Ex-social worker jailed for 20 years for children’s care home sex attacks

A former social worker who used his position at a “brutal” children’s care home to carry out a string of sex attacks in the early 1980s has been jailed for 20 years, police said.

Andris Logins was found guilty on Monday of four rapes and 10 indecent assaults on two girls and a boy he was caring for at a Nottingham home.

The 57-year-old, of Stiles Road, Arnold, Nottinghamshire, worked at the Beechwood Care Home in Mapperley between 1980 and 1985 and he was jailed at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday.

The home closed in 2006 and police became involved when a woman, who was 15 when she was raped by Logins, went to police in July 2013.

Detective Superintendent Adrian Pearson, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “Today’s sentencing of Andris Logins is a very significant moment for his victims.

“The past few years have not been easy for any of them as they have had to relive the harrowing and life-shaping events which took place three decades ago, in the hope that, after all this time, the criminal justice system would help them find some closure.

“Just simply being believed has been important to the victims; believed by family, friends, the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and, crucially, a trial jury which returned unanimous guilty verdicts for 17 offences committed by Logins at the Beechwood Children’s Home in the early 1980s.”

Logins was also placed on the sex offenders register for life and barred from working with children, police said.

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