View across the Outer Harbour of Stornoway

Thursday 13 November 2008

Evening notes

My remarks regarding Facebook relate to the consequences on my private life of being on there, rather than the experience itself. That was not unique to Facebook, it is something that has plagued me throughout my stint on AOL (since April 2004).

On the subject of child abuse, the Austrian man (Josef Pritzl) who made his own daughter pregnant 7 times over will stand trial. Part of the indictment is the allegation that he killed one of the babies fathered by him. Pritzl kept his daughter incarcerated in a cellar at home for 24 years.

Yesterday, news emerged that the Jersey prosecuting authorities have decided that there is no case to answer regarding the children's home Haute de la Garenne. Earlier this year, this former home made world headlines after bones were found in sealed off sections of its cellars. It has been decided that those finds do not constitute murder. Investigations into alleged abuse are on-going.

2 comments:

  1. Its heartbreaking thinking about all these dear children and how they have suffered at the hands of others ..love Jan xx

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  2. My gosh...how do the authorities explain the bones sealed up in the walls, etc? They just appeared there out of the sky? May those dear little ones rest in peace. Linda in Washington state

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