A PAEDOPHILE was able to rape a five-year-old girl he was babysitting because agencies failed to tell her mother he was a convicted sex offender.

Maxine Carr has been released from prison, it was confirmed today.

An injunction banning the release of details of Maxine Carr’s new identity is one of the most robust yet seen, a leading lawyer has said.

MAXINE CARR was moved from prison to a temporary secure address yesterday ahead of her release, the British Home Office confirmed last night.

A third of the sex offenders given lie detector tests in a probation pilot scheme in the UK showed they had had unsupervised contact with children, it emerged today.