THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE JERSEY CASE; How  SRA hunters used the British Media to hoax a nation.

Column One
What they First Claimed

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What it actually turned out to be

Many pieces of bone were found, most of which were clearly animal bones. Several fragments could have been from humans and were later dated scientifcally to 1470-1670 and 1650-1950.

According to one report, this means the dog had barked in six places.

• 1 The fragment of skull really was just an old piece of coconut shell
  
• 2 The shackles found are really just bits of rusty metal (possibly a bed spring)
  
• 3 There was no blood in the cellar, which wasn't a cellar anyway, and the bath hadn't been used since 1920
  
• 4 Of 170 pieces of bone found, only 3 were human, and 2 of them dated 1470-1670 and 1650-1950, well before the scope of the allegations police were investigating.
  
• 5 The secret underground burial chambers were just holes in the ground

How to Make a Child Abuse Scare (And then there were none...........)

RECIPE FOR SCAREMONGERING:

What you need are plenty of “victims”, claims of an organised child abuse ring including the rich and powerful, an institutional location with a history of abuse to spice the pot, and a crusading policeman who believes it could be the crime of the century......Oh, and a lot of cash. In this case, £20 million seemed a trifle.

So, given that only one conviction of a single care worker for the lowly crime of indecent assault has resulted from the Haute De La Garenne sex ring investigation on Jersey, how come we were treated to acres of coverage of the excavation of the home? Why were we told bodies, blood, shackles, teeth, and a child's skull had been found?

Why was so much cash spent on an investigation labelled

'... one of the worst policing fiascos of modern times, and those responsible need to be called to account.'

by Mick Gradwell  the detective who took over the investigation?

Let's have a quick look at what happened.

In 2006, former residents of the home made allegations of abuse experienced whilst living there decades previously. An investigation began.

In November 2007, the Jersey police announced that they now had 60 potential victims. From the police press release, it appears that these victims had come forward in response to appeals, many through a UK based helpline managed by the NSPCC. This is known as 'trawling'. Whenever any historical claims of abuse are made by victims the police trawl through all residents or inmates who attended the institution from years back. Sometimes to ensure wide coverage they have actually taken out display anouncements in local newspapers advertising for anyone affected to contact them. In past cases it has been shown that this can produce hundreds of complainants most of whom can then qualify to make claims for damages from the governments' Crime Fund.

Readers of this site will be aware that the NSPCC has a history of involvement in sensational cases where massive amounts of child abuse abuse is claimed but which the record shows result in very few actual proven cases. ( see: nspcc.htm )The Satanic Abuse Scare claims widely supported by the NSPCC in the 1990's are a case in point. As is the Children's Homes in North Wales investigation where 365 people initially faced allegations yet only 4 were eventually found to have been guilty).

The policeman in charge of the case said that one of the witnesses claimed to have seen residents being chased along corridors and leaping through a window, never to be seen again, and children hanging from trees in the garden. According to the press, this witness was later found to have alcohol problems and a history of psychotic fantasy. None of the witness's claims were true yet they were followed up as though true by the police.

So already we are seeing the same pattern on Jersey as we have seen in so many other cases, particularly those related to Satanic Ritual Abuse claims. Interested groups who are convinced that their worst fears have happened go looking for victims. Due to an historic redefinition of what abuse means (many practices that were common and officially approved in childrens homes just a few years ago are considered abusive now), and the fact that various groups are trawling to find them, “victims” cannot but appear.

The numbers of claimed victims are used to confirm the worst fears and investigations move up a notch and increased resources are poured into the case.

So, the grounds of the former home was dug up, an unlicensed sniffer dog and handler (who had previously made his name on the Madelein McCann case) was employed at a cost of over 90,000 (yes folks that's ninety thousand pounds for one dog and one man) to help determine where the bodies were, and the press were treated to a lot of very sensational briefings.

What really made this case take off in the public arena was the claim that a child's skull had been found. What had actually been found was a small piece of material which was eventually pronounced after scientific analysis to be a piece of wood, most probably a shard of coconut!

