Paedophile nursery worker, 21, who raped toddler is jailed for ‘chilling, vile’ crimes

Paul Anthony Wilson, who used a mobile phone to film two separate attacks on the infant, was ordered to serve at least 15 years before he can be considered for parole.

Mrs Justice Macur said yesterday the 21-year-old, who worked at the Little Stars Nursery in Nechells, Birmingham, had caused unknown harm to the toddler and more than 20 young girls who were abused online.

Passing sentence at Birmingham Crown Court, Mrs Justice Macur said any right-thinking person would regard his crimes as wicked.

Wilson, of Newbold Croft, Nechells, pleaded guilty in June to two charges of rape, 16 counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, 25 of making indecent images, and three of distributing images of children. The counts of rape related to attacks on a toddler committed in a toilet block and a classroom at the nursery last year, while most of the other offences were committed against girls aged between 12 and 16.

Condemning Wilson as a predatory paedophile, Mrs Justice Macur added: “You have humiliated and corrupted and defiled. You are highly deviant, highly manipulative. You are intelligent and the more dangerous for being so.”

Wilson, who sat with his head bowed for almost all of the four-hour sentencing hearing, was arrested in a dawn raid at his home on January 5 this year.

Shenaz Muzaffer, prosecuting, said a mobile phone and a lap-top were recovered when Wilson was initially arrested in connection with a complaint made by a teenage girl he had met on the internet. But as well as recovering evidence of online abuse affecting a total of 22 girls living across England and Wales, officers also found two movie files showing the rapes committed at the nursery.

Wilson is known to have raped the toddler on separate occasions about six months apart during his employment at Little Stars, which began in October 2009.

At least six members of staff at Little Stars had raised concerns about his behaviour before his arrest, but he had continued to work there despite receiving a written warning.

Mrs Justice Macur said it was “a matter of some incredulity” Wilson had not been disciplined further for “deliberate and blatant” flouting of the nursery’s rules.