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Jayden McCarthy – Paignton

28 Friday May 2021

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July 2021

‘Dangerous’ paedophile who abused nursery children in Torquay given lengthy jail term

A nursery apprentice who abused nine toddlers in his care has been jailed for 11-and-a-half years.

Teenager Jayden McCarthy was described as a dangerous sexual offender who poses a risk to the public by a judge at Exeter Crown Court.

He was 16 and an apprentice at a nursery in Torquay in July 2019 when he forced a girl to have oral sex with him.

Analysis of CCTV from the previous month showed him carrying out a series of less serious sexual assaults on toddlers.

McCarthy had previously raped a boy of eight or nine in a completely unrelated case, several years earlier.

Judge David Evans told him: ”These offences were aggravated by the extreme youth of the children, the breach of trust and the presence of other children, as is clear from the footage.

“I judge you as posing a high level of risk based on the way in which you could barely contain your sexual impulses in the images from the nursery, when you were aged 16, and the way you abused the boy earlier.

“It seems that sexual offending may be in your nature and a great deal of work may be necessary to work it out

“I cannot ignore the very great deal of distress and psychological disturbance that you caused directly to the victims and indirectly to those who care for them.

“You had obtained a job at the nursery and received safeguarding training. Whatever immaturity you exhibited, you clearly understood the importance of safeguarding and the need to protect the young and vulnerable children in your care.”

McCarthy, now aged 18, of South Devon, denied one count of rape and 13 of sexual assault at the nursery and was found guilty of all these offences and the two rapes of the boy.

He was jailed for a total of 11-and-a-half years with a three year extended licence. The sentence means he will serve eight years and three months before he will become eligible for parole.

He will thereafter be liable to recall to prison if he fails to comply with his licence until the full 14 years and six months has expired. The judge put him on the sex offenders’ register for life.

McCarthy had been working at the nursery for four months when a three-year-old girl went home and told her mother that he had made her take part in a sex act in a toilet area.

A massive police operation was launched on July 29, 2019, when the girl told her mother that ‘Jayden had been naughty’ in a toilet at the nursery.

Officers studied 265 hours of CCTV footage which revealed the other offences, in which he put his hand up the skirts of girls or touched them while pretending to play or apply sun cream.

One clip showed him looking around furtively as he slid his hand inside a little girl’s clothing as she took a nap on a mattress on the floor with other children asleep all around her.

The CCTV footage also showed that he had been alone in the toilet area with the three-year-old for around nine minutes on the day he assaulted her.

Her dress had got drenched while she was in a wet pay area and he was ostensibly changing it for a dry one which she kept in her rucksack.

McCarthy was in care and living in a children’s home at the time while also working part time as a waiter at a pub in Kingsteignton.

He had been working at the nursery since March, having passed two interviews and been vetted

May 2021

Nursery apprentice who sexually assaulted nine children is under 24-hour supervision at Somerset location

A teenager who abused nine toddlers at a nursery is under 24-hour supervision at an isolated location in Somerset.

Nursery apprentice Jayden McCarthy of Paignton was found guilty of the offences at the end of a trial at Exeter Crown Court.

He was 16 in July 2019 when a three-year-old girl went home and told her mother he had made her take part in a sex act in a toilet area of the nursery in Torbay.

CCTV from the previous ten days revealed he had carried out 13 sexual assaults on seven girls and one boy.

A teenage boy also came forward to police to disclose that McCarthy had raped him repeatedly when he was aged about eight.

Judge David Evans adjourned the case until July 14 for sentence and allowed McCarthy to remain on bail until then.

He is currently in council care and under 24-hour supervision in Somerset and will remain there until sentence.

The judge ordered a psychiatric and pre-sentence reports and told McCarthy to expect a lengthy sentence of youth custody.

The judge told him:”You have been found guilty on the clearest possible evidence of grave sexual offences against young and very young children at a time when you were yourself a youth.

“You face a substantial sentence of custodial detention.

“However, I cannot sentence you now.

“I need to give those affected to record the effect on the children in personal statements which will be before me when I sentence.

“I also need to give the lawyers time to construct submissions about sentence, which they will put into writing.

“Given your age, and the age you were at the time, and the seriousness of the offending and your lack of previous convictions, I am allowing time to arrange a psychiatric assessment by someone with forensic experience and a full pre-sentence report to be prepared by the probation service.

“That will address all relevant matters, including dangerousness.”

The judge told McCarthy he will have to sign on the Sex Offenders’ Register immediately and will be prevented from working with children again by the Declaration and Barring Service.

McCarthy, now 18, of South Devon, denied one count of rape and 13 of sexual assault at the nursery and was found guilty by unanimous verdict of each offence.

