Jayden McCarthy, the Brixham Paedophile, was incarcerated for sexually assaulting children at the nursery where he was employed, back in 2023.
Jayden McCarthy, then 18, was sentenced to 11 years and six months, with an additional three-year extended licence, as determined by a judge at Exeter Crown Court.
In May, a jury convicted Jayden McCarthy of one count of rape and 13 counts of sexual assault at the nursery in Torbay.
He was additionally convicted of two charges of raping a boy in a distinct incident in 2014.
An inquiry was initiated after a youngster at the daycare where Jayden McCarthy was employed informed their parents that he had sexually assaulted her.
During Jayden McCarthy’s trial at Exeter Crown Court, the jury viewed 13 CCTV recordings from July 2019 depicting him inappropriately touching eight youngsters.
He was engaged as an apprentice in March 2019 after undergoing an interview process and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.
The father of one of the victims told the court that his family had been through the “fires of hell” over the last two years, suffered from anxiety and depression and that Jayden McCarthy had “broken” them.
‘Emotionally challenging’
Judge David Evans said Jayden McCarthy, who was 16 at the time of the offences, posed a high level of risk given he could “barely contain” his sexual impulses while working at the nursery.
“You were placed in a specific position of trust and you exploited that situation,” he told him.
“It seems to me that sexual offending may be in your nature and a great deal of work may be needed to work it out,” the judge added.
Det Ch Insp James Stock, from the Public Protection Unit at Devon and Cornwall Police, said it had been an “emotionally challenging and incredibly complex case”.
An independent review into Jayden McCarthy’s abuse, commissioned by Torbay’s Safeguarding Partnership, is now due to be completed.
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