FIFE MAN JAILED NEARLY SIX YEARS FOR CHILD ASSAULT
Fife man Christopher Kirk has been jailed for nearly six years for assaulting two tiny children.The 31-year-old from Kirkcaldy was originally charged with attempted murder after shaking a squeezing a bay girl, causing two skull fractures.
He also battered a young boy and was accused of assaulting him to the danger of his life.
He pled guilty to lesser charges of assault – the girl, to the danger of her life – at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Judge Lord Richardson told him: “At the time when you assaulted each of these children they were less than a year old.
“They were completely defenceless.” Christopher Kirk was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh.
