Man charged over Jersey 'abuse'
A man has been charged over allegations of abuse at a former Jersey children's home, police have said.
Michael Aubin, 45, who was born in Jersey and lives in Southampton, is accused of offences relating to the Haut de la Garenne home.
He will appear before Jersey magistrates on Monday 2 June.
Mr Aubin was arrested in the UK by officers from the island on Thursday 29 May. States of Jersey Police said that further charges may follow.
No plea
In a statement, the force said that the allegations relate to incidents from 1977 to 1980.
Mr Aubin has been charged with one serious offence against a male child and two counts of indecent assault against separate male children.
Two other men have been charged as part of the inquiry into alleged abuse in Jersey.
Gordon Claude Wateridge, 76, originally from Croydon, south London, is charged with three offences of indecent assault on girls under 16 between 1969 and 1979.
Claude Donnelly, 68, of St Brelade, on Jersey - arrested as part of the wider inquiry - is charged with raping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl on Jersey between 1971 and 1974.
Neither have so far entered a plea.
In a separate investigation, police now say that they have proved "beyond doubt" that the home contained the remains of more than one child.
Police have recovered 10 teeth and at least 30 charred fragments of human bone suggesting the victims' bodies may have been incinerated in a furnace.
Officers say the position of the teeth suggest they ended up in the cellar sometime after the 1940s, but they have yet to discover how or why the fragments got there.
Tests to establish the ages of the people the teeth belonged to have been inconclusive.
Shackles
A covert investigation into abuse of children at the home began in 2006 following allegations by former residents.
In February 2008, acting on information from their investigation, they began an exploratory search of the home.
Later that month, police said they had made "significant" finds in the building's cellar - understood to be a set of shackles and a shallow concrete bath.
Following the discoveries, about 160 people came forward to say they had been abused at the home, with allegations relating to the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
Some described subterranean punishment rooms where they had allegedly been drugged, raped and beaten.
As well as shackles and the bath, investigators uncovered a wooden post scrawled with the message: "I've been bad for years and years".