The Haut de la Garenne children's home in Jersey should be demolished, a long-awaited report into historical abuse and mistreatment of youngsters on the island has recommended.
The home, dubbed "the house of horrors", was where hundreds of crimes were carried out over decades before it was shut in the 1980s.
The recommendation to consider demolishing its buildings came in an inquiry report detailing the tragic history of abuse on the island.
The inquiry, chaired by Frances Oldham QC, said: "We believe that the buildings at Haut de la Garenne are a reminder of an unhappy past or shameful history for many people."
It said the home was a "symbol of the turmoil and trauma" of the police inquiry into the abuse.
The inquiry, which examined the care system in Jersey from the mid-1940s onwards, heard how children suffered abuse, emotional cruelty and neglect at the hands of unsuitable carers.
It said: "In summary, we have found a worrying history of both inappropriate and ineffectual state intervention and state indifference.
"Children have, at times, been removed from families without a statutory basis or for seemingly inconsequential reasons."
The inquiry found that at least up to the late 1980s and early 1990s, some children were "effectively abandoned in the care system".
"When a child left the care system in their mid-teens, they were often again abandoned without adequate aftercare to make their own way in the world," it went on.
In one residential home, La Preference, which was originally run by the Vegetarian Society from 1951 to 1984, children taken in during that period had to adopt a vegetarian diet.
Only one inspection took place there, in 1981. At Haut de la Garenne, the mix of ill-equipped staff and lack of training was compounded by a "toxic mix" of personalities who meted out or tolerated harsh treatment of children.
Three phases of hearings were held in public between 2014 and 2016, with more than 200 witnesses giving evidence directly and the evidence of a further 450 ex-residents and others linked to the care system also considered.
The inquiry also found failings still existed in Jersey's child care systems and that "lessons of the past have not been learned".
Foster carers reported the service was failing, care orders were being used inappropriately and children in care still reported no effective system to raise concerns.
The States of Jersey Police were under-resourced at times, and in December 2010 the island's chief minister Terry Le Sueur issued a formal apology to all victims.
The apology followed the end of an investigation by the States of Jersey Police, codenamed 'Operation Rectangle', into historical child sexual, emotional and physical abuse in institutions.
The probe reported 553 alleged offences between September 2007 and December 2010 and most, 315, were reported to have been committed at Haut de la Garenne.
Police identified 151 named offenders and 192 victims but just eight people were prosecuted for 145 offences, with seven convictions.
Four of them related to Haut de la Garenne.
