A former social worker, Peter Livingstone, has been found guilty of physically and sexually assaulting minors at a Barnardo’s residential facility.
Peter Livingstone perpetrated a disturbing campaign of abuse against five juvenile victims during his employment at Tyneholm House in Pencaitland, East Lothian, in the 1980s.
The perpetrator, now 66, indecently abused a child by disrobing him, stroking his body, and assaulting him on multiple occasions.
The corrupt health practitioner assaulted a second victim, aged between 12 and 13, and directed him to engage in a solitary sexual act in his presence.
Peter Livingstone thereafter performed a sexual act on himself, an occurrence that transpired on multiple times from April 1981 to November 1982.
A jury at Edinburgh Sheriff Court determined that he had assaulted a third youngster and compelled him to stand naked in the corner of a room at the boys’ home.
Additional crimes comprised the assault of two children on multiple occasions from 1979 to 1983. Peter Livingstone, a resident of Clermiston, Edinburgh, has been cautioned by a sheriff that he is confronting a protracted prison term.
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 Peter Livingstone on the sex offenders register and sentence was deferred until next month.
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