Carl Denning, now 49 and living in north Wales, spent many of his childhood years in the Guernsey and Jersey care systems. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0544034)
ABUSE has been inflicted on children at States-run care homes in Guernsey, according to a former resident of now-infamous Haut de la Garenne.
Guernsey-born Carl Denning, 49, was sent to the former Jersey children’s home now at the centre of a huge police investigation to get him away from domestic abuse at home. He claims that when he later stayed in Guernsey care homes, abuse continued to be part of both his life and that of other children.
Regularly beaten, starved and ignored at home, five-year-old Carl resorted to truancy and thieving, which led to his being sent to Haut de la Garenne. He was to remain there until he took his 11-plus.
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