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In a series of letters written to a male friend, (pedophile Vanessa George)
complains about suffering flea bites and rashes after washing other prisoners' laundry at Holloway Prison in north London for £16 per week.
But, in what will come as a shock to the parents of those she abused,
she is hoping to be permitted a move to an open prison in 2013, reported The People.
George, who is unable to apply for parole until 2016, wrote: 'Providing I carry on progressing it is possible I could make it to semi/open conditions.
I don't expect to stay here for a long time.'
Her letters also reveal how she is finding life inside prison.
She counts Top Gear and Coronation Street among her favourite television shows and even jokes that 'there are a few Tracy Barlows in here, ha ha,' referring to the ITV soap's murderess.
Sunbathing is one of her favourite activities and she has become a vegetarian due to her dislike of prison meat.
She wrote: 'I've been sunbathing with some of the girls in one of our association rooms.
The trick is to move with the sun so we don't get bar stripes.'
An official enquiry into George's crimes last year found that Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth provided her with an 'ideal environment' to carry out her abuse of children.
Her spiral into sexual depravity went unchecked by colleagues and managers despite her shockingly inappropriate behaviour at work, the report said.
The education regulator Ofsted was also severely criticised in the serious case review for not picking up concerns about the *private nursery, presiding over an inspection regime that was little more than a ‘tick-box’ exercise.
The report’s author, Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board, said that had it been in charge of the nursery’s regulation, Little Ted’s would have been shut down '18 months ago' - several months before George is known to have begun abusing children in her care.
The warning signs in the behaviour of George, a deputy special educational needs co-ordinator, included:
- Regularly showing colleagues and even parents hardcore pornographic images of adults on her mobile phone
- Open discussion of her sex life, using crude language, which included boasting of carrying out a sex act on Dartmoor with a stranger for money
- Offering to have sex with a mechanic in exchange for her MOT
- Telling friends she couldn’t keep up with the number of men she was involved with
- Informing the father of a child at the nursery that his son was ‘well-endowed’
- Using a cubicle to change *children’s nappies rather than the general changing area, which allowed her to hide her abuse of the children using her 18-stone bulk
Despite all these signs, no one at Little Ted’s questioned her suitability to be working with children.
George was seen as a larger-than-life character at the nursery, where others felt unable to challenge her increasingly sexualised conduct, according to the report.
Police believe George came into contact with nearly 200 children while working at Little Ted’s.
She admitted seven sexual assaults and six counts of making and distributing indecent pictures of children.
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