Editing Bruce C. Harris (section)

==Personal life and career==
Harris grew up in [[Dorset]], and after high school he joined the conservative musical group [[Up with People]] serving as an emcee from 1975 until 1980.<ref name="oas_bio"/><ref name="people_2001-04-21">
{{cite news
|date=2001-04-21
|title=Safe Havens
|first=Susan
|last=Schindehette
|newspaper=People Magazine
|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20134027,00.html
}}</ref> After returning to school with a major in International Studies, he joined [[Save the Children]] as a volunteer, and in 1989 he became the head of [[Covenant House]]'s Latin American operations as executive director of Casa Alianza.<ref name="people_2001-04-21"/>

In 1993 he had to flee with his family from [[Guatemala]] when bullets were fired at the office where he worked after his investigations led to criminal proceedings being brought against police officers for the torture of street children.<ref name="E.N.Diario">
{{cite web
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 |title       = Bruce Harris era un gran simulador
 |last        = Imhof
 |first       = Valeria
 |publisher   = [[El Nuevo Diario]]
 |location    = Managua, Nicaragua
 |date        = September 24, 2004
 |url-status     = dead
 |archiveurl  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090620082953/http://archivo.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2004/septiembre/24-septiembre-2004/nacional/nacional-20040924-03.html
 |archivedate = June 20, 2009
}}</ref>

In 1998, he was tried and acquitted after charges of defamation, libel and slander were brought against him by an attorney for the Defenders Association of Adoption, María Susana Luarca Saracho because of his claims about irregular adoptions in Guatemala.<ref name="E.N.Diario"/> In 2000, [[Costa Rica]]n president [[Miguel Angel Rodríguez]] accused him of plotting to damage that nation's reputation regarding its alleged [[Prostitution of children|child sex trade]]. He spoke in support of a class action lawsuit against the government of Guatemala seeking damages for alleged state sponsored genocide.<ref>[http://hondurasweekly.com/bruce-harris-%281955-2010%29-r.-i.-p.-201006142677 W. E. Gutman, Honduras Weekly obituary (June 14, 2010)]{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Harris' profile at speaktruth.org states that his work led to 392 criminal prosecutions of alleged crimes involving children.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bruce Harris Biography |url=http://www.speaktruth.org/defend/profiles/profile_03.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010222132648/http://www.speaktruth.org/defend/profiles/profile_03.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2001-02-22 |work=speaktruth.org |publisher=Speak Truth To Power |accessdate=2010-08-18 }}</ref> Most of these prosecutions occurred subsequent to Harris having filed denunciations (complaints) of child "sexual abuse."