Boy was living with paedophile uncle

SOCIAL services staff have come under fire after a family court judge heard a boy spent at least two years living with a relative who was a convicted paedophile.

Judge Clifford Bellamy said staff at Leicester City Council had not undertaken a “robust risk assessment” of the man – a great-great-uncle who is in his 70s and had served a jail term after admitting to sexually abusing a girl – when they learned he was involved in caring for the boy, who is now nine.

He said the boy should be removed from his family and placed into foster care.

He said none of those involved could be named.

In a written ruling on the case, Judge Bellamy said the boy had a “complex” family background.

The boy’s mother, who has mental health difficulties, had separated from his father several years ago and was now in a lesbian relationship.

His father suffered from dwarfism, had a “problem with alcohol” and had a decade ago been convicted of having unlawful sex with a 16-year-old girl when he was 21.

The great-great-uncle had been given an eightyear jail term in the early 1990s after being convicted of sexually abusing a niece when she was aged between 11 and 13.