UNITED KINGDOM
Jersey Evening Post
ISLANDERS who report abuse can be confident that their complaints will be taken seriously, investigated and prosecuted professionally, Jersey’s Attorney General has said in the wake of the findings of the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry.
Advocate Robert MacRae – the Island’s chief prosecutor – has said that his department is committed to improving the Island’s criminal justice system.
He added that victims must be encouraged to report abuse and that, when they did, their allegations would be taken seriously and ‘all possible steps taken to bring offenders to justice’.
His comments come after the States police confirmed that they had received two further complaints about abuse, bringing the total number reported to the force since the release of the report on Monday to four.
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