A former social worker has been convicted of physically and sexually assaulting children at a Barnardo’s residential home.
Peter Livingstone carried out a shocking campaign of abuse against five young victims while he was employed at Tyneholm House in Pencaitland, East Lothian in the 1980s.
The fiend, now 66, indecently assaulted one child by removing his clothing, massaging his body and molesting him on various occasions.
The depraved health worker molested a second victim aged between 12 and 13 and instructed him to perform a solo sex attack in his presence.
Livingstone then carried out a sex act on himself, something he did on various occasions between April 1981 and November 1982.
A jury at Edinburgh Sheriff Court also found he had attacked a third child and made him stand naked facing the corner of a room at the boys’ home.
Further offences included assaulting two children on various occasions between 1979 and 1983. Livingstone, from Clermiston, Edinburgh, has now been warned by a sheriff he is facing a lengthy jail sentence.
Sheriff Matthew Auchincloss said: “You have been convicted of extremely serious charges committed against young children by this jury.
“I am going to release you on bail however I have to warn you that a custodial sentence is uppermost in the court’s mind.”
He placed Livingstone on the sex offenders register and sentence was deferred until next month.