Last December, nursery worker Vanessa George was jailed for sexually abusing children at the nursery where she worked in a case that shocked Britain. In August this year Simon Beard, a youth consultant and trainer, was sentenced to 21 months after admitting to grooming online a girl who he believed was only 13 years old. There was also the jailing last October of LGBT Youth Scotland chief executive James Rennie for his role in a child pornography ring. And earlier this month David Robinson, who taught personal, social and health education at a school in Worcestershire, was sentenced to four years for having sex with a 15-year-old pupil.
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