Paedophile employed by nursery abused girl in his care

Paul Anthony Wilson, 20, pleaded guilty to two counts of abuse and 45 charges of making and distributing indecent images and inciting youngsters to engage in sexual activity on the internet.

The extent of Wilson's depravity emerged when police investigating the grooming offences raided his flat and found images of the abuse of the toddler at the Little Stars Nursery in Birmingham.

Dressed in a white t-shirt and blue jeans, Wilson stood with his right arm folded across his chest as he pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday to 47 charges.

It took more than 30 minutes to put the charges to the unshaven defendant.

Remanding him in custody, the Recorder of Birmingham, Judge William Davis, QC, said it was highly likely an indeterminate life sentence would be imposed when he is sentenced in July.

"The public have to be protected from you," he said.

The case was not opened yesterday, but the facts were outlined at previous hearings.

During one at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 7 April, a district judge was told the grooming charges related to a total of 22 girls aged between 12 and 15.

Marni Chimba, prosecuting, told the lower court Wilson, of Newbold Croft, Nechells, Birmingham, used multiple identities to befriend the girls online, even pretending sometimes to be a previous victim. The prosecutor said: "Some of the aliases were female names and he also pretended to be the complainants, encouraging others to send their movies to him."

Ms Chimba said some of the victims were directed to expose themselves using webcams.

Others were filmed and recorded performing and taking part in sexual acts.

Wilson also distributed indecent images and threatened some of the children that he would show images he had already captured to their friends or parents.

One victim said she felt shocked, violated and ashamed.

The girl, who cannot be named, also disclosed her "pure hatred" for Wilson."It was the choice of carrying on doing this - which I just did not want to do - or going through a few months of total humiliation from these images," she said.

Her mother warned other parents to monitor their children's internet use more closely, saying: "You think they are on sites, safe, just talking to their friends, but there are outsiders who will latch on and pretend to be their friends and take them for what they want."

Sentencing was provisionally set for 27 July.

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Booth, who led the investigation, said Wilson had manipulated and co-erced his victims.

The senior investigating officer said: "This was a complex case in which Paul Wilson created multiple online identities to manipulate teenage girls and committed a serious sexual offence against a child attending the nursery at which he worked.

"His actions were clearly calculated and carefully considered."

Mr Booth said Wilson had abused his online relationships to satisfy his perversions and then used fear and guilt to keep the victims silent and force them to perform further sexual acts.

The officer said: "Our thoughts remain with those victims and their families. This was a complex and upsetting case for the officers involved in the investigation, many of whom have children of their own."

After the initial arrest, Mr Booth said, police officers had faced the difficult task of calling at the homes of victims of the internet abuse.

"With every knock at every victim's door, they knew the lives of those inside would be irrevocably changed," the officer added.

Wilson had no criminal record when he was detained and it is believed that checks on his background were conducted before he began to work at Little Stars.