Jersey child abuse victims ‘vindicated’ as ex-carer jailed

VICTIMS of alleged child abuse in Jersey said yesterday they were vindicated after a former carer was jailed for two years for a string of sex attacks.

Gordon Wateridge, 78, nicknamed “the Perv” by his victims, repeatedly sexually assaulted three teenagers at children’s home Haut de la Garenne during the 1970s.

Wateridge, of St Clement, Jersey, was the first person to be charged in connection with the multimillion-pound abuse investigation on the island.

His jailing intensified calls for further action to investigate other alleged abuses.