Former Residential Social Worker Paedophile

Paedophile Andris Logins update: Children’s home was ‘home from hell’ – says judge

Paedophile Andris Logins has been jailed for a total of 20 years for abusing children at a Nottingham care home “from hell”.

Showing no emotion today in the dock, the former residential social worker was ordered to serve at least half of his sentence and the remainder on licence.

The 57-year-old, of Stiles Road, Arnold, was convicted of 17 charges at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday afternoon.

Unanimous guilty verdicts were delivered by the jury on 12 indecent assaults, one offence of cruelty to a child and four rapes.

Logins looked blankly ahead as he listened to three victim impact statements read out to the trial judge, James Sampson.

One testimony revealed one victim still had nightmares.

“She struggled to trust others,” added prosecutor Mary Prior.

“She leads a lonely, isolated life.”

Judge Sampson said Logins had worked at Beechwood children’s home, in Mapperley, in the 1980s.

“You were then a much younger man, in your twenties,” he said.

“Children in your charge, including victims in this case, were teenage boys and girls. All were vulnerable in various ways.

“They arrived at Beechwood very lonely victims of sexual and or physical abuse.

“It should have been a safe haven but, in fact, it was a home from hell.”

Logins would develop a caring rapport with his alleged victims before abusing them.

In one case, he abused a boy around ten times, performing sex acts on him, and in another he described the complainant as his “special woman” and raped her.

Judge Sampson described Logins’s style as one of “taking advantage of the helpless situation the children found themselves”.

He barred him from working with children and ordered he to sign the sex offenders’ register for life.

Logins will be subject to a sexual harm prevention order, prohibiting contact with young people in the future.

He is the first former children’s home employee to be convicted under Operation Daybreak, a county-wide investigation into allegations of abuse of children in care.

Detective Superintendent Adrian Pearson said: “We have got a lot of operational activity going on behind the scenes. More arrests will follow inevitably.”

Nottinghamshire County Council Leader Coun Alan Rhodes pledged last November to make an unreserved apology to victims, if the authority was found to have failed to protect children in its care.

He said: “Tomorrow, at a meeting of our full council, I will fulfil that promise.”

He applauded the victims in the case for their bravery, courage and persistence in helping to bring the defendant to justice.

An NSPCC spokesman said: “We hope this case will encourage other victims of abuse to come forward in the knowledge that action will be taken, no matter how many years have passed.

“Anyone concerned about a child should call our helpline on 0808 800 5000.”

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