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Author Topic: Jersey Care Home  (Read 128 times)
Milly Jones
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« on: 11:00:33, 09-03-2008 »

I'm horrified by the news of what has happened here.  Those poor children, probably already in a rejected or traumatised state when they arrived, being put in the "care" of an institution such as that.  Vulnerable and alone as they were, their despair must have been absolute, knowing that no help would ever be available to them and that they would not have been believed had they attempted to ask for it. 

I wonder how many other such places there are?  I hope the perpetrators of such sickening cruelty rot in hell.
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« Reply #1 on: 12:04:19, 09-03-2008 »

MJ, this is part of a gradual trickle of revelations which, in the long game, i'd suggest you can trace back to victorian repression and exploitation- a very nasty cult. The insidious bit is the way it infects 'families' as a compulsive and even normative behaviour. The story here is also about political cover-up, of whichm, as in the aforementioned 'families', there is a great deal.
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« Reply #2 on: 13:29:18, 09-03-2008 »

I haven't really wanted to read the Press reports about this, I find it so sickening that not a soul cared for these children, but there is one account in the papers from someone who was there in the 1940s (he is now 73) and who was tortured, so it's been going on for years.

Another thing which instantly springs to mind is - Jersey?  The Millionaires Island?  And this was going on?  A sense of disbelief.
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« Reply #3 on: 14:23:46, 09-03-2008 »

The investigation is going to take a long time, why do we need daily updates with very little news to add?

OK, the publcity has meant a lot of former inmates hearing about it offering evidence etc.

But it's not as if it's the only home where abuse took place. Charles Dickens suggested over 100 years ago that abuse was common in homes. The situation has been tolerated by the country as a whole for decades but cover ups were also tolerated and children were always too ashamed or frightened to report anything.

Events at Jersey might mean reports coming in about dozens of homes around the country, how will the police cope?

Who is guilty, not just the perpetrators. Same with domestic staff of the nobility, everyone knew it was going on, so who was guilty?

Some reporters are starting to ridicule the chief in charge of the Jersey enquiry, about the way he's handling the investigation and comments he makes.

I read somewhere about previous use of the building where the Jersey home is, about rubble 'imported' by builders and that the child's skull may have come in with the rubble......
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« Reply #4 on: 09:01:32, 10-03-2008 »

I think we have to be cautious - the press always make things as dramatic as they can - but what I've heard sounds quite appalling, even allowing for the fact that what is called abuse now didn't count as abuse then. Lots of cruelty in ordinary schools was ignored until quite recently. I knew someone once who had worked in boys' borstals and care homes, and she had terrible tales to tell, but no-one did anything about it then. My brother's public school in the 50s was pretty vicious.
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