He also denied two rapes in relation to the earlier assaults on the eight-year-old boy and was found guilty of those by majority verdicts.

A massive police operation was launched on July 29, 2019 when the three-year-old girl told her mother that ‘Jayden had been naughty’ in a toilet at the nursery.

Officers studied 265 hours of CCTV footage which revealed the other offences, in which he put his hand up the skirts of girl or touched them while pretending to play or apply sun cream.

One clip showed him looking around furtively as he slid his hand inside a little girl’s clothing as she took a nap on a mattress on the floor with other children asleep all around her.

The CCTV footage also showed that he had been alone in the toilet area with the three-year-old for around nine minutes on the day he assaulted her.

Her dress had got drenched while she was in a wet play area and he was ostensibly changing it for a dry one which she kept in her rucksack.

McCarthy was in care and living in a children’s home at the time while also working part time as a waiter at a pub in Kingsteignton.

He had been working at the nursery since March, having passed two interviews and been vetted.

He had received training in safeguarding during his employment.

The jury at Exeter Crown Court was shown 13 CCTV clips taken in July 2019 which showed him touching eight children inappropriately.

McCarthy was also found guilty of two counts of rape in a separate incident.

Richard Turner – Catterick/Leeds

26 Wednesday May 2021

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May 2021

Nursery worker jailed for sexual assault on toddler

A nursery worker has been jailed for sexually assaulting a toddler in his care and downloading over 40,000 indecent images of children.

Paedophile Richard Turner, 48, was due to face trial at Teesside Crown Court on Tuesday for the assault but instead admitted one count of sexually assaulting the young girl before a jury was sworn in.

He had already admitted downloading over 46,000 depraved photos and videos of children.

Turner, who was living in Catterick Garrison at the time of his offences, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images and one count of sexual assaulting a child.

He denied two other allegations of sexually assaulting a girl under 13 years of age and failing to disclose the password for a hard drive.

These pleas were accepted by the prosecution and not guilty verdicts were recorded on those two allegations.

The ex-soldier – who was already serving a nine-and-a-half-year jail sentence child sex offences against children – downloaded no less than 46,436 indecent images – 255 of which were rated Category A, the worst kind of such material involving the serious sexual abuse of children.

The enormous collection of photos and movie clips were found on a device at Turner’s home in Catterick and had been downloaded between August 2016 and April 2018, said prosecutor Paul Newcombe.

The court heard Turner, who is a father, committed the offences while working at a North Yorkshire nursery after gaining qualifications in Scotland and then moving to Catterick with his wife.

The mother of the toddler who was sexually assaulted by the paedophile said her daughter had since suffered from “severe anxiety”.

The sexual assault occurred between April 2016 and May 2017, but the offences didn’t come to light until early last year, when Turner was brought in for police questioning.

He was already serving a long prison sentence for previous offences of possessing more than 100,000 indecent images of children and sexual assaults on three very-young girls while taking indecent photos of them.

That sentence was imposed at Teesside Crown Court in August 2019, but Mr Newcombe said that Turner’s new offences were part of the “same tranche” of offending, occurring during the same period but only coming to light years later.

At the time of his first arrest in 2018, Turner was found with a “child-like” prosthetic sex doll at his home in Catterick Garrison, which was searched by police for evidence of online sex crimes.

Officers found “vast collections” of child-abuse images stored on Turner’s computers and digital devices.

As well as the images, police found a rucksack containing children’s underwear and a prosthetic, child-like doll which had been used.

The former military man – who had moved to Leeds by the time he was sentenced for the first set of offences – had left the army after serving for 20 years after suffering serious injuries when a Land Rover he was in was blown up by a roadside bomb during one of his tours of duty in Afghanistan.

Judge Howard Crowson slammed Turner for his latest sexual assault on the toddler which he described as “appalling”.

“She (now) distrusts all men except her father,” said the judge.

“She was particularly vulnerable by reason of her (extremely young age). This has had a very long-term effect upon (her).”

Jailing Turner for a further two-and-a-half years – which will be served consecutive to his current prison term – Mr Crowson said it was a “significantly reduced” sentence because it was effectively part and parcel of his earlier offending.

Turner will remain on the original sexual-harm prevention order, which was imposed at the 2019 sentence and will run indefinitely.

August 2019

Former soldier found with child-like sex doll jailed for sex crimes

A former solider found with a ‘child-like’ prosthetic sex doll has been jailed for almost ten years for a string of sex offences.

The discovery was made when Richard Turner was arrested at his former home at Catterick Garrison as officers searched for evidence of child sex abuse images taken by the 47-year-old.

Teesside Crown Court heard how Turner had a vast collections of child abuse images stored on a number of computers and digital devices, as well as carrying out sexual assaults on three young girls while taking indecent photographs of them.

