Nobody Came

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A harrowing account by one of the survivors of the Haut de la Garenne childrens home Robbie was born in Jersey fifty six years ago. When he was five his mother placed him & 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 fathers suicide attempt by hanging. The children were separated; Robbie & 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 & his three year old brother were bewildered & 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 & 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. & of course there were the children who simply disappeared. Gone somewhere better Robbie was told. After all in a childrens home there was a lot of coming & going. Today Robbie holds down a full time job & looks after his brother who he has loved & cared for since they were those little frightened boys. He wonders what happened to his friends who disappeared.