Vincent Chan admitted a series of crimes against young girls in his care as well as women over nearly two decades
A paedophile former nursery worker has been jailed for 18 years at Wood Green crown court for the “wicked” sexual abuse of young children.
Vincent Chan abused young children in his care – engaging in physical sexual abuse, taking obscene photos of them and creating others using software – as well as taking obscene images of himself in a classroom. He also set up cameras to watch women changing or going to the toilet, and sexually assaulted a woman while she was asleep.
The judge, John Dodd KC, told Chan he had behaved in a “sexually deviant manner” in committing “utterly wicked, perverse and depraved” crimes against people whom he had owed trust – taking advantage of them as they slept to sexually abuse them.
Referring to his victims, he told Chan they were too young to protect themselves, and too young to tell an adult. “They were defenceless.” He added: “There are so many of them: from the children involved to their parents; those who worked alongside you and those who were close to you.”
