Nursery Worker Pleads Guilty to 26 Child Sex Offenses

Vincent Chan, a 45-year-old nursery worker from Stanhope Avenue in Finchley, north London, pleaded guilty on Wednesday at Wood Green Crown Court to 26 child sex offenses, including sexually assaulting four young girls and filming the attacks at a nursery in northwest London where he worked for nearly seven years.

The British national admitted five counts of sexual assault of a child by penetration and four counts of sexual assault by touching. He also confessed to 11 counts of taking indecent photographs or pseudophotographs of a child and six counts of making such images, some classified as Category A, the most severe level of abuse. The victims, aged between two and four, were in his care at the Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead between August 2022 and June 2024. Prosecutors described Chan's actions as a calculated and predatory pattern, with him using the nursery's iPads to record the assaults and, in some instances, editing the footage by adding music and superimpositions before sharing clips with colleagues.

Chan began working at the nursery in 2017, taking on roles such as art specialist, room leader, and nursery nurse. He had passed advanced vetting checks and...