‘Child abuse? Not when we were there’

Saturday 1st March 2008, 9:37AM GMT.

Pete Carre, who as a teenager in the 60s spent two years at former children’s home Haut de la Garenne, said the reports of abuse paint a vastly different picture to his experience of the staff and facility. (Picture by John O’Neill, 0543454)

A MAN who lived at the former children’s home at the centre of Jersey’s abuse investigation has told of his shock at the allegations.

Pete Carre, who lived at Haut de la Garenne from 1963 to 1965, claimed no abuse had taken place during his time at the home.

Born in Guernsey, Mr Carre was moved to the home at the age of 15, returning to Guernsey two years later. ‘The home that is being described in the media sounds like a completely different place to the one that I lived at,’ he said.
‘If kids had been abused when I was there someone would have noticed it.