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Nursery worker remanded on child porn charges
11 Jun 2009A female nursery worker charged with several counts of sexual assault and making and distributing child porn was remanded in custody at court today.
Vanessa George, 39, from Plymouth, Devon, worked at the Little Ted's nursery in the city.
She appeared before a packed public gallery at Plymouth Magistrates Court wearing a white t-shirt and black trousers, and spoke only to confirm her name and address. She entered no pleas.
George faces two counts of sexually assaulting a girl under 13 by penetration, one count of sexually assaulting a boy under 13 by touching and one count of sexually assaulting a girl under 13.
She also faces three separate counts of making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children.
George was remanded in custody. No application for bail was made.
The charges were announced at a press conference yesterday where detectives said some of the suspect images could have been taken in the nursery at the centre of the investigation.
Assistant Detective Chief Superintendent Russ Middleton said: "It's safe to say we believe some of the images would have been taken within the nursery - but others it's impossible to say where those would have been taken."
He added: "We are focusing on our attempts to identify the children contained within the images. This is a very difficult task due to the nature of those images.
"At this time we have been unable to identify any individual children. And it's right to say that some images may never be identified."
The nursery, which operates from an adjoining school and church, remains closed.
