Graves at Children's Home Turn Out to Be TV Set

Police press on in hunt for remains
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 5, 2008 8:09 AM CST
Graves at Children's Home Turn Out to Be TV Set
Partial view of the basement of the children's home "Les hauts de la Garenne" in Saint-Martin, on the Channel Island of Jersey, Sunday March 2, 2008, on the site at the centre of abuse and ill treatment claims. Former residents have alleged they were systematically abused and ill-treated over a 40-year...   (Associated Press)

British police searching for bodies near a former children's home discovered a field full of shallow graves—only to learn it had been a mock graveyard for a TV show, the Daily Telegraph reports. The infuriated police chief "put his head in his hands and uttered a few choice words" after being told workers for a BBC detective series dug the graves, said a source.

Teams using high-tech equipment will continue searching the building and its grounds. Reports of horrific child abuse at the home over decades have already led investigators to a skull and to four bricked-up rooms police suspect were torture chambers. Some of the 160 victims who have come forward say they knew of children there who vanished, never to be seen again. (More Haut de la Garenne stories.)

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