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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/pair-guilty-of-jersey-home-assaults.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Husband and wife Anthony and Morag Jordan were convicted of a series of assaults at a children's home on Jersey" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-pair-guilty-of-jersey-home-assaults.jpg" alt="Husband and wife Anthony and Morag Jordan were convicted of a series of assaults at a children's home on Jersey"/></a></p>
<p>A married couple have been convicted of a string of physical assaults against vulnerable youngsters at a children&#8217;s home in the 1970s and 1980s.</p>
<p>Morag and Anthony Jordan, both 62, from Kirriemuir, Angus, were both found guilty of eight separate counts relating to abuse at the Haut de la Garenne home in Jersey. </p>
<p>But after more than eight hours&#8217; deliberation, a jury at the Royal Court of Jersey acquitted Mrs Jordan of a further 28 counts and Mr Jordan of four.</p>
<p>Both defendants remained silent as the verdicts were read but a former resident who gave evidence during the trial was led from the public gallery in tears.</p>
<p>Mr and Mrs Jordan, who had been arrested following a multimillion-pound police probe into suspected abuse at Haut de la Garenne, were bailed to return before the court for sentencing on January 6.</p>
<p>During the two-week trial, Mr and Mrs Jordan were accused of inflicting &#8220;casual and routine violence&#8221; while working as houseparents at the children&#8217;s home. Prosecutors said they acted like &#8220;intimidating bullies&#8221; and had carried out &#8220;frequent and callous&#8221; assaults on vulnerable residents.</p>
<p>Morag Jordan, originally from Dundee, was employed by the care home as a housemother between 1970 and 1984. The counts she was convicted of relate to assaults on four children who stayed at the home.</p>
<p>One had her face pushed into urine-soaked sheets after she had wet the bed and the woman, now in her 40s, told the court of her humiliation. &#8220;She used to pull my face into the sheets and let the other children know what I had done, called me &#8216;pissybed&#8217; and &#8216;pissypants&#8217;,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Her husband, originally from South Wales, was found guilty of common assault against two children. Mr Jordan&#8217;s convictions relate to hitting former residents with a metal spoon, a knife or with his hand.</p>
<p>Giving evidence, a former resident recalled being hit with such force that he fell off his chair. It happened when he refused to eat a meal that had originally been served to him the previous day.</p>
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