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Child abuse and suspected murder in Jersey Channel Islands.

By © Linda Corby

 

Jersey Channel Islands scandal sweeping their dirty linen under the carpet and doing cover ups?

If you havent heard about the child abuse in Jersey Channel Islands I would be very surprised but here is a link to the background and latest information on it for you click here:

Jerseys Chief Minister Frank Walker was caught out lying last night when being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on BBC Two's Newsnight.  I watched the program and was amazed at the way Chief Minister Frank Walker actually thought he could get away with this, especially as everyone clearly heard what he had said. 

Maybe Jerseys Chief Minister Frank Walker is so used to being cosseted by the local media within the Island who have a strong tendency in the opinion of a lot of islanders to come down on the side of the Establishment click run by Chief Minister Frank Walker that he thought his lying would not be reported on.  I live in Jersey and have often seen examples of this in our media, just a slant put on events that always appear to favour the Chief Minister Frank Walkers Establishment clicks point of view.  This entire Establishment click appear to be interested in is Jerseys finance and obviously Jersey having a clean reputation is very important to the financial sector. After hearing Chief Minister Frank Walkers comments, he obviously to my mind finds this more important than any child abuse or child, childrens murders.  Click her to judge for yourself:

If you speak to anyone off the record in Jersey there are not many who wouldnt say if being honest that you will not get far if you buck the system and are outspoken about the real things that go on in the island.  All the media are on licences which have to be renewed.  The majority of people employed by the states of jersey finance sector come from outside the island, and if they dont do as they are told will inevitably get the sack and consequently their qualifications to live in the island.  Just how many of them do you think wouldnt tow the line and turn a blind eye to wrong doings taking into account the huge salaries that some of them are on,  and the lifestyle that this enables them to have? Well one did a report that the Establishment didnt like Stephen Sharp and guess what, you got it he was got rid of!

Now I was in Jersey from the early 1960s and have heard many of the horror stories which have been going around on the Jersey Grapevine as have many long standing or Jersey born residents.

I can tell you for a fact that it isnt only the children in the Jersey care homes that have been subject to criminal offences that have not been investigated. When my adoptive mother broke my nose and battered me on one occasion a friend of mine Shirley reported it to the authorities who promptly told her to mind her own business and refused to take a statement from her or look into the incident further.

A friend of mine had a horrendous criminal offence committed against her, a serious one in my opinion and I dont say that lightly. I am not at liberty to tell you what this was at this moment in time, but I have told her she should go and tell Senator Stuart Syvret and have it investigated, until she does I can do nothing more, as I gave her my word that I wouldnt, but what I can say is that I reported it to the Police at the time and they didnt want to know about it, and they took no action what-so-ever. I am a firsthand witness to the facts of what happened to her and it is something I have had to live with, the horror she went through was just gross beyond words, and my heart bleeds for her and the loss she endured at the time!

One of the big problems is the way relevant information and documents have a habit of disappearing or not being found when needed in Jersey.  When records have vanished how can a real investigation on anything be completed properly?

The Establishment click of Jersey need to wake up to the fact that while the outside world isnt part of the Jersey Goal fish bowl and although while within the Goal Fish bowl they might well be big fish, when it comes to the Goal fish bowl being put into the sea of the big wide world they are no longer big fish and things like media reporting in the big wide world doesnt require a licence from them to publish what goes on in the world, Jersey included!

 

 

The overriding concern of the establishment is the image of Jersey - to prosecute people would be apocalyptically bad for the Jersey establishment."

Senator Stuart Syvret  The former health minister for Jersey produced a "top-secret report"  in which he has claimed there was evidence of senior government figures covering up sexual abuse in the wake of a care home scandal, he has claimed there is a culture of cover-up and concealment on the island and said the report is evidence of that.

You will find Senator Stuart Syvrets blog a real eye opener!  He doesnt pull his punches, refreshing in an island where a lot of people have been afraid to speak out for far too long! Click here to read his blog:

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3437788.ece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_4670000/newsid_4679900/4679986.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&news=1&bbcws=1