The court heard how Turner left the army after serving for 20 years after he suffered serious injuries when a Land Rover he was in was blown up by a roadside bomb during one of his tours of duty in Afghanistan.

Turner pleaded guilty to a total of ten charges including five of sexual assault on someone under 13, three charges of possessing indecent images of children and two charges of taking indecent photographs of the young girls.

Sentencing Turner, Judge Stephen Ashurst said the former solider was in possession of more than 100,000 child abuse images with 203 being of the most serious kind.

He added: “As well the images, the police found a rucksack containing children’s underwear and a prosthetic child-like doll which had been used.”

Turner, of Victoria Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, was sentenced to four and half years for the most serious sexual assault with an 18 month consecutive sentence for lesser charges.

He was also given an 18 month consecutive sentence for photographing three victims and a further two year consecutive sentence for possession of the child abuse images. A total of nine and half years.

The judge put him on the sexual harm prevention register indefinitely.

Gemma McFee – Barry

13 Sunday Sep 2020

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September 2020

Nursery worker ‘sat on twin babies’ to make money for holiday 

A former nursery assistant who sat on 16 month-old twins while videoing her actions to make money for a holiday was shown mercy by a sheriff, it can now be revealed.

Gemma McFee was spared jail because she had been “naive” and was “manipulated and exploited” by a man with a fetish for women sitting on babies.

McFee, now 28, sent seven separate video clips to RAF serviceman Andew Kerr, who recruited her through Facebook.

McFee, who was 25 and unemployed at the time of the offences, had wept openly in the dock as the video clips showing her placing a cushion on the 16-month-old twin babies and repeatedly sitting and putting her weight on them were played in court.

The boy and girl could be seen in severe discomfort, crying and struggling to breathe at times as she applied “significant” pressure.

Prosecutor Kirsten Letford said Kerr, who had posed as a film stuntman, had initially paid McFee to stand on him, under the guise of it being for a film.

Mrs Letford said: “He then incited her to sit on the babies for payment and from the conversation between them she was a willing participant, for financial gain.

“He gave her detailed instructions and asked her to send him recordings of the assaults. She would be paid for the clips.”

Facebook conversations Kerr had with the accused were read out in court.

On June 18, 2018 Kerr stated: “You can do it on the floor but usually easier to start on the bed or sofa, that way you can apply your full weight.”

He also suggested that she smother the babies, and that she sit on their heads.

Mrs Letford said: “When it is clear she is motivated by financial gain he tells her that the higher quality the clips were the bigger the financial gain would be for her, adding that she needed to cover more of the child and put more weight on them.

“At the time of these assaults, bank statements show she was experiencing some financial difficulties.

“Throughout the conversation,she continually asks questions about how much money she would receive for making the video clips.

“At one stage when asked to make another video she stated, ‘Yeah will do. I’m due a holiday so let’s see if I can make as much as possible’.”

In one conversation McFee told Kerr: “He really really didn’t like that last one. I’ll have to stop and give him a breather.”

The video clips, ranging from four to forty seconds in length, were played in court, showing the accused sitting on the bodies of the children and the head of one of them, placing varying degrees of body weight on them.

One clip showed her kneeling in front of one of the babies and thrusting her buttocks backwards towards the child, while a still photograph showed her sitting on one of the babies.

The videos showed McFee increasing the weight on the children by placing a cushion on top of their bodies — and in one clip on a child’s head — and sitting on the cushion.

Mrs Letford said: “Each of the children appeared to be laughing and giggling at the beginning, however as she places more body weight onto them they become extremely distressed, crying out and attempting to escape from underneath her.”

She was sentenced to 200 hours community service, placed on a restriction of liberty order for eight months, and under social work supervision for three years.

Sheriff Jillian Martin-Brown also ordered banned her from having any contact with any child under 17.

The sentence was handed down at Dundee Sheriff Court last November (2019), but any mention of the case was banned until the resolution of proceedings against Kerr.

McFee, a mother-of-two, of Barry, Angus, pleaded guilty in October 2019 to assaulting the twins, a boy and a girl, who cannot be identified, to the danger of their lives, at a house in Arbroath, in June 2018.

Kerr, 35, has pleaded guilty to inciting McFee to commit the offences.

He also admitted attempting to incite a woman in Elgin to assault a child by sitting and standing on them, and possessing child abuse images at addresses including RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.

Sentence on Kerr was deferred for social workers to study a report on him by a psychosexual therapist.

Dealing with McFee, Sheriff Martin-Brown said it was her view that a non-custodial sentence would achieve the purposes of punishment and societal disapproval as well as give an opportunity for “effective rehabilitation”.

