Abuse reports at British children's home

[Steve]

Cyril Turner has vivid memories of his time at Haut de la Garenne , a forbidding Victorian-era home for troubled children where a child's skull has been dug up and where police fear they will discover the bones of more young victims.

 

None of Turner's memories are good: He recalls beatings and a culture of fear that led to an escape attempt that ended in a car crash which landed him in the hospital for a year.

 

After decades of silence and shame, the truth about the imposing brown stone building overlooking the sea is slowly emerging as victims of suspected abuse speak out.

 

Turner, 49, is one of at least 150 people who have come forward to complain about physical, mental and sexual abuse they say was committed at the home before it closed in 1986...

 

 

[Guest lazyphil]

the tax haven (that is jersey....note, americans please refer to new jersey as that instead of 'joisey', irritating) for the uber rich has a vile dark side it seems. cruel bastards who did this.

[Julian2]

The Very Rev. Robert Key, who presides over Jersey's religious hierarchy as the Dean of Jersey, said the alleged abuses stem from a culture that gave too little thought to the welfare of children.

 

"Trust was misplaced," Key said in the aged Church of Gouray, located near the coast below Haut de la Garenne.

 

"In those years, coming out of the 19th century, we didn't have the right view of children. Children were almost routinely beaten and so on, you think of Dickens and all of that. And that kind of culture, where children didn't have the same rights as adults, continued," he said.

 

If "and so on" means raped and murdered why doesn't he come out and say it?