Syvret asks Straw for UK judges

Published 4/3/2008
By Elaine Byrne

VICTIMS of child abuse will not get justice in Jersey unless independent judges and prosecutors are brought over, according to Senator Stuart Syvret.

The former Health Minister is urging Jack Straw, the UK’s Secretary of State for Justice, to appoint legal representatives to deal with the ‘child protection crisis’.

At the weekend the Senator distributed confidential documents claiming that orphans were abused at a smaller care home in Jersey in the 1980s.

The report details ‘gross acts of physical and psychological abuse’ at the home.

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