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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Esther Addley

Father of toddler abused by nursery worker ‘frustrated’ by deportation

Roksana Lecka was convicted of 21 counts of child cruelty while working at two London nurseries in 2023 and 2024.
Roksana Lecka was convicted of 21 counts of child cruelty while working at two London nurseries in 2023 and 2024. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA

The father of a toddler who was abused by a nursery worker in a “sadistic” campaign of cruelty says he is “upset and frustrated” that the worker is to be deported to Poland on Thursday, less than five months into an eight-year sentence.

Roksana Lecka, a Polish national, was convicted last June of 21 counts of child cruelty, after a jury at Kingston upon Thames crown court in London found she had smacked, punched, pinched and kicked children aged between 18 months and two years while working at two London nurseries in 2023 and 2024.

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