Social Worker Sentenced to Prison for Abusing Step-Children for Over a Decade
On April - 4 - 2012
- Victor Lindsay, 45, beat and tortured three children aged five and under
- Children were dangled from balcony, jumped on, suffered broken bones, and made to run four miles to school
- Judge says actions were an ‘extraordinary contradiction’
A social worker who subjected his stepchildren to almost a decade of ‘deliberate and unceasing cruelty’ has been jailed for nearly nine years. Victor Lindsay, 45, brutally beat and tortured his girlfriend’s three children Leon, Leona, and Cleo, who were aged five, four and two respectively when the attacks began in 1985. Horrified Judge William Kennedy said Lindsay’s actions represented an ‘extraordinary contradiction’ considering he had worked for many years as a social worker and a youth worker. The horrific abuse began with Lindsay dangling the youngsters over a high balcony before degenerating into extreme violence. READ MORE HERE
By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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