Un grupo de vándalos ha asaltado el domicilio de un pediatra creyendo, al leer su placa profesional, que se trataba de un pederasta, según han informado fuentes policiales. «Algunas personas son totalmente ignorantes, es pasmoso», ha comentado Marie Thorn, administradora del hospital Royal Gwent, en el sur de Gales, donde ejerce como especialista el doctor Yvette Cloete, víctima del ataque.
Según la policía, los vándalos han pintado inscripciones con el prefijo «pedo» en las paredes del domicilio del doctor Cloete, quien, conmocionado, ha tenido que refugiarse después del ataque en casa de unos amigos.
Los ataques contra casas de presuntos pederastas han sido frecuentes durante este verano en Gran Bretaña tras la oleada de histeria provocada por la publicación en un diario de una lista de pederastas condenados por la justicia.
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La siguiente versión viene de El escéptico digital: http://digital.el-esceptico.org/leer.php?autor=386&id=1029&tema=82
AMENAZAN A UNA PEDIATRA BRITÁNICA CONFUNDIDA CON UN PEDERASTA
Cristina Frade
La caza de pederastas se ha cobrado otra víctima inocente en Gran Bretaña. En esta ocasión, se trata de una respetada pediatra británica y todo se debe, al parecer, a una bochornosa confusión entre su título profesional («paediatrician», en inglés) y la palabra pederasta («paedophile»).
Yvette Cloete, especialista en pediatría del Hospital Royal Gwent de Newport, ha decidido abandonar temporalmente su domicilio en un pueblo del sur de Gales, después de que un grupo de vándalos inscribiera la palabra «paedo» en el porche y en la puerta principal de la vivienda que comparte con su hermano.
«Borramos las pintadas inmediatamente, pero esto resulta muy angustioso. Por el momento nos hemos trasladado a otra zona porque, cuando ocurre algo así, uno deja de sentirse seguro en su casa», ha asegurado la mujer, de 42 años.
El inspector Andrew Adams, portavoz de la policía de Gwent, ha confirmado que las inscripciones se debieron sin duda a una confusión entre las palabras «pediatra» y «pederasta» y ha insistido en que «nada justifica lo que se ha escrito en las paredes y en la puerta de la casa de la doctora Cloete».
«Esta gente», ha dicho el policía refiriéndose a los justicieros, «debería reflexionar sobre lo que ha hecho a un valioso miembro de la comunidad que ha dedicado su vida a ayudar a los niños, sobre las consecuencias de sus inapropiadas acciones».
Profesional respetada
El hospital donde trabaja la pediatra desde hace dos años y medio también ha salido en su defensa, describiéndola como una profesional de primera fila, apreciada y respetada por sus colegas. Según sus vecinos, Yvette Cloete y su hermano son «personas decentes que se llevan bien con todo el mundo».
La persecución de los pederastas por grupos de vecinos fue reavivada por el dominical sensacionalista News of the World en julio pasado, con la publicación de un listado con fotos y direcciones de personas condenadas por delitos sexuales contra menores. Desde entonces, al menos cinco familias acusadas erróneamente de albergar pederastas han tenido que huir de sus casas.
Por lo menos, resulta alentador -ya se sabe eso de que “mal de muchos consuelo de tontos”- el observar que el fracaso de los planes de estudio de Humanidades al parecer, tal y como algunos sospechábamos, constituye un mal algo más general y que no entiende de fronteras.
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La tercera versión es en inglés, de la BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/901723.stm
Wednesday, 30 August, 2000, 19:04 GMT 20:04 UK
Paediatrician attacks 'ignorant' vandals
A hospital paediatrician has hit out at vandals who forced her to flee her home after apparently taking her job title to mean she was a paedophile.
South African-born Yvette Cloete - a 30-year-old trainee consultant at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, south Wales - said she planned to move home after returning to find the outside of her property daubed with the words "paedo".
She said she can not rule out the possibility that the paint attack was connected with her job at the hospital.
