Police have broken into a bricked-up room in a Jersey children's home where human remains were found.
Detectives are looking for more evidence of crimes against children after discovering a youngster's skull at the Haut de la Garenne home at the weekend.
More than 160 people have called police alleging they were victims of child abuse at the centre, it has emerged.
Jersey deputy police chief Lenny Harper said some children who lived at the home have not been accounted for.
Police are concentrating their search on a bricked-up room mentioned by victims as a site where abuse took place.
The room, which is about 12 feet square, produced an "extremely strong reaction" from the sniffer dog that found the skull, said Mr Harper.
Police are searching the room for a set of shackles victims say were used to restrain children.
Mr Harper said: "The initial look at what's in there certainly corroborates some of the victims.
"I don't wish to elaborate on what's in there at the moment."
"There is another room of the same size that appears to have been bricked up.
"Some of the bricking-up appears suspicious but there could be an innocent explanation for it."
Forensic teams are investigating seven sites at the Haut de la Garenne, which is now a youth hostel.
Jersey Police have spoken to 200 victims and witnesses and said the abuse claims stretch back four decades.
Former residents have claimed that when the building was used as a care home they were raped, drugged and flogged.
Peter Hannaford, 59, a resident at Haut de la Garenne until the age of 12, claimed older children were encouraged by staff to attack and sexually assault him nearly every night.
Now a woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, has told a newspaper that in the 1970s staff would have drunken parties and select weak children to abuse.
She said she was locked in a tiny three metre by four metre "punishment room" and was subjected to "the most cruel, sadistic and evil acts".
"It was the most serious forms of sexual abuse," she said.
"The staff knew how to pick out the weak ones - I think they went through their records - and rape was rife in all ages, both boys and girls."
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