Generations of abuse

Friday 26th March 2010, 3:00PM GMT.

Education Minister James Reed, Health Minister Anne Pryke and Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand listen to the findings

SERIOUS failings by Jersey’s child protection services left a very vulnerable child prey to paedophiles in a home characterised by shocking abuse and neglect, an independent report reveals today.

The serious case review – the first such investigation to be carried out in Jersey – made 32 recommendations and found that social services, the courts, the police, schools and other agencies failed the child for 12 years.

Despite regular contact with many support services during that time, the review catalogues their failure to break an appalling cycle of abuse which destroyed a family over two generations.

The review was instigated after the children were finally removed permanently from the care of their mother by the Royal Court in 2008. At those hearings, Advocate Tim Hanson, who represented the children, called for the serious case review.

• Full report in Friday’s Jersey Evening Post

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