A female nursery employee has been arrested for allegedly taking indecent images of young children in her care.
Vanessa George, 39, is married with two teenage daughters. She worked at the Little Ted’s nursery in Plymouth, Devon.
George has been charged with seven offences, including sexual assault and for the making and distribution of indecent images of children. A small number of images where found on a mobile phone, and are believed to have been taken at the nursery. She will appear in court on Thursday.
The nursery looks after around 60 children between the ages of two and five, and has children up to the ages of 11 attending out of school clubs. It is currently closed and it is not known when they will reopen for business.
Parents at the nursery have asked police to identify the children in the images.
Assistant Detective Chief Superintendent Russ Middleton, head of Devon and Cornwall CID, said: “Our priority is to maintain and build upon our relationship with the families of any potential victims. We are also focusing on our attempts to identify the children contained within the images. This is a very difficult task due to the nature of those images.
“At this time we have been unable to identify any individual children. And it’s right to say that some images may never be identified. We’ve got specially trained officers looking at the images. We’ve a large number of images, and the potential is there for many more to be identified.”
“We also have computers, laptops and documentary evidence to look at. At the moment there’s a small number on a camera phone, but as you can imagine we could be talking about hundreds or thousands of images with the other media we are yet to detail.”
In all the images found, the children were all under four years old.
The arrest came after father of one, Colin Blanchard, 38, was charged for possessing and distributing indecent images of children earlier this week.
___________________
Information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8094405.stm
No comments:
Post a Comment