A choose on Friday jailed a nursery employee for eight years for a string of “gratuitous” and “sadistic” assaults on infants.
In a single incident, Londoner Roksana Lecka, 22, kicked slightly boy within the face a number of occasions.
Lecka, who blamed hashish for her crimes, admitted seven counts of cruelty to an individual beneath the age of 16 and was convicted after a trial of one other 14 counts.
Sentencing her for assaults on 21 infants, Decide Sarah Plaschkes mentioned she had dedicated “a number of acts of gratuitous violence” at two London nurseries the place she labored.
“You pinched, slapped, punched, smacked and kicked them. You pulled their ears, hair and their toes. You toppled youngsters headfirst into cots,” she mentioned.
“Typically the kid can be quietly and fortunately minding its personal enterprise earlier than you intentionally inflicted ache… Your felony conduct can correctly be characterised as sadistic,” she added.
Lecka’s cruelty was revealed in June 2024 after she was seen pinching a variety of youngsters.
Police have been known as in and located a number of incidents recorded on the nursery CCTV.
Sufferer impression statements submitted to London’s Kingston Crown Courtroom from dad and mom of Lecka’s victims informed how they have been left heartbroken and guilt-stricken by the assaults.
“These youngsters have been so harmless and weak,” one mom informed the court docket.
“They couldn’t communicate, they couldn’t defend themselves they usually couldn’t inform us as dad and mom that one thing had occurred to them,” she added.
“They have been completely helpless and Roksana preyed upon them.”
The listening to was informed that she had apologised to the dad and mom in a letter to the court docket through which she mentioned hashish had turned her into a distinct particular person.
She had been hooked on the drug across the time of the offences, however had not informed the nursery.
She was discovered not responsible of three additional counts of kid cruelty.
