00:00This is a particularly disturbing and upsetting story.
00:06The Crown Prosecution Service said 22-year-old Roxana Lecker's crimes were discovered in June last year
00:14after she was sent home for pinching a number of children and appearing, quote-unquote,
00:21blustered at the Riverside Nursery in Twickenham in south-west London.
00:28Detectives from the Metropolitan Police went through CCTV from the nursery
00:34that showed her pinching and scratching children under their clothes, on their arms, legs and stomachs.
00:44She pinched several children dozens of times in the course of one day, causing them to cry and flinch away from her.
00:54In one incident, she kicked a little boy in the face several times.
01:01She was also seen to push babies headfirst over cots and cover a toddler's mouth when he started to cry.
01:09The Metropolitan Police said she had abused children at two London nurseries between October 2023 and June 2024.
01:21One of the counts related to little munchkins in Hounslow, with the remainder linked to Riverside, which has since closed.
01:29Lecker admitted to seven counts of cruelty to a person of the age of 16 and has been convicted of another 14 counts by a jury at Kingston Crown Court.
