UK nursery worker admits toddler rape

A paedophile nursery worker pleaded guilty today to raping a toddler in his care and a string of offences linked to the online grooming of more than 20 other girls.

At Birmingham Crown Court, Paul Anthony Wilson admitted two counts of oral rape of 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.

The 20-year-old, of Newbold Croft, Nechells, Birmingham, was charged with rape in January after his arrest on suspicion of child abuse prompted an investigation into his employment at the nearby Little Stars Nursery.

Wilson was warned today that he was facing an indeterminate jail sentence.

Sentencing was provisionally set for July 27.

One of Paul Wilson’s internet victims said the offences perpetrated by him had left her feeling shocked, violated and ashamed.

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also disclosed that she now felt “pure hatred” for Wilson, with whom she communicated on the MSN messaging site and the web-based youth community Netlog.

Now 17, the teenager initially engaged in normal conversations over the internet, 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, who believes she broke off her contact with the offender up to a year before his crimes were uncovered by police, 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.” Confirming that Wilson had threatened to send images of her to her friends if she did not do as he asked, the victim continued: “I was really scared that he was going to send it to everybody else.

“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 was so mentally exhausted by Wilson’s offending that she “just didn’t care” whether he distributed the images and she deleted him from her MSN account.

The girl added that she had now changed the sites she uses on the internet.

“It has really affected me in the way that I go on the internet now,” she said. “I am really careful – I will stick to Facebook and only speak to people who I genuinely know in the real world.”