Teresa Cooper

Who is Teresa Cooper?

Teresa Cooper is a Children's Rights campaigner against family injustice and child abuse. She is known for her eighteen-year campaign on fighting for the justice and exposure of one of the child abuse against children in Local Authority and the Church of England's care and was one of the girls drugged, sexually abused and imprisoned in a small room for over 163 days while in care at the children's home, Kendall House, Kent, in the 1970s and 1980s. She claims that the girls she was with in the home have now had children of their own with birth defects, and that these defects are a direct result of being drugged while at Kendall House.

The story was first revisited in a national newspaper by Adrian Butler of the Sunday Mirror in January 2009

The story has been covered by Sally Gillen in 2007 reporter at Communitycare Magazine, Review by Liz Davies is senior lecturer children and families social work, London Metropolitan University and blog by Sally Gillen

Cooper first took her case to Parliament with her then MP Neil Gerrard in 1994

Cooper has since received a "substantial out of court settlement" in regard to her civil case against the Church of England.