A British daycare worker has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting young girls in his care and filming the assaults, in what London police described as a… One of his most heartbreaking investigations.
Vincent Chan, 45, admitted to the incident … After he sexually assaulted four girls, aged between two and four, between 2022 and 2024 while working at a nursery in north London. These crimes constitute, according to the prosecution, a “high betrayal of trust.”
He pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court, London, to 26 offences, including Five counts of sexual assault with penetration and four counts of sexual assault by touching.
Chan too He admitted 11 charges of taking indecent photographsin relation to the girls he assaulted, and six charges of creating indecent images, related to thousands of other assault images found on his devices. He is scheduled to be sentenced in January.
According to the London Metropolitan Police, Chan’s crimes were exposed after a colleague reported him on suspicion of child abuse after he made what officers said was an arrest. “Disturbing images” for children.
Investigators said Chan’s guilty plea came after “one of the most horrific and complex child sexual abuse investigations” ever conducted by police.
Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford, who led the investigation, said: Chan’s crimes spanned years It revealed a pattern of calculated and predatory abuse. “He infiltrated environments that should have been safe havens for children, exploiting the trust of families and the wider community to hide his actions and exploit the most vulnerable people,” Basford said in a statement.
Some families of children who attended the nursery said it had failed them. “As parents, we are still trying to come to terms with the disgusting discovery that our children were subjected to vile abuse at the hands of Vincent Chan,” they said in a statement.