More from Haut De La Garenne. Jersey care abuse inquiry says children may still be at risk; Ms Vibert escaped the TV star's attentions, but was regularly sexually and physically abused by staff. Haut de la Garenne began in 1867 as an industrial school for 'young people of the lower classes of society and neglected children'. The construction of the school was funded at a cost of £2,410 by the Assembly of Governor, Bailiff and Jurats in order to house and educate boys formerly looked after at the General Hospital in Saint Helier. On 22 June 1867, 45 boys were transferred by coach to. Finally, it's done: an article about the Haut de la Garenne child abuse case. Being the first in 2007 to publish the full Dutroux X-Dossier file, including all the establishment names, after 1.5 years of research and writing, it was only natural to try and figure out if I could do the same with Haut de la Garenne when the case first made international headlines in 2008. Alan Collins, a solicitor with Pannone, a legal firm specialising in abuse cases that is representing 58 of the victims, says initially all the focus was on Haut de la Garenne, its workers. Haut de la Garenne The Jersey Accommodation and Activity Centre is a building in Saint Martin, Jersey, in the Channel Islands. It was formerly known as the Industrial School, the Jersey Home for Boys, and Haut de la Garenne. Its previous uses have included being an industrial school, a children’s home, a military signal station, a television filming location, and a youth hostel.
CHILDREN from the Jersey House of Horrors were loaned to rich paedophile yachtsmen as galley SEX SLAVES, a News of the World investigation reveals.The youngsters were told by care staff the boat rides were treats—only to be assaulted and RAPED at sea by pervert toffs.
Details of the sick attacks emerged as we discovered even more blood has been found in a bath in the dungeon underneath the Haut de la Garenne home—and in the drains. And our reporters have been told how builders on renovations at the home were urged by staff to BURN any bones they dug up.
We also uncover the full extent of the dark forces of corruption hampering the police investigation. We can reveal worried cops feel under so much pressure over the abuse allegations they are preparing to BYPASS Jersey’s own legal system and hand their evidence to our government.
This could include files on up to seven social workers and carers who worked at the sinister home—including one nicknamed the ‘pinball wizard’ who HURLED kids against the walls to see how far they would BOUNCE. At least two previous senior employees of children’s services on the island are also under investigation despite the attempts of corrupt former policemen, politicians and businessmen to scupper the inquiry.
We understand that two weeks ago Jersey ministers SECRETLY VOTED to have senior police investigator Lenny Harper removed from the case because they believed he was too open with the media. But the Chief of Police Graham Power refused.
Explosive -A source told us: “Such important figures have been implicated in the cover-up of abuse on the island that the cops feel the evidence should now be passed to the British government
“The latest revelations are explosive. It is going to cause massive waves within the political and legal world and could bring the whole of Jersey’s infrastructure crashing down.” One of the most serious lines of inquiry in the investigation is that children were regularly loaned to wealthy yachtsmen to “do with them what they chose for the day,” according to our source close to the investigation.
Haut de la Garenne staff described the trips as a treat for children who spent long hours cooped up at the home. But in reality the kids were subjected to the vilest sexual abuse on board the luxury boats. Our source said: “The allegations about the yachting community have come in from a number of different people. Bandicam serial keys list. It is a very strong line of inquiry and when the evidence is made public people will be horrified.” Meanwhile about a dozen bones found at the home have been sent to a DNA lab to find out how old they are —yet some bone fragments were too burnt to be tested.
Police have taken statements from local builders who were told: “If you find bones, get rid of them or burn them.” New blood spots have been discovered in cracks in a concrete bath in the underground chamber and have also been sent for tests and sniffer dogs trained to find blood have found scents in the drains underneath.
Forensic officers are now focusing on the wooden trapdoor leading to a second torture cellar in a bid to extract DNA or fingerprints. Our source said: “Detectives are doing everything they can to ensure every scrap of evidence is properly investigated. They are very aware that the home dates back to 1856 and some of these bones could be very old.
“This is going to be a long process but the officers have been presented with so many accounts of abuse and cover-ups it is crucial we get answers. People disclosing the abuse have been easy to ignore but finally they are getting a chance to be taken seriously.” The horrors being uncovered at Haut de la Garenne have revealed a Jersey tourists have never seen.
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Former abused care home residents claim what happened to them has been covered up by those in high office, desperate not to tarnish Jersey’s good name or risk politicians in London reducing their power over the tiny, but extremely wealthy, island. Although Jersey is part of the British Isles and under the Queen’s rule, it has a separate government system dating back to King John’s reign, and makes its own rules and laws.
Jersey’s 53-member parliament has no political parties. Its politicians, judges, policemen and business leaders come from a small elite—often linked by friendship or family. The island’s equivalent of our Commons Speaker is also its top judge—so the system of checks and balances between politics and the law we have in the UK is almost non-existent.
