DEPUTY Peter Roffey is living in a dream world if he thinks there has been no systemic abuse in Guernsey care homes, said one former Greenfield’s resident.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, was at the children’s home from November 1975 to February 1976 and said that he was once slapped so hard his eardrum was perforated.
‘How can Peter Roffey say there is no abuse in Guernsey homes? I can tell him right now there must have been. In those days places like that were swarming with paedophiles and a lot of us were treated like animals.’
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Peadophiles riddled the care system in all the decades mentioned in the press and the UK is at the heart of most of them prison officers and ex-military, scouts and clergy, case in point: at the Medomsley Detention centre in the northeast of England where rapes sexual abuse physical and mental torture were the norm please see: http://justice4survivors.org for full stories and details. Thank you Oh and sack all those responsible for hiding the abuses in Jersey.
I just hope that everything is brought into the public domain.
It is so necessary that all the unfortunate affected people come forward and relate their sad stories to an advocate or a senior police officer so that the perpetrators of these vile crimes against innocent children are brought to justice irrespective of their age.
I was in Greenfields twice between 1935 and 1938 and, yes, they were quick to slap you into line and maybe the punishment was overdone, certainly by today’s standards. But too much corporal punishment does a great deal less harm to adolescents than too little or none at all; just look around you today! None of us became ‘nice little earners’ for the judiciary who have a vested interest in the proliferation of crime; and, juvenile suicides were unheard of.
And, mark this, most (innocent) juveniles evaded corporal punishment because of the deterrent value of the generous punishment we deserving ones received.
As for punctured eardrums - I got one from a doctor’s syringe but I didn’t write to the newspapers about it: accidents are for happening.
One last thing, the Greenfields staff did not sexually abuse anyone in my time; they themselves had been brought up within strict supervisory surroundings.
Brain Harper “staff did not sexually abuse anyone in my time; You would not have know if it was hidden so that statement is null.
I also notice only a brief mention of the sexual abuse. Why? was that?
However I went through some of the worst sexual physical and mental abuse the psychologist have ever encountered and still I agree with you about punishment. and two years mandatory national service would see to all the big boy wanna be men chavs but if you show the young people that violence works, then its not surprising that they will think it should work for them too.
Did I ever tell you of the time I got the cane at a certain school in Guernsey for being a bad lad?.Never did me any harm,and I made sure I did’nt come back for a second helping.Sexual abuse of children in my opinion should warrant the maximum possible sentance without exception.