A teenager has been jailed for sexually abusing children at the nursery where he worked.
Jayden McCarthy, 18, will serve 11 years and six months with an extended licence of three years, a judge at Exeter Crown Court ruled.
McCarthy was found guilty of one charge of rape and 13 of sexual assault at the nursery in Torbay by a jury in May.
He was also found guilty of two counts of raping a boy in a separate incident in 2014.
An investigation was launched when a child at the nursery McCarthy worked at told her parents that he had sexually assaulted her.
At McCarthy's trial at Exeter Crown Court the jury were shown 13 CCTV clips taken in July 2019 of him touching eight children inappropriately.
He had been taken on as an apprentice in March 2019 following an interview process and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-57943692
Forget for a second that he was an employee in a nursery where there were cameras that allowed parents to log in and actually see what was happening to their children, online in real time.
As an apprentice McCarthy should have been supervised, he should have been visited by his training provider, an Independent Training Provider not a college, regularly and assessed.
How the fuck did this happen?