Nursery worker admits raping toddler

Paul Wilson, 20, pleads guilty to two counts of rape and 45 charges linked to online grooming of other girls A nursery worker has pleaded guilty to raping a toddler in his care and to a string of offences linked to the online grooming of more than 20 other young girls. At Birmingham crown court, Paul Wilson admitted two counts of raping a girl aged two or three years old and a further 45 charges of making and distributing indecent images and inciting youngsters to engage in sexual activity on the internet. He was warned that he should expect an indeterminate jail term when he is sentenced next month. Wilson, 20, of Nechells, Birmingham, was charged with rape in January after his arrest on suspicion of child abuse prompted an investigation into his employment at Little Stars Nursery, which was temporarily closed after the arrest but later reopened. The investigation by West Midlands police revealed Wilson’s online grooming of young girls whom he threatened if they did not comply with his wishes. One of Wilson’s internet victims said she was left feeling shocked, violated and ashamed. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she now felt “pure hatred” for Wilson, with whom she communicated via MSN instant messaging and on the youth community site Netlog . The teenager initially engaged in normal conversations but was eventually pressured into exposing herself to Wilson via a webcam, and was then told that the images would be distributed if she refused to follow his orders. The girl, now 17, believes she broke off her contact with the offender up to a year before his crimes were uncovered by police, and said she had not realised he had any hidden agenda. Asked to describe her emotions when she discovered what the nursery worker had done to other victims, she replied: “I felt violated – it just betrayed all my trust. I felt quite stupid and ashamed that I had succumbed to what he had asked me to do. To know that it was the same person who I was talking to and felt that I trusted and had a relationship with – it just made me feel I had been violated.” She said Wilson had threatened to send images of her to her friends. “It was the choice of carrying on doing this – which I just did not want to do – or going through a few months of total humiliation from these images.” Eventually, the teenager got to a point where she “just didn’t care” whether he distributed the images, and she deleted him from her MSN account. “It has really affected me in the way that I go on the internet now,” she added. “I am really careful – I will stick to Facebook and only speak to people who I genuinely know in the real world.” Crime Child protection Children Young people Helen Carter guardian.co.uk

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