EDUCATION Minister Mike Vibert has refuted accusations that the department was involved in covering up child abuse.
Speaking to the media on the steps of the States Chamber yesterday, Senator Mike Vibert said that his department protects children at the highest level.
‘I regret that there was a historic case of child abuse at one of the Island’s schools ‘Victoria College’, which was uncovered in the early 1990s before I was elected as a States member.
‘Once reported to the Education Department of the day this incidence of abuse was taken seriously. The man responsible was successfully prosecuted and subsequently imprisoned.’
The Education Minister made the statement after Senator Stuart Syvret gave copies of a leaked report into the Jervis Dykes child abuse scandal to the media yesterday.
Article posted on 27th February, 2008 - 12.00am
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