Paedophile nursery worker pleads guilty to upskirting girls and abusing them as they slept in 30 new offences
Vincent Chan, 45, molested girls aged three and four while working at the Bright Horizons nursery in Finchley Road, West Hampstead, north London
A paedophile nursery worker has pleaded guilty to a string of new offences including abusing girls while they were asleep.
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Vincent Chan, 45, molested girls aged three and four while working at the Bright Horizons nursery in Finchley Road, West Hampstead, north London.
As well as confessing to abusing girls during naptime at the nursery, he also admitted to filming up their skirts as they sat in class and downloading thousands of indecent images of children.
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On Thursday at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, Chan appeared via videolink from HMP Pentonville to face 30 new charges.
He pleaded guilty to ten counts of taking indecent photographs of children, six charges of outraging public decency, sexual assault on a female, and nine counts of voyeurism.
Because of his guilty pleas, Chan has now admitted filming up the skirts of children as they sat at tables in a classroom.
Police also recovered images showing Chan exposing himself in a classroom in 2017, as well as videos, believed to be of Chan, depicting a solo sex act.
He has also admitted a campaign of voyeurism.
Chan will be sentenced on February 12 for all 56 offences that he has now admitted.
Following the hearing, the victim's families said Chan's latest crimes "raise deeply troubling questions about how safeguarding systems could have failed so badly".
In a statement, issued through their legal team at law firm Leigh Day, the families said: "We are sickened to learn that Chan committed appalling offences apart from his time at Bright Horizons Finchley Road. Our thoughts are first and foremost with those affected by these new charges.
"Understandably, these further crimes raise deeply troubling questions about how safeguarding systems could have failed so badly that someone who was a prolific and persistent offender was able to secure employment as a nursery worker and offend without intervention for a number of years.
"The harm caused by crimes like these does not end in court; victims and their families live with the consequences every day. Safeguarding is meant to protect children, and when it fails, accountability cannot stop with one individual.
"Organisations and those responsible for enforcing safeguarding standards must answer too. No parent should have to wonder whether the most basic checks, protections and accountability are optional."