Ebook: Nobody came: the appalling true story of brothers cruelly abused in a Jersey care home
Author: Garner Robbie, Maguire Toni
- Tags: Adult child abuse victims--Jersey, Brothers--Institutional care--Jersey, Adult child abuse victims, Electronic books, Biographies, Garner Robbie -- Childhood and youth, Haut de la Garenne (Care home), Brothers -- Institutional care -- Jersey, Adult child abuse victims -- Jersey -- Biography, Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies -- Jersey
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- City: Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies;Jersey
- Language: English
- epub
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 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...