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| Jersey police uncover second room | Jersey police uncover second room |
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| Police investigating suspected child abuse in Jersey have broken into a second underground chamber at a former children's home. | Police investigating suspected child abuse in Jersey have broken into a second underground chamber at a former children's home. |
| A police spokesman said a sniffer dog, trained to search for signs of human remains, had been lifted down into the room at Haut de la Garenne. | |
| It is not yet known what, if anything, the officers discovered. | |
| More than 100 people claim to have been abused at Haut de la Garenne during the 1970s and 1980s. | More than 100 people claim to have been abused at Haut de la Garenne during the 1970s and 1980s. |
| A spokesman for Jersey police said earlier: "One of the dogs will go in first, through a hole in the ceiling. A forensic team will go in afterwards, depending on if anything is found. | |
| "Obviously, if he finds something significant, then that slows down the whole operation." | "Obviously, if he finds something significant, then that slows down the whole operation." |
| She said the cellar room, which is no more than 5ft high, is three times the size of the first room, where police found a large concrete bath and another item, believed to be shackles. | |
| There may be up to four rooms to be excavated, all of which were bricked up from the outside and none of which appeared in original plans of the building. | There may be up to four rooms to be excavated, all of which were bricked up from the outside and none of which appeared in original plans of the building. |