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David Campbell

Charity worker who battered baby from day she was born facing care job ban

A care worker who attacked at tiny baby multiple times from the day she was born is facing a ban from working in the sector.

Michael Finlay left the child with a fractured skull and multiple bruises in a series of horrific assaults at a house in Lenzie.

The bully - who previously worked as a carer for the charity that runs Quarriers Village in Bridge of Weir - was convicted of repeatedly attacking the infant to her severe injury and danger of her life in 2019.

He was later jailed for five years at Glasgow Sheriff Court the Paisley Daily Express reports.

Now the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) will consider his future in the care sector, including striking him from their register.

Finlay, from Johnstone, had worked with vulnerable people before his horrific crimes were revealed.

Sentencing him at the time Sheriff Norman Ritchie QC told him: “Your rage has cost you your home, your employment and your liberty.

“No one who heard the evidence could fail to be moved by the plight of the child who suffered at your hands.”

The attacks occurred between October and December 2017 and the court heard Finlay bawl "shut up" at the baby and told her family "s**t happens" when they confronted him about her bruises.

The SSSC hearing will take place online tomorrow and a report published at a later day.

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