Right now, forensics experts are investigating something that sounds eerily like the survival horror video game Rule of Rose. At Haut de la Garenne, a children's home on Jersey island, (part of the channel islands, located between southern Great Britain and Northern France) they are unearthing a number of bits and pieces that point toward a rather horrific past.

The investigation actually started two years ago when past residents started to come forward with stories of abuse. Investigators started to make headway in February of this year when a skull fragment was found by a dog (Eddie, not Brown) through a layer of concrete. Since then they have also found milk teeth, blood on a large, concrete, bath-like structure, a "trap door" to the cellar, animal bones buried outside and several other key outdoor locations, and underground "punishment rooms."

Over 100 people have come forward with stories of abuse, implicating over 40 suspects. Apparently the island's culture of secrecy and their "fears of damaging the island's reputation" has played a large part in the delay in bringing this story to light. Jersey senator Stuart Syvret, also a former health and social security minister, started digging up allegations of child abuse going back to the 1940s. The same inhuman "treatments" used back then seem to have been upheld throughout the decades.

Much like Rule of Rose, I don't think this is going to have a happy ending.

[thanks to my wife for the tip]