This is a place where the authorities allowed 43-year-old convicted paedophile Roger Holland to stand for election as an honorary constable officer— similar to a special cop in the UK, but with more powers. They knew that six years earlier he had indecently assaulted a mentally impaired 14-year-old girl and admitted molesting another girl. But he got the job and in 1997 rose to become vingtenier—the second most senior cop on the island’s volunteer force.
In 2001 he was jailed for indecently assaulting a young girl in the back of a police van. “Jersey has for too long been a law unto itself—it is time the truth came out,” says our source. Among those fighting for that is ex-health minister Senator Stuart Syvret, who resigned over the cover-up and has given statements to police claiming two senior legal figures were involved in the abuse.
Mr Syvret said: “I have given formal statements to the police concerning a number of establishment individuals. Officers I have spoken to are from a force external to Jersey police at the request of Jersey police.” Solicitor Nick le Cornu is also demanding change. “Jersey’s political class have for 60 years been ignoring and covering up poverty and injustice,” he claimed.
Police investigator Lenny Harper, an outsider from Northern Ireland, was the target of a hate campaign— including threats to torch his house —after a string of cops were sacked for corruption. Colleagues say Harper, 56, laughed it off, saying: “I had the IRA on my tail for years—so a few disgruntled people are not going to deter me from doing my job.” Now he’s facing the biggest test of his career—on the island of fear.
IT IS ALLEGED – He is very well known for his perverted abuse of young boys. A source spoke to one of his victims and he said about others who were present, and more important, who was supplying the children to him. The person bringing children for him to abuse is Sir Jimmy Saville. He was seen by the witness, victim, taking young boys onboard Heaths yacht the morning cloud when they were at party conference. Saville is known for supplying a number of high profile MP’s with children for them to sexually abuse.
A report into child abuse in Jersey care homes says children were too frightened to complain and when they did they were ignored.
The damning report also says children may still be at risk on the island.
The £23m inquiry found that children in Jersey 'do not have a voice - or at least one that is taken seriously or respected'.
The notorious Haut de la Garenne children's home which was at the centre of many of the allegations and was dubbed the 'house of horrors', should be demolished, the report recommends.
The inquiry, chaired by Frances Oldham QC, said: 'We believe that the buildings at Haut de la Garenne are a reminder of an unhappy past or shameful history for many people.'
The three-year inquiry says there were persistent failures in the care system, there was no will to invest in resources and there was a lack of leadership.
The inquiry also found failings still existed in Jersey's child care systems and that 'lessons of the past have not been learned'.
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It continues: 'It was 'deplorable that the States of Jersey has failed to understand its role as a corporate parent and that.. the island's most vulnerable children were not give sufficient priority.'
The inquiry said persistent failures existed at all levels in the management, operation and governance of children's homes in Jersey for decades.
The inquiry also found that some children were put into care without a lawful basis, including for petty theft and for being rude.
It found that, once in care, children, some of whom suffered physical and sexual abuse, were 'effectively abandoned in the care system' and 'left powerless for decades'.
There has been a long absence of political and professional will in Jersey to monitor care standards in Jersey, the report says.
It goes on: 'That there were failings is not in dispute.
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'Those failings impacted on children already at a disadvantage, whether through family circumstances, a crime committed against the child or even a crime committed by the child.
'For many children who were removed from home situations deemed harmful or unsatisfactory, the States of Jersey proved to be an ineffectual and neglectful substitute parent.'
The inquiry followed a police investigation in 2007 which established 151 named offenders and 192 victims, but led to only seven successful prosecutions.
The inquiry panel investigated the running of the island's care homes between 1945 and 2015 when, on a visit to the Greenfields Centre home it reported: 'We were concerned about the prison like nature of the facility and by the regime, as described to us at the time of our visit.'
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The report said some aspects of Jersey's children's services were still 'not fully fit for purpose,' though panel members had met many people now committed to the island's children.
Ms Oldham said: 'In summary, over many decades, there were persistent failures in the governance, management and operation of children's homes in Jersey. Failings were at all levels.
'There was no political interest in defining and promoting standards of care and performance in residential care and no will to invest the resources required in child care services.
'Unsuitable people were appointed to management roles, often on the basis of local connections, lacked the leadership skills to manage and raise practice standards and had little up-to-date knowledge of child care theory and practice.'
The report recommended the appointment of a Commissioner for Children and a Children's Rights Officer. It also called for more regular inspection of homes and better staff recruitment.
It also criticised an expression - 'The Jersey Way' - heard often during the inquiry, which was something at best described as the upholding of tradition, at worst the protection of powerful interests.
Ms Oldham called on the Jersey community to consider ways of eradicating the negative interpretation of the phrase.