Islanders voice abuse concerns
Tuesday 26th February 2008, 2:29PM GMT.
A police officer patrols the grounds around the Haut de la Garenne youth hostel yesterday. (0541378)
THE disturbing discovery of a child’s remains at the former Haut de la Garenne children’s home in Jersey prompted many phone calls to the Guernsey Press yesterday.
Members of the public, from on and off the island, raised concerns of what they called a consistent lack of information and statistics on child abuse, with many saying they knew of cases in Guernsey where the perpetrator had never been caught, free to abuse again.
While they felt the disclosure of the information was in the public interest, they also feared it was a closed-door situation, with the truth covered up for decades by the powers-that-be.
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there must be no hiding place for the scum who covered up
this evil act. ifor one wil never again set foot on your islands
and lets hope most of the Uk feel the same, may god forgive you, i wont ever
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You are ill-advised to tar the Islands and their collective inhabitants with the same brush – the responsibility lies in the hands of a small percentage, who should be brought to justice. However, if making comments, you are strongly advised to make use of properly constructed English, capital letters and punctuation.
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agree with JG Harding. Whilst there are admittedly more weirdo’s per capita in Guersney than any place on on on Earth, comments like this will put an already struggling island into complete doom.
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