The former Health Minister of Jersey has released a confidential report into child abuse in Jersey which he says was suppressed by the authorities.
Senator Stuart Syvret handed out the official report into the Jervis Dykes affair to national and international media at a press conference in the Royal Square today.
Jervis Dykes was a teacher at Victoria College who was convicted for sex abuse offences.
Senator Syvret obtained the report when he was President of Health and Social Services in 2000. He calls the document "apocalyptic and appalling".
But he did not raise the report in the States - he says instead he gave a copy to newspaper journalists who decided not to publish it.
Since then it has remained hidden.
Senator Syvret has been running a media campaign since the discovery of a body at Haut de la Garenne at the weekend. He first raised his concerns about child abuse in the island early last year, eight years after he took over at Health and Social Services.
This morning he denied his motivation in releasing the report now is to bring down Jersey's government.
If Syvret obtained the document in 2000, why didn't he make it public there and then?
Let's say he tried and failed, why not try again last year when he brought the issue to the fore?
Senator Stuart Syvret Releases Child Abuse Report
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