Daughter Of Jersey Care Home Boss Claims Father Subjected Her To Rape Ordeal
The boss of the Jersey care “home of horror” was a paedophile who raped his own foster daughter, according to sensational new claims.
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The boss of the Jersey care “home of horror” was a paedophile who raped his own foster daughter, according to sensational new claims.
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A TEENAGER yesterday claimed she was brutally abused in a residential school’s punishment room. Ashley Johnston, now 16, said she endured 12 weeks of torment at the Good Shepherd Centre.
She claimed she was kept for up to two days at a time in the punishment room – dubbed the “zombie room” by the girl residents.
The Record revealed yesterday that police were investigating amid allegations the punishment room was used for torturing girls as young as 12.
We received a flood of calls from former residents and their parents in response to our story.
One of the worst cases was that of Ashley, who was sent to the school in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, by the children’s panel when she went off the rails after her mum’s death two years ago.
She said she was punched in the face and body, kicked, sat on and dragged across the floor by her hair in a shocking catalogue of attacks.
She said: “I couldn’t believe it when I saw the Record finally exposing the abuse that has been going on for years and it has always been covered up.
“I was assaulted by staff at least three times and spent two days at a time in the punishment room, which we used to call the zombie room because you were beaten and left to rot.
“While I was in there, staff would come in and goad me and say really terrible things like my dad would commit suicide because I was so bad and that no wonder I wasn’t wanted.
“They said these things to see if I would get angry. It was mental torture as well as physical.”
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