But the police briefed the press this way:

“what appears to be potential remains of a child have been recovered.”

and then the whole thing took off. The press had a field day with the coverage with this tiny fragment of then unconfirmed material which somehow turned into “..a child's skull,” and even “ parts of a child's skeleton,” and many more excesses. The press coverage becomes hysterical. Cellars become “underground chambers” , a twisted rusty bedspring becomes “shackles” .

With the eyes of the world on Jersey the case became a cause celebre to show the outside world that the British police would spare nothing to counteract the epidemic of child abuse. Costs for the investigation soared and included expensive meets at highly fashionable 50.00 a head London restaurants; Unnecessary stays in first class hotels and many other excesses. The public spectacle rolled on and observers were agog. £20 million later, and only one conviction for relatively minor (compared to the overall allegations) abuse has occurred. And this person had been arrested before all the digging took place! The Daily Mail gives an example of the sort of thing that happened behind the scenes to keep the story rolling:

“On May 2, Harper [the lead investigator] had also emailed three senior Jersey officials saying he now had proof that a second child had been buried at Haut de la Garenne: 'The bone fragments are from the skull of a child... The expert's initial findings are that the child died fairly recently - confirmation will mean that a homicide inquiry will have to [be] launched.' Last week, Harper and his supporter Syvret claimed this email was tampered with. But his former secretary, Vickie Ellis, has said in a police statement that she sent it exactly as he dictated it.” [Mail Online 4th October 2009]

Is this a case of the police “sexing up” the evidence to justify the now horrendous cost? The Magic £90,000.00 Sniffer Dog barked at a piece of coconut shell and the police ran with it?

Of course, with the police making these types of claims, we can see why the press bit again and again, yet few, if any showed any restraint in their reporting despite the press briefings being carefully worded so that the police could later claim they never said a murder had been committed. And more importantly only the Daily Mail has had the guts to report the actual conclusion to this story - all the other 'quality' British newspapers have left their readers with the untrue horrible first impressions they gave them about child murder taking place at Haute de la Garenne. The British Media NEVER apologise for getting it wrong.

In the end, the digging, the forensics, the press interest, the NSPCC helpline, all produced little but a rise in the hysteria which is grist to the mill of the British Child Scare Industry, but at least we now appear to have unearthed their standard formula for starting a child abuse scare and fooling millions of British people into thinking child abuse is endemic.

Of course we TOLD YOU THIS WOULD BE THE CASE when these horrifying allegations were first muted. We have been right in every such case. Not one but DOZENS of them throughout the past twenty years. This child-abuse witch-hunt has been going on for DECADES. It has been perpetrated repetitively by those in the vanguard of the Child Scare Industry to sieze more funding and more political influence. They say they need it to protect children. But we can't find any children who have been protected by the SRA myth nor the other sub-myths spawned by it. Surely the British Public cannot be so dim that they are going to continually allow these people to pull the wool over their eyes?

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The Upshot Of The Haute de la Garenne Case:

Historic Abuse Inquiry Ends With Just 7 Paltry Convictions

A wave of hysteria swept the island of Jersey. Reading the mainland press reports on it, you could be forgiven for believing that murder, child sacrifice, satanism, torture, sexual abuse, and organised paedophile rings, were rife at the now infamous Haute de la Garenne care home.

The island's most extensive abuse inquiry drew to a close this month with just seven (7) paltry convictions for common or garden assault and fiddling with children; and not all of these related to the care home but were included in the wider 'trawl' for perpetrators on the island.

You would have thought that “.....1,776 statements from 192 victims, identifying 151 alleged abusers.” (Source:) would have led to the unearthing of one of Europe's most dastardly paedophile rings; considering the sensational press releases and allegations made by the police before.

It appears that the original investigation was so hysterically handled that the authorities couldn't find any really serious abuse so kept the witch-hunt going throughout the island netting a handful of small-time abusers.

We are not suggesting that it's OK to abuse children, or that cases should not be investigated but you will see from our research on this case above that the press treated the public to emotive details as the inquiry progressed with (supposedly) parts of a child's skeleton found, and (supposedly) underground torture chambers revealed. Remember how the skull fragment turned out to be a piece of coconut and the so-called torture chamber was revealed as an ordinary cellar? Remember the speculation of networks, organised cover ups, kids leaping through windows to avoid their tormentors? None of which has ever been supported by any real evidence.