She also praised the friendly neighbourhood where she had lived with her brother Andre, 24, in the village of St Brides, and said she had become a victim of ignorance.
Speaking for the first time since the attack on the rented home she has vowed never to return to, she described the shock of discovering what had happened.
"It is just unbelievable. It is terrible that people think that they have the right to vandalise your property like this no matter what you have done.
"We telephoned the police immediately and began to clean off the words as soon as we could. You think that your home is a place to go to to be safe so it is a shock when something like this happens."
Ms Cloete said the graffiti had been daubed across the front door windows and surrounding woodwork on Monday.
Ignorance
"I'm living with friends at the moment. I won't be returning there again. I think I will look for somewhere more upmarket.
"It looks as though it was just a question of confusing the job title for something else - I suppose I'm really a victim of ignorance," she said.
Rosemary Butler, the Welsh Assembly member for Newport West, described the attack as "appalling".
Ms Butler said that the attack on Dr Cloete's home appeared to be carried out through "sheer hysteria, bravado and ignorance."
She condemned the campaign by the News of the World to name and shame paedophiles in the community.
"We have a code of law and I cannot condone people taking the law into their own hands," said Ms Butler.
Both Gwent Police and Dr Cloete believe the only explanation is the "extraordinary ignorance" of the people who carried out the vandal attack.
"It is appalling that a professional woman who cares for children has been forced from her home" (Chief Inspector Carl Close)
Chief Inspector Carl Close, who is heading the investigation into the attack, said the police currently had no ideas who was responsibe.
But he said he felt that it maybe someone more 'sinister' than children.
"It is appalling that a professional woman who cares for children has been forced from her home," added Chief Inspector Close.
Marie Thorn, a senior administrator at the Royal Gwent Hospital, said Dr Cloete was dealing "very well with the circumstances".
"As a happy coincidence she is moving away from the area - and I don't think this will be anything to make her regret that decision," she said.
"It is really quite staggering that this kind of mistake can happen. Some people are incredibly ignorant."
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La última es una versión también en inglés del país donde aconteció el suceso: http://archive.salon.com/sex/world/2000/09/26/vigilante/index.html
Plain stupid
British vigilantes mistake a pediatrician for a pedophile.
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By Jack Boulware
Sept. 26, 2000 | Throughout the summer, Britain has been obsessed with the subject of pedophiles. In July, the news media was saturated with stories of a missing 8-year-old girl whose naked body was discovered weeks later in a field. The News of the World tabloid then published photos of alleged sex offenders.
Aside from being a dubious journalistic tactic, the attention resulted in a series of vigilante attacks against people who had the same surnames as the alleged offenders. As hysteria increased, one man reportedly was suspected of being a pedophile simply because he lived by himself. And last month, one vigilante attack turned out to have been the work of illiterates, who confused the words "pediatrician" and "pedophile," and vandalized the home of a children's doctor in Wales.
Yvette Cloete is a specialist in pediatric medicine at the Royal Gwent Hospital. But to an isolated group of vigilantes, she was obviously a child molester. Pediatric means pedophile, right? These self-appointed defenders of the truth made their position known by spray-painting the doctor's windows and the front door of her home with the word "paedo," an abbreviation of the British spelling "paedophile."
Gwent police inspector Karl Close investigated the attack, and came away with the clear impression that the perpetrators were plain stupid. "Are they just so dull they don't realize the difference between the two?" Close asked the Associated Press. "This is a pediatrician who is committed to helping children and somebody targeted her."
Cloete had been living in the rented home with her 24-year-old brother, and police were satisfied that neither had any connection to pedophilia. The home was targeted simply because of the doctor's title.
Cloete has moved into a friend's home, with no plans to return to her own house. But she is baffled by the misguided attack.
"It is just unbelievable," Cloete told a reporter. "You think that your home is a place to go to be safe, so it is a shock when something like this happens. I suppose I'm really a victim of ignorance."
Police are continuing their investigation, and no arrests have yet been made.
salon.com | Sept. 26, 2000
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