Former childcare worker faces jail for child porn and abuse

A 50-year-old man who worked at a daycare centre should be jailed for four years for sexually abusing a child and for the possession of child pornography, the public prosecution department said on Friday.

The man, who worked for a childcare group in Bussum for 15 years, was arrested in February 2017, after police were alerted by US investigators. They were tracing the origins of child pornography found in the Dropbox online storage system.

After his arrest was made public, a woman came forward to claim that the man had abused her in the 1990s when she was a child. The suspect was a friend of her parents and used to babysit for her, broadcaster NOS said.

Police consider her evidence sufficient to press child abuse charges, NOS said.

The man was found to have some 1,700 images and films of child pornography in his possession, but there is no evidence he made any himself, the public prosecutor said.

‘Nevertheless, children were seriously abused in the images which the suspect had circulated,’ the department said. ‘The demand for such material ensures production continues.’

The public prosecution department says there is no evidence that the man had committed offences against the children in his care. He worked at both a daycare centre and an after-school club.

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