‘I’ll break ya neck’: FaCS carer Lennard Downes admits to threatening autistic boy, denies assault

By Shannon Tonkin
Updated November 7 2018 - 8:25pm, first published July 17 2018 - 11:50am
Accused: Disability support worker Lennard Downes  leaves Wollongong Local Court during a previous court appearance. He has admitted issuing a series of chilling threats to the boy but denies physically assaulting him.
Accused: Disability support worker Lennard Downes leaves Wollongong Local Court during a previous court appearance. He has admitted issuing a series of chilling threats to the boy but denies physically assaulting him.

An ex-Illawarra FaCS worker has confessed to verbally abusing and threatening an autistic, non-verbal boy he was looking after at a government-run respite care centre in November 2016.

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