Nursery employee taken care of children for 7 years earlier than being unmasked as paedophile

Vincent Chan, 45, of Stanhope Avenue, Finchley, north London, admitted his ‘calculated and predatory pattern of abuse’ at a nursery where he worked in north London

All you need to know about Vincent Chan’s court appearance as nursery woker admits string of sex offences

• Nursery worker Vincent Chan, 45 has pleaded guilty to 26 offences at Wood Green Crown Court today (December 3)after admitting filming himself sexually abusing four children.
• The 45-year-old of Stanhope Avenue, Finchley, north London, admitted his “calculated and predatory pattern of abuse” at a nursery in north London where he worked for nearly seven years before he was unmasked as a paedophile.
• The British national pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual assault of a child by penetration and four counts of sexual assault of a child by touching.
• He also admitted 11 counts of taking indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child, and six counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child.
• Some of the images were in the worst category of abuse.
• The families of the victims have been contacted directly and are receiving specialist support, while the NSPCC is running a helpline for all 700 families of children who attended the nursery during the time Chan worked there between 2017 and 2024.
• Chan was first arrested in June 2024, after a member of nursery 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.
• He was initially held on suspicion of neglect and released on bail, losing his job at the nursery, which has since closed.
• To date, police have seized 51 devices from Chan and 18 that he used at the nursery, a since-closed branch in north-west London.
• Chan will be sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court on January 23.
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