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Sniffer dog hunts for bodies in Jersey care home

Police are hunting for more bodies at a former care home in Jersey where a child's skull was discovered yesterday.

A sniffer dog, previously used in the search for Madeleine McCann, helped to make the first discovery and is now being used in co-ordination with radar equipment to locate any more remains buried in the building’s foundations.

Police began searching the island's Youth Hostel, formerly the Haut de la Garenne home, four days ago as part of a investigation into alleged child abuse.

Telegraph

Floggings and rape... the dark secret within the walls of Jersey's abuse orphanage



Prison-like on its hilltop above Jersey's east coast, Haut de la Garenne must have seemed a frightening prospect to the children sent to live there.

And it seems that for many troubled youngsters, their fears were all too well founded.

Today it has been modernised and refurbished, but thousands of young residents must have quaked as they approached its austere Victorian walls.

DailyMail

Police on Jersey are now searching seven sites at a youth hostel after the discovery of the remains of a child. Skynews

Jersey care agencies probed

All care agencies in Jersey are being investigated for failing to act over alleged child abuse following the discovery of a youngster's remains at a children's home, police said.

Gazette

Jersey care home 'had shackles and trapdoor'

A trapdoor leading down to a windowless room holding a single chair, and shackles were discovered during the refurbishment of the care home at the centre of the Jersey child abuse scandal, it has been claimed.

The sinister findings were allegedly uncovered four years ago when the property Haut de la Garenne in the east of the island was converted into a youth hostel after lying empty for 18 years.

Telegraph

Jersey: New Chamber To Investigate

Jersey's Deputy Chief Police Officer Lenny Harper outlines the latest developments in the search of the former care home at Haut de la Garenne. Sky

'Possible suspects had positions of authority'

Figures connected to Jersey’s establishment are among those accused of abusing children in the Haut de la Garenne care home, the island’s police chief has revealed.

Chief Officer Graham Power said that because of the size of the island - which has a population of around 90,000 - it was “inevitable” that those in positions of power were implicated.

As well as people at the home, he said, there were allegations about outsiders who abused children living there.

Telegraph

Second body may have been discovered at former children's home
Police investigating claims of abuse at the Haut de la Garenne children's home in Jersey have entered a bricked up cellar - and a search dog with them immediately started barking.

The dog is trained to detect human remains.

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Guernsey link to abuse ‘cover-up’

CHILD abuse cover-ups have probably taken place in Guernsey, according to whistleblowing Jersey politician Stuart Syvret.

The claim came just hours after Senator Syvret, who was sacked from his post as health minister last autumn, publicly announced the names of individuals he believed had been involved in a Jersey abuse cover-up.

And it coincided with Guernsey’s Health and Social Services Department announcing that it, Education and Guernsey police were liaising, with the investigation team in Jersey to ensure any concerns about Guernsey children were responded to.

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Police make 'significant' finds at Jersey care home

Police officers work on the investigation at the Haut de la Garenne Youth Hostel near St. Martin in Jersey.

Police searching for more human remains at a former Jersey children's home where a child's skull was found said today they had discovered "a couple of finds of some significance".

Deputy police chief Lenny Harper said the objects uncovered in the basement of the Haut de la Garenne building, which he would not identify, helped "corroborate the accounts given by witnesses" in an inquiry into widespread allegations of child abuse. But he added that there were "no statements from people saying these items were used against them".

Harper said police had been told about the existence of a third underground room in the cellar but would be concentrating efforts on a first room, which the police gained access to yesterday and where the two items were found, at least until the end of the week.

Officers would not be attempting to enter the second room until the first had been cleared, he said.

Haut de la Garenne, now a youth hostel, is at the centre of a major child abuse investigation on the island. Police say there are 40 suspects and "well in excess" of 160 victims, going back to the 1960s.

Victims have claimed the underground rooms were used to abuse children.

Callers to a police hotline have detailed allegations of being drugged, beaten and raped at the home.

A sniffer dog gave an "extremely strong reaction" to an area in the first chamber when it was opened up yesterday, according to Harper.

The cellar is about 3.5 sq metres (37.6 sq feet) and 2.5m (8ft) high. Police are searching another five sites in and around the building, which was converted into a hostel after the home closed in 1986.

Police have revealed that people in "positions of authority in the public sector at the time of the alleged abuse" are among the suspects.

Harper said officers from within his force were being investigated in relation to how they had handled past complaints.

He said the police search at the site would take another several more weeks.

The island's former health and social services minister, Stuart Syvret, today repeated his allegations that child abuse on the island had been covered up.

"What these victims suffered – the abuse, the betrayals, the cover-ups and the concealment – proves the Jersey establishment spin to be the disgusting and festering pack of lies it is," he wrote on his blog.
guardian

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