‘Nobody ever listens to children in care’
Monday 3rd March 2008, 2:30PM GMT.
For Deputy Dave Jones, a childhood in care 50 years ago meant a life punctuated at the time by sustained periods of terror.
HOUSING minister Dave Jones, who spent much of his childhood in care, says that the allegation of child abuse in Jersey has a ‘horrific inevitability about it’.
More than 160 people have claimed they were abused while living at former children’s home Haut de la Garenne. Deputy Jones said the trauma of living in a similar home in the UK was to blame for the death of both his sisters.
Writing on the Guernsey Press’s Editors’ Blog on www.thisisguernsey.com, Deputy Jones said: ‘I spent 13 wretched years in care in the 50s and 60s. Boys’ homes in those days were not for the faint-hearted and what took place through those years has had a profound effect on me ever since.
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…and the same goes for those abused by religious orders in the Institutions in Ireland. They were called liars.
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Sadly, this goes back to the war and post-war years when so many children were sent to religous institutions in Australia and Canada to name but two.
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