Once again, we find that a small number of people mistreating kids in care has been blown out of all proportion by interested groups who are convinced that they have stumbled upon proof of a ring of Witches and Satanists who are sacrificing children.

Due to the continuous tightening-up of the law by child welfare campaigners there has been an historic legal redefinition of what abuse means (many practices such as physical restraint and corporal punishment that were common and officially approved in childrens' homes, just a few years ago are now considered criminal child abuse). Almost everyone who has worked in a children's home in the past thirty years is trembling in their shoes in case a trawling operation like this one makes them vulnerable to prosecution for some misdemeanour which was common treatment in kids' homes at the time. The police trace children who lived at these homes and even advertise for victims in the local newspapers. The kids, now adults, can easily settle some old scores with the added plus of perhaps even claiming damages from the state in the process? Under these circumstances 'Victims' and 'Perpetrators' pop up aplenty once the witch-hunt starts.

The numbers of people who come forward with their stories are used to confirm the worst fears of the police and social services. Investigations move up a notch and increased resources are poured into the case which grows like topsy.

This case simply serves to illustrate that, as in the despicable Welsh Children's Home fiasco in the late 1990s (also a subtext of the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth) bizarre social work fantasies inaugurated a similar trawling operation resulting in 365 people being arrested, yet when all the hysteria died down there were only 4 actual convictions.

Whenever the police and children's charities go fishing, the result is misery for hundreds of innocent people put through the legal grinder. Oh, and publicity, fund raising opportunities, and career advancement opportunities for those involved.....

Will you be suckered again when the next scare comes along?

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A CHILD'S SKULL HAS BEEN FOUND!  The Jersey Satanic Ritual Abuse Case: Lenny Harper, Sarah Nelson and the Satan Hunters of Haut de la Garenne.

 'Richard Webster, author and Bob Woffinden investigative journalist are very well known apologists for accused adults who have spent many years rubbishing allegations of sexual abuse and accusing adult survivors of doing it for the money and of being criminals and psychiatric cases.' ....

 'Webster and Woffinden are part of what we would call the 'flying circus' who go round every single case trying to rubbish it or appear as so-called expert witnesses."

"Beast
Prowls Jersey
for Child Victims"

Six years On
Failures forgotten
the Politicians fall
for the same scare -
only this time it's not Satan; it's
SAVILLEMONSTER!

"An Independent inquiry is to examine claims of Jersey abuse. Claims that Sir Jimmy Savile abused girls at a children’s home in Jersey are to be examined by a new independent inquiry. One senior BBC presenter at the time said:

“I always thought he was a horrible man, quite frankly. We all knew he was up to something – we just didn’t know what”

It comes after revelations about the late TV presenter reawakened concerns about his visits to Haut de la Garenne. Four years ago, the home was the subject of a police investigation over allegations that it was at the centre of a paedophile ring. Lenny Harper, the officer who led the probe, said last month that while Savile’s name had come up there was not enough evidence to charge him.

Plans for the inquiry, which will look into claims of child abuse over several decades on Jersey, have been put forward by the island's government and will now be put to the vote in its parliament.

It will question victims and staff members as well as looking at how the government dealt with concerns about abuse, and whether allegations were dealt with impartially and free from political interference.

It is the tenth investigation to be set up following revelations about Savile’s alleged abuse at the BBC and at hospitals, and further claims about abuse at care homes in North Wales said to involve a senior Tory.

Meanwhile, a former social services director who led a 1990s inquiry into abuse at care homes in north Wales said that it was not told of allegations involving a senior Tory.

John Jillings said those named by victims had included staff members from the home but not well-known public figures or others who had taken them off to hotels, as has been suggested.

Mr Jillings, 78, said he could not recall claims about a senior Tory.

He said: “I am sure that that would have lodged in my mind and we would have wanted to investigate it had we known about it.”

Steve Messham, who claims that he was abused by the senior Tory, disputed Mr Jillings’s comments, saying he would have mentioned the allegations when he spoke to the inquiry.

