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A harrowing account by one of the survivors of the Haut de la Garenne children’s home
Robbie was born in Jersey fifty six years ago. When he was five his mother placed him and his three siblings in care. They were collected from their home by the police. It was the same day that the children had witnessed their father's suicide attempt by hanging. The children were separated; Robbie and his younger brother were taken to The Sacre Coeur, an orphanage for children under twelve, while their elder brother was placed in Haut de la Garenne. Their baby sister disappeared. The boys never saw her again.
Robbie and his three year old brother were bewildered and frightened by their surroundings. Their world as they had known it had disintegrated in just a matter of a few hours. They had sobbed as their eldest brother was taken away from them; they had never been apart before.
Sacre Coeur, run by nuns, was a place where unimaginable abuse was committed against defenceless small children. The nuns gave them no explanation. Just gave them their scratchy uniforms and showed them their dormitory. They had joined the tribe of lost boys; the ones who no one cared about.
The two boys were eventually transferred to Haut de la Garenne, a place where sick twisted minds had devised even more tortuous methods of sexually abusing the helpless.
There were suicides there. One boy blew himself up by creeping into a bunker with a supply of butane gas. And of course there were the children who simply disappeared. Gone somewhere better Robbie was told. After all in a children's home there was a lot of coming and going.
Today Robbie holds down a full time job and looks after his brother who he has loved and cared for since they were those little frightened boys. He wonders what happened to his friends who disappeared.
About the Author
Robbie Garner was born in Jersey in the 1950s. After his father tragically comitted suicide he and his three siblings were sent to live in children’s homes.
Having spent twenty years in London, Toni Maguire now lives in Norfolk. She is the author of the No. 1 bestseller Don’t Tell Mummy and top 10 bestseller When Daddy Comes Home.
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This biography deals with very disturbing instances of abuse dealing with sexual, physical and emotional abuse and is a difficult read but a MUST read if lessons are to be learnt.
Told with dignity and incredible bravery the author is to be commended for bringing this appalling true story of how a family of brothers were cruelly abused and let down by the care system into the public domain.
Thankfully, there is now a police case against one of the abusers which will hopefully reveal the truth and justice will be served for his victims.
HEARTBREAKING
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READ
Then the Garners are transferred to Haut De La Garenne one by one, and we get a child's eye view of the place which does more to uncover what went on than any of the media reporting since the discovery of bones at the building a year ago.
The title of the book is right, nobody did arrive and give the children any help, and as such, they pull together as best they can in the face of such abuse, and the same applies to the payback meted out to one of the abusers - in which the author himself was not involved.
The bravest approach with this book was the lack of happy ending, as the book charts the fortunes of Garner's siblings and the friends he makes at the home, aside from three named kids and and the victims of the worst organised abuse in the home. It also marks the realistic lack of catharsis for the author when the home(s) hit the media and stir up his memories.
This won't be the last book about this case, given there is no closure to any proceedings or enquiries at the moment, but for a child's eye view it's definitely worth reading and will probably do better in paperback than this initial release for that reason.
Laila Bevan
Author of
"Stolen Childhood"
In all I had finished it in 24 hours because I couldn't put it down. Read more
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