"Chan molested girls as young as three years old while working as a room leader at the Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road in London's West Hampstead. The 45-year-old was jailed on Thursday for 18 years after admitting 56 offences. They included sexually assaulting nursery children while filming the abuse, downloading tens of thousands of indecent images of youngsters, upskirting girls at a primary school where he used to work, and recording women using hidden cameras in toilets and bathrooms."
"Chan first came to the attention of police in 2024 when he was accused of bullying a boy in his nursery class, filming as the youngster drifted off to sleep while eating before shouting loudly to startle him awake. Officers called in to investigate child cruelty claims conducted a search of Chan's electronic devices, and uncovered evidence that he was a paedophile."
"After 18 months of searching for answers, they want the nursery to be the focus of a separate criminal investigation, and are calling for a nationwide review of nurseries and child safety. Their safeguarding system has really failed, said the mother. There were signs concerns raised internally by parents and they were not picked up. And then when they were, we feel they weren't taken seriously enough or not acted upon."
Vincent Chan molested girls as young as three while he was a room leader at Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road, West Hampstead. He admitted 56 offences and received an 18-year prison sentence. Offences included filming assaults on nursery children, downloading tens of thousands of indecent images, upskirting at a former school, and recording women with hidden cameras. Police began investigating after a 2024 bullying incident; a search of his devices uncovered paedophile evidence. Parents report two weeks of near-silence from the nursery and describe the initial response as clumsy and incompetent. Families call for the nursery to face criminal investigation and for a nationwide review of nursery safeguarding and child safety.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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