Campaigner’s anger as mum dodges jail for baby fetish video
Slap on wrists for vile nursery worker MOTHER OF MURDERED BOY HITS OUT AT SENTENCE
A nursery worker who sat on two babies as part of a sex fetish deal should have been jailed, claims a mum whose son was strangled by a paedophile.
Margaret-Ann Cummings hit out at the justice system after former child carer Gemma McFee, 28, was given “a slap on the wrists” for her twisted crime.
McFee, of Barry, Angus, filmed herself sitting on two 16-month-old infants before sending the videos to pervert Andrew Kerr.
She was last week ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work.
Justice campaigner MargaretAnn’s son Mark, eight, was abused and choked to death by convicted abuser Stuart Leggate in Royston, Glasgow, in 2004.
She said: “It’s disgusting to think that someone can harm a child to provide sexual gratification for a paedophile and get such a slap on the wrist. The sentence doesn’t tally up with the crime she’s committed. “She might go back out and do it to other kids.
“I think she should’ve been given a five-year sentence, then tagged for a few years and kept on the sex offenders’ register. The fact she’s been given a non-custodial sentence opens the door for others to think that they can commit a crime like that and not get a sentence.
“She can’t say that she was naive to do it. She works with children, is living in society and is clearly educated.”
McFee admitted assaulting the boy and girl and was spared jail last November by Sheriff Jillian MartinBrown, who believed she had been “manipulated and exploited” by Kerr.
However any mention of the case was banned unti l proceedings against the RAF serviceman ended last week.
The former nursery assistant was placed on a restriction of liberty order for eight months and put under social work supervision for three years. She was banned from having contact with any child under 17.
The disturbing video clips were played in Dundee Sherff Court.
Footage showed the accused sitting on the children’s bodies and the head of one victim. Dr Sonal
Shah, an expert on sudden infant death syndrome, said McFee could have killed the babies.
She added: “An adult sitting on a small child could cause serious injury. Their weight means that there may be significant pressure, which could cause internal bleeding, fractured bones and, in a worst-case scenario, suffocation.
“This is an appalling crime.” Kerr, 35, pled guilty to inciting McFee to commit the offences after contacting her through Facebook. He also admitted attempting to incite a woman in Elgin to assault a child by sitting and standing on them, and possessing child abuse images at addresses including RAF Lossiemouth and RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.
Sentence on Kerr was deferred for social workers to study a report on him by a psychosexual therapist.
Graeme Dey, SNP MSP for Angus South, said: “One has to assume the court must have had very good reason to pass a sentence which, on the face of it, appears unduly lenient.”