Female paedophile banned in 3 counties
BRITAIn’S most notorious female paedophile will be subjected to a huge exclusion zone banning her from at least three counties after her release from jail.
In an unprecedented open letter to Vanessa George’s victims, the Chief Probation Officer in England yesterday assured family members that she will be subjected to ‘extremely strict’ restrictions when she leaves prison within days.
Sonia Crozier said she shares the ‘disgust’ at the paedophile’s crimes.
George, 49, a former nursery worker, was jailed for a minimum of seven years in 2009 after she sexually abused up to 30 babies and toddlers in her care. She photographed herself abusing the children at a nursery in Plymouth and then sent the images to other perverts.
But in July, despite outrage from her victims and MPs, a Parole Board panel ordered her release. Efforts to keep her in prison have now been exhausted and she is due to be freed before the end of this month.
In the letter, Miss Crozier said she knew George’s release was worrying to the people of Plymouth, ‘where memories of her abuse are still vivid and frightening’.
But she said the Parole Board had imposed an ‘unusually large’ exclusion zone preventing the criminal from returning to all of Devon and Cornwall. It is understood that George has already been banned from a third British county and has been told she must avoid up to 20 other places in the UK upon her release.
One of George’s family members, who did not want to be named, said: ‘There are so many people who feel very strongly about what she did. It’s no wonder they are stopping her from coming back to Devon. It’s probably safer in prison for her.’
For the past ten years parents who sent their children to Little Ted’s nursery in Plymouth have endured the agony of not knowing whether they were abused by 18-stone George.
The mother of two teenage daughters admitted 13 sexual assault charges but refused to name which of the 30 babies and toddlers on a police shortlist she had attacked.
Miss Crozier said ‘one of the most tragic elements’ of the case was the fact that police are still unable to identify which children were abused, leaving hundreds of people in the dark about whether or not their child was a victim.