Trainee teacher photographed and sexually assaulted girl, 4

A Dublin trainee Montessori teacher who sexually assaulted and took pornographic pictures of a four-year-old child for his own use will be sentenced next month.

The court heard the child was afraid to go back to the specialised playschool and told her mother that the man, aged 32, had taken photos of her “bum” and “pants”.

Gardaí later discovered 46 images of the girl sent from the man’s phone to his email address, including photos of her private parts.