Paedophile nursery worker pleads guilty to upskirting children in classroom

Paedophile nursery worker Vincent Chan has pleaded guilty to 26 new sexual offences, including upskirting in a classroom.

The 45-year-old molested girls aged three and four-years-old while working at Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead, north London.

He filmed himself carrying out the abuse during nap time,

But Chan today pleaded to even more charges relating to his time at another educational setting in North London from 2007 until 2017.

He today pleaded guilty to ten counts of taking indecent photographs of children, six charges of outraging public decency, sexual assault on a female, and nine counts of voyeurism.

This includes filming up the skirts of children as they sat at tables in a classroom, at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court heard.

Sixteen images were identified of a schoolgirl taken ‘from under a classroom table with the camera angled in a manner designed to capture intimate parts of her body’.

Chan also had 13 images from 2016 showing ‘two unidentified female child victims with the camera angled in a manner designed to capture intimate parts of her body’.

In June 2017, Chan admitted ‘taking three images of a male holding an exposed penis whilst in classroom’, and having a video showing a solo sex act in a classroom.

Police also recovered images showing Chan exposing himself in a classroom in 2017, as well as videos, believed to be of Chan, depicting a solo sex act.

He was first arrested in June last year, after a member of staff reported that he had callously filmed a child falling asleep in their food and set it to music, before showing the clip to a colleague.

Chan, who passed an enhanced DBS check, was initially held on suspicion of neglect and released on bail, losing his job at the nursery, which has since closed.

Detectives seized dozens of digital devices from his home in Finchley, which revealed more than 25,000 indecent images and videos of children – some of which depicted the most severe abuse.

Chan will be sentenced on February 12 for all 52 offences that he has now admitted.

A spokesperson for the nursery said: ‘We are shocked and appalled by this individual’s horrific crimes.

‘Our thoughts are first and foremost with the children and families affected, and we are committed to offering support to them during this incredibly difficult time.

‘Our organisation’s mission is to protect and nurture young children. We employ over 8,500 experienced colleagues in our nurseries who work tirelessly and with dedication every day to look after the children in our care.

‘This individual’s actions represent not only a violation of the victims, but also a profound betrayal of the trust placed in him by families and colleagues.’

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