South Lanarkshire nursery worker admits sex abuse of toddlers

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-18023422

I read this with disgust - and wondered immediately why there was no mention of CRB checks?

Either he was indeed 'a paedophile who hadn't been caught' and therefore passed his check - or the system is total crap, serves no purpose and should be dropped.

Mortimer was later found with almost 18,000 indecent images of children..... The first offender is now in prison having admitted a total of five charges relating to sexual assault of children and possessing indecent images of children.

The court heard that Mortimer was a full-time worker at a nursery in Lanarkshire having qualified in 2008.

As he was a first offender, presumably my first supposition is correct. Which still tends to CRB being useless, imo.