'Our children were sitting ducks': Parents demand change as ex-nursery worker gets jail for sex abuse

[Jim Burton]

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We cannot identify the parents who have spoken to Sky News, but they wanted to address the safeguarding failures that they say must lead to widespread change across nurseries all over the country.

Their daughter was a year old when she started at the Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road in north London.

"She was there till she started school," her mother said.

"We specifically chose a Bright Horizons nursery because we believed that it was an organisation that would educate our daughter, provide her with enriching opportunities, as well as being a childcare function.

"He was an art teacher, so he would do lots of kind of artistic activities with our children.

"I never got the impression she was kind of scared of him or really disliked him.

"He (Chan) was responsible for every element of her care when he was there - settling her to sleep during nap time, her intimate care and going to the toilet and meal times.

"Comforting her when she was upset…knowing that those moments of vulnerability for her were looked over by this kind of predator.

"I feel like the innocence of her childhood is stolen."

They had no idea about Chan's offending until the Met Police visited them last October.