Pictured left is the face that hundreds of parents and grandparents trusted everyday – and what is even more frightening is that their children and grandchildren trusted it too.
Everyday at Little Ted’s Nursery in Plymouth for almost three years parents and grandparents placed the hands of their precious children into those of Vanessa George with the complete assurance and confidence that she was looking after them – she was, but not in the way anyone of those parents could ever have expected.
Childcare worker Vanessa George has been arrested and charged with abusing children in her care and creating pornographic images of them at that nursery in numbers so far unaccounted for – it could be dozens, hundreds…if the the thousands of photographic images are anything to go by. Police report the images seized are extremely disturbing.
This woman has violated children and their families; it never feels ‘right’ to hand your precious child over to a complete stranger and you want to believe with all your being that they would lay down their own life for your child’s…just as you would yourself. This is the risk all parents take when they use childcare nurseries, most fears are unfounded but in this case parents and their children were deceived by the friendly, smiling face of Vanessa George. Personally I never used childcare facilities because I never trusted anyone else enough to care for my own children; nobody cares for my child better than I do and that has always been my answer to anyone who chose to criticise me for having the temerity to stay at home and raise my children myself.
That is one of the most infuriating aspects about this situation and what Vanessa George has done to these children and their families; she abused the trust that childcare industry employees work so hard to earn from parents. When she was driven away from court this morning I hope the screams and shouts from furious people reached her as she sat in the back of that prison van, I hope she felt real fear and in some way that her safety was jeopardised and violated. Much more than a devil she was a monster in disguise.
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Well said.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing also; you only have to look into the eyes of this female to see the evil in her – that’s the problem though, she masked that evil with a smile so that those poor parents could not know what kind of a monster they were leaving their precious children with. Only now can we all see her for what she is – people like this truly are the devil incarnate to be able to disguise themselves and their evil actions so well.
Like you, I also brought my own children up as I didn’t trust anyone within the system. I am fed up with women trying to have it all – if you want a family, you can’t have a career – it is not fair on the people you work for and most definately not fair on your children. Young children should only be parted with when they are old enough to understand the world around them and if we all stuck to this, cases like this one wouldn’t happen.
I agree with you to a point Lisa. I understand that there are some women who find themselves in the position of not being able to afford to stay at home with their children no matter how much they want to – they are different to those who place a six week old baby in long daycare and go straight back to work just to hang onto their careers. In such a case I have to ask why they bother – why is a job more interesting or fulfilling than nurturing that new life you have spent nine months creating…? why pay others to do the job you should be doing with your own child…?
That’s another issue though. When I first became a Mum 23 years ago I vowed to raise my children myself and that they would come first to the best of my ability; having done this with all five of my children – and my youngest has just turned five – I have to say that we went without holidays, a second car, a lot of material things – but my children had their Mum for those first important years and not a series of ‘carers’. I simply did not trust anyone to care for my children as well as I could; I once placed my third child in a preschool for two days a week just so that he could have some little friends to play with and the experience for both of us was horrendous as I was to discover that several members of staff were not capable of looking after small children. This despite the very fancy ‘image’ of the place…he was never taken to the toilet, I frequently collected him in the afternoon to find him in soiled, wet pants which led to a severe rash on his bottom that needed treatment. I withdrew him from the place and reported the nursery to the authorities. That was my experience with nursery school – it last three weeks and that was enough for me – after that my last two children spent their first five years at home with ME! at least I knew they were safe.
I have always said that as you age you can always try to recapture your own youth – you can never, ever recapture your children’s.