Jersey’s care homes decades of abuse examined in report

‘Decades of slavery, bullying and abuse have been revealed in a report into the care system in Jersey.
One victim told how “live electrical wires” were used to abuse children.
The police investigation began in 2006 but the apparent discovery in 2008 of part of a child’s skull at a care home made headlines around the world.
The skull fragment was later found to be coconut shell, however the intense scrutiny of the Jersey care system brought forward hundreds of victims.
Gifford Aubin was at the care home Haut de la Garenne in the 1950s, he told the BBC: “It involved putting live electrical wires on your legs, hitting you with a pre-war stick with a metal end.”
Jersey police began investigating alleged child abuse at Haut de la Garenne in 2006, following allegations dating from the 1960s.’
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