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Nursery School Worker Sentenced To 30 Years Jail  For Raping Children

Nathan Bennett, a former employee at Partou King Street Nursery in Bristol, was convicted of sexually abusing five boys who attended the facility.

Aformer nursery worker in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after a court found him guilty of sexually abusing multiple young boys under his care, crimes the prosecution said involved a “significant degree of planning.”

Nathan Bennett, a former employee at Partou King Street Nursery in Bristol, was convicted of sexually abusing five boys who attended the facility.

Last month, the 30-year-old, from Corston near Bath, was found guilty by a jury of two counts of rape, four counts of sexual assault and two counts of assault by penetration. He had earlier admitted 13 additional sexual offence charges relating to four of the boys.

Prosecutors told the court that Bennett’s offences showed a “significant degree of planning,” highlighting the calculated nature of the crimes.

While delivering judgment at Bristol Crown Court, Judge William Hart strongly condemned Bennett’s actions, describing him as an “incorrigible and dangerous paedophile.”

“Watching, as we did in this trial, the closed circuit television footage of the little children at King Street Nursery running around and playing brings a smile to the face of any decent person and any parent… happy, innocent toddlers in a secure setting,” the judge said.

“But the children we see were not secure.

“They were at risk because unknown to staff and parents you were lurking ready to abuse them and to pollute their innocence with your own vile desires.”

“Nathan Bennett, having presided over your trial and having heard and seen the evidence upon which you were convicted, I am unhesitatingly driven to the conclusion that you are an incorrigible and dangerous paedophile with an uncontrollable and ungovernable sexual interest in male toddlers.

“Not only the evidence against you, but your own evidence at trial and your presentation leads me to that conclusion.”

The judge further stated: “I find it impossible to predict for how long you will remain such a danger.”

He added: “The simple fact of the matter though is that you prioritised your own sexual satisfaction over the welfare of these little children and that was due to your grossly distorted thinking and a degree of, to use an old fashioned word, evil.”

Following the sentencing, investigating officer, Det Con Bethany Cook, of Avon and Somerset Police described Bennett as a “predatory paedophile” who abused the trust placed in him.

“Nathan Bennett is a predatory paedophile who groomed children in order to commit vile sexual crimes on very young victims,” Cook said.

“He has manipulated his way into a position of trust which has given him access to victims who are just toddlers.”

She also addressed the emotional toll on the victims’ families, noting that some had expressed feelings of guilt over what happened to their children.

“In the statements read today, a number of those families expressed feeling a sense of guilt for what had happened to their young children. Bennett, not them, is the person who deserves to feel guilt because it was him that knowingly subjected his victims to such sickening abuse,” she said.

“I hope that now that he has been handed a lengthy prison term, the victims and families will finally be able to rebuild their lives.”

In addition to the prison sentence, the court placed Bennett on the sex offenders’ register for life and imposed an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.