Jersey care home abuse victim: I was locked up, drugged, beaten and sexually abused
A victim of the Jersey care home of horror told today how she was drugged, beaten and sexually assaulted by staff as officials turned a blind eye when she begged for help.
The mother-of-two - known as Pamela - was given heavy doses of valium at Haut de la Garenne and sexually assaulted dozens of times between 1973 and 1975.
She described how children would cower in their beds while staff held drunken parties where they would stumble into the dormitories to select “weak” children to rape.
Depraved workers would offer cigarettes and alcohol to teenagers in return for sex acts - and rape was “rife” among both boys and girls, the woman claims.
Now aged 49, the victim described being locked naked in tiny 10 sq ft “punishment” cells for the smallest misdemeanour - often for days at a time.
Her revelations came as excavation work at the Haut de la Garenne was suspended for a structural survey to be carried out.
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