Sarah Pitt – Bromyard/Linton

13 Saturday Oct 2018

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October 2018

Cruel nursery worker force-fed toddler until she was sick

GUILTY: Sarah Pitt.

A ‘CRUEL’ nursery worker who force-fed a toddler until she was sick and left another child to lie in his own urine for hours was told by a judge she will never work with children again.

Sarah Pitt of Linton, Bromyard was spared jail at Worcester Crown Court yesterday.

The 40-year-old admitted four counts of child cruelty, each against a different child at Tiblands Nursery School, Whitbourne.

Parents of the victims and a whistleblower all criticised the sentence as ‘far too lenient’.

They believe the nursery should be closed down and Pitt should have gone to prison.

All the children except one were under three.

Pitt’s abuse only came to light when a whistleblower raised the alarm about her ‘bossy’ and ‘abrupt’ behaviour, reporting her to Ofsted and safeguarding bodies.

The offences relate to the “physical and emotional abuse of a number of different children”

Rather than being dismissed, the defendant was allowed to continue working and given extra training, a decision branded ‘mystifying’ by the judge who called Pitt ‘an appalling bully.’

Despite the training, further abuse followed and a second whistleblower raised the alarm.

Sharon Bahia, prosecuting, described how Pitt threw a blanket over a little girl and held her hand over her mouth to muffle her crying, leaving the same child in a pushchair in a disabled toilet; and told children to ‘shut up’ but changed her behaviour when an assessor visited.

The court also heard she force-fed a child yoghurt until she vomited; mimicked a boy with special needs and left the same little boy to lie in his own urine for three to four hours because he had to be ‘taught a lesson’, only changing him when his parents arrived to collect him.

Another little girl was left crying for an hour and 15 minutes and pushed her so hard that her head made contact with the back of her pushchair.

The defendant was arrested on January 19, 2017 for offences stretching back over three years. Judge Jim Tindal said: “She will never work with children again.”

He said he could not decide whether her lack of insight was ‘stupidity or arrogance.’

The judge said: “Because of the experience you have had in your own relationships and in particular losing your father you got yourself into a place mentally where you were completely and utterly unfit to care for children.”

He questioned why Pitt had been allowed to continue her job after treating children so ‘abominably’ and was only given just ‘a slap on the wrist’ .

Judge Tindal sentenced her to two years in prison suspended for two years, ordered her to complete 30 rehabilitation activity days and make contribution to costs of £250.

His decision to suspend the sentence was based on the impact an immediate custodial sentence would have on the defendant’s son.

Pitt is banned from having any unsupervised contact with any child under 16 without the permission of that child’s parents who have knowledge of the conviction.

Sheila Davies – Aberdeen

01 Friday Jun 2018

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June 2018

Woman found guilty of abusing six children in her Aberdeen home over eight-year period

A woman has been found guilty of a string of child abuse charges.

Former nursery owner Sheila Davies went on trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court this week, charged with assaulting children as young as four at her home between 1993 and 2001.

The 59-year-old was yesterday found guilty of six charges, and will be sentenced later this month.

Last night, one of her victims said she had carried the abuse around with her for 22 years and called for her to be jailed.

Davies previously ran All Stars Nursery on Don Street, but was banned from working with children in 2007 after an inspection revealed youngsters were being force fed out-of-date food.

And yesterday, she was found guilty of attacking six youngsters aged between four and 12 between June 1993 and September 2001 at an address on Stornoway Crescent.

She slapped children the head, force fed them and dragging one out of a bunk bed.

One victim, who went to stay with Davies when she was four, admitted last night she wishes she had spoken out sooner as she could have protected other youngsters.

She said: “I have felt guilty for the last 22 years that I haven’t said anything to the authorities, because if I did say something maybe I could have put a stop to it.

“The police came to me and said that there was a public investigation going on and they were going round a lot of people that were in her care.

“I thought about it for three days and I felt guilty.

“I thought I was the only one, I did not think it was this serious.

“She has got to go to prison for this.”

She added: “The way I gave my statement it was like I was writing down a memory.

“You never forget someone who hits you, my mum never hit me to discipline me.

“She was the first person to ever lay her hands on me.”

Davies, of Stornoway Crescent, Aberdeen, will be sentenced on June 26.

A damning report has revealed how staff at the Scottish nursery left distraught children to cry uncontrollably because they thought the youngsters were ‘too spoilt’.

Inspectors from a care watchdog saw children at All Stars Nursery in Aberdeen sob without any intervention from staff.

In one visit, officials from the Care Inspectorate even ‘observed one child cry them self to sleep at lunch’.

The nursery was also found guilty of putting children at risk by failing to carry out criminal record checks on some of its staff.