LONDON: An “evil” UK nursery worker who raped and abused two- and three-year-olds in his care was jailed for at least 24 years on Monday, weeks after another child-care worker was imprisoned in a similar case.
Nathan Bennett, 30, was jailed at Bristol Crown Court in southwest England for the serial abuse of five boys at the nursery where he worked. He was described as an “incorrigible and dangerous paedophile” by Judge William Hart, handing down the sentence.
“You prioritised your own sexual satisfaction over the welfare of these little children and that was due to your grossly distorted thinking and a degree of -- to use an old fashioned word -- evil,” said Hart. Bennett was convicted last month of eight charges of rape, sexual assault and assault by penetration relating to five children.
He previously also admitted to 13 other charges relating to four of the same children, who were two years old at the time. He “exploited his position” to “repeatedly abuse young children”, said prosecutor Gemma Kneebone. The sentence comes a month after another child-care worker Vincent Chan was jailed for 18 years for sexually abusing youngsters during naptime at a nursery in London.
