Jersey victims want answers

[11 August 2008]

Lawyers for the victims of abuse at a Jersey children's home are demanding to know why more people have not been charged.

Three people have been charged in connection with the abuse inquiry, and some more arrests have been made since the last person was charged in May. There are more than 80 suspects in the inquiry. Lawyer Philip Sinel has said that "known perpetrators are not being arrested, let alone prosecuted." Sinel has said that the effect this is having on his clients is devastating. He said: "My clients were severely damaged as children; accordingly they are hurt, scared and scarred. A failure to prosecute and convict would be the ultimate betrayal of them by the Government. Approximately 100 people have alleged abuse on Jersey between the 1960s and 1986. Police searched the former children's home Haut de la Garenne, and have so far found 65 milk teeth and more than 100 bone fragments.

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