Lace Neil Singer
05-28-2008, 12:35 AM
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/7269117.stm
I don't know how many people in America have heard of this case, but over here it's a pretty big case with abuse and murder on a large scale. It centres on the Haut de la Garenne in Jersey; a former children's home on top of a hill near the coastline with evidence of abuse, torture and murder going back at least 30 years.
More than 160 people have come forward to report sickening cases of rape, torture and beatings that happened during the 30 years at the home that are being investigated by police. The police are under no doubt at all that all these accounts are true. The victims speak of being drugged with valium, of staff organising parties to which people from the outside were invited in order to physically and sexually abuse the children in hidden underground rooms. A bricked up cellar was broken into by police, and a former member of staff speaks of another room that will also be investigated.
Children sent to the Haut de la Garenne home were children taken into care, either due to unfit parents or cuz of criminal behaviour. Once they entered those walls, any allegations of abuse were automatically disbelieved. Children soon learned to suffer in silence, and if a friend of theirs went missing, that too was not to be talked about. Search dogs have since the investigation discovered fragments of bone from the murdered children, and soon perhaps the entire story of the house of horror will be uncovered; altho a lot of the perpetrators have in all likelyhood already gone to their own graves.
I don't know how many people in America have heard of this case, but over here it's a pretty big case with abuse and murder on a large scale. It centres on the Haut de la Garenne in Jersey; a former children's home on top of a hill near the coastline with evidence of abuse, torture and murder going back at least 30 years.
More than 160 people have come forward to report sickening cases of rape, torture and beatings that happened during the 30 years at the home that are being investigated by police. The police are under no doubt at all that all these accounts are true. The victims speak of being drugged with valium, of staff organising parties to which people from the outside were invited in order to physically and sexually abuse the children in hidden underground rooms. A bricked up cellar was broken into by police, and a former member of staff speaks of another room that will also be investigated.
Children sent to the Haut de la Garenne home were children taken into care, either due to unfit parents or cuz of criminal behaviour. Once they entered those walls, any allegations of abuse were automatically disbelieved. Children soon learned to suffer in silence, and if a friend of theirs went missing, that too was not to be talked about. Search dogs have since the investigation discovered fragments of bone from the murdered children, and soon perhaps the entire story of the house of horror will be uncovered; altho a lot of the perpetrators have in all likelyhood already gone to their own graves.