Church probe as ex-care home janitor jailed for child sex abuse

SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland

Thursday 22 August 2013

The Church Of Scotland has launched an investigation after a predatory and violent paedophile was able to get a job at a care home solely to prey on children in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Ian Samson, 72, is starting a 14-year jail sentence for a catalogue of abuse that included a number of attacks on youngsters at the Lord and Lady Polwarth Children’s Home in Polwarth, Edinburgh. The home closed in 1982.

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