Deputy Jersey Police chief officer Lenny Harper.
GUERNSEY POLICE are investigating after they were forwarded a letter from Jersey Police alleging abuse in local care homes.
A former Jersey resident wrote to that island’s deputy chief officer, Lenny Harper, the detective leading the historic child abuse investigation at Haut de la Garenne in Jersey, making allegations that they had been abused about 20 years ago.
Yesterday, Supt Ian Morellec said he was in the process of dealing with the matter and that the letter chronicled ‘somebody’s upbringing in various care placements in Guernsey’. ‘We recognise that life was different all those years ago, [but] there are still aspects that need to be looked at as a criminal matter,’ he said.
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‘We recognise that life was different all those years ago,
Yeah you mean people were allowed to sexually abuse children in those days?
Supt Ian Morellec should be bloody well ashamed of those words. and be sacked for even thinking such stupid thoughts.
This guy needs to sit with some of us victims and repeat that.
Its about time! Having heard from reliable sources of the treatment of children in carehomes even now…staff who tried to stand up for these kids were shot down stating that if they ever complained then their housing liscence would be revolked!
I went to a local school with girls who were in care and were regulary ‘interfered with’. These girls of 14/15 would be washed in the bath or watched as they dressed. Because they had come from that abuse at home they were in the belief that this was normal or that it was useless to tell authority as who would believe them given their background. What a sad state of affairs.