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Witchhunt’ claims against Bryn Estyn are false, say care workers. Innocent care workers at the Bryn Estyn children’s home in North Wales have responded to the latest allegations and the new inquiries. Speaking on behalf of Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers, (FACT) solicitor Chris Saltrese, who represented falsely accused Bryn Estyn staff at the Waterhouse Tribunal said: “There is no truth in the allegations that Jimmy Savile or any other ‘people in high places’ were allowed to abuse boys at Bryn Estyn, or that staff were complicit in abuse. ANOTHER WILD GOOSE CHASE BY THE HYSTERICAL CHILD SCARE INDUSTRY When will the madness stop? Haut de La Garenne, the Jersey Satanic Ritual Child Abuse Case Exposed... By Adrian Michaelson I recently saw an episode of the comedy drama “Dangerous Davies.” A policeman went to a house where Asian kids had been seen visiting at odd hours. The owner was a pharmacist. Poking round the garden revealed a human skull. Refusing to call in the specialist investigators in order to keep the glory of this career making murder investigation, Dangerous' Inspector orders further digging and unearths a number of human skeletons. The pharmacist is arrested. It soon comes to light, through the efforts of our hero, Dangerous, that the pharmacist has been giving discrete advice to young Asians on contraception. The skeletons are revealed to be from a cholera plague pit in the middle ages. No crime, no murder, plenty of hassle for the chap arrested. Huge cost for the public. Still, it's just a comedy drama. Read on........  (Click on the image of Bryn Estyn above to see the BBC Newsnight documentary which gives the true story behind the North Wales Child Abuse Inquiry) “The problem is not that allegations were not followed up on evidence, but that the evidence for a large part of what was claimed to have occurred at Bryn Estyn, and accepted by the Waterhouse Tribunal, was false.” “The Waterhouse Tribunal was flawed, but not in the manner now suggested. It was flawed because there was already a presumption that alleged endemic abuse at the home was a fact.” “The Tribunal was not empowered to examine the safety of any criminal convictions which had preceded it. And in the case of Peter Howarth, the deputy head, this was a critical flaw. “As he died in prison during the Tribunal, he was never able to give evidence and appeal his conviction. “The Tribunal also declined to take evidence in respect of false allegations, the methods of police investigation and former residents who were supporting staff and were horrified at the way the former approved school was being portrayed in the media.” “The Jillings report was not published on legal advice because it was unsound. It was based not on official documentation but on narrative evidence of accusers. “When it was leaked to the press, a further round of speculative misinformation was circulated in the media which became the platform for the Waterhouse Tribunal.” “It should be noted that the allegations have been orchestrated by compensation claims both in respect of the CICA and far larger claims against local authorities. “There is a true story of Bryn Estyn. It can be read in the late Richard Webster’s meticulously researched book The Secret of Bryn Estyn and on his website still in existence here www.richardwebster.net.” “The Home Select Committee examined the broader issue of past abuse in children’s homes in 2002. Its report was highly critical of current police practices and found that miscarriages of justice had occurred. This report was shelved by the then Labour government. “While child abuse is horrific, so are false allegations and wrongful convictions. In fact these are more heinous, since these are an error of commission by the institutions of the state, rather than omission. “Until the relevant authorities and inquiries critically examine their own practices and assumptions, these witchhunts will continue to proliferate and further undermine the welfare of the country at large.” ENDS Editor’s note:  For further information please contact: Chris Saltrese at  chris@chrissaltese.co.uk - Tel: 01704 535512 Mobile: 07715455864 - www.chrissaltrese.co.uk FACT is a voluntary organisation set up in 2000 in response to the escalating number of historic police trawl investigations implicating innocent care workers and teachers and was supported by former Labour MP Claire Curtis-Thomas. www.factuk.org Archive: The Secret of Bryn Estyn – hard copies available from here: The Conduct of Investigations into Past Cases of Abuse in Children's Homes 31 October 2002 Report together with an Appendix, Proceedings of the Committee, and a Minutes of Evidence HC 836-I ISBN 0 21 500593 7  Click here to see; The Government’s response Click Here To See: