A MAN who left a one year-old girl with a brain injury insisted childcare “was not his style”.

Vladimir Silivanovs attacked the child twice while supposedly looking after her at a flat in Maryhill in 2017.

The 21-year-old violently shook the youngster having earlier pushed the tiny victim because she crawled away while he was changing her.

The girl’s injuries included a bleed on the brain and fractures to her arm.

Silvianovs was later held by police during a probe.

Prosecutor Mark Allan told Glasgow Sheriff Court: “He told the officers he didn’t have a talent for child care, looking after kids was not what he wanted to do and it wasn’t his style.”

Silvianovs now faces a lengthy jail-term after he admitted assaulting the child to her severe injury.

The first offender from Latvia was remanded in custody pending sentencing next month.

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The attacks occurred on October 12 and November 3, 2017.

The first incident happened while the girl’s mum was at work.

The baby was found the next day with “redness and swelling” to her arm.

Silivanovs claimed she had “grabbed” her to stop the child falling from a bed.

He was with the youngster a few weeks later when this time he insisted she had “fainted”.

Mr Allan said: “He said he had held her and she was struggling with him in his arms.

“As part of the struggle, he held her tightly, and as he did so, the baby fell forwards before coming round again.”

The child’s distressed mum discovered her daughter to be “pale and limp”.

Mr Allan said medics later found the child to have “bleeding and associated swelling” on the brain.

 She also had five fractures to her arm and elbow.

This was said to have been caused by “blunt force trauma or direct assault.”

Silivanovs was held and it was then he made the comments about childcare.

The court heard the child is fortunately “doing well” despite her ordeal.

Euan Dow, defending, said Silivanovs had given explanations for what happened.

The advocate added: “He was changing her on the sofa and she was not cooperating by crawling away from him.

“He became increasingly angry and frustrated and did a full force push on the child’s arms using his hands.

“The second incident he picked her up, described her as going mad, then held her by the armpits and he shook her for a couple of seconds.”

Sentencing was deferred for reports by Sheriff Ian Fleming.