{"id":478562,"date":"2026-03-16T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478562\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:16:07","slug":"nursery-worker-sentenced-to-30-years-for-raping-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478562\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursery worker sentenced to 30 years for raping children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bennett &#8216;lurking ready&#8217; to abuse childrenpublished at 11:00 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:00 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\">Chloe Harcombe<br \/>BBC News, Bristol<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His Honour Judge Hart is now directly addressing Bennett, who has his eyes fixed on the floor, as he hands down his sentencing remarks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Describing Bennett as an &#8220;incorrigible and dangerous paedophile&#8221;, Hart said the paedophile had been &#8220;lurking ready&#8221; to abuse children and &#8220;pollute their innocence with your own vile desires&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because sexual interest in such very young children is thankfully very uncommon I find it impossible to predict how long you will remain such a danger,&#8221; he continued. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge highlighted the distress of the parents as well as the impact of Bennett&#8217;s crimes on the children, and said one victim&#8217;s recollection of what had happened to him six months on suggest &#8220;the abuse will live with him&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cEven if some of the children have no memory what happened, the parents will never forget,&#8221; Hart said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The victim impact statements speak of their torment and how their lives have been contaminated by what you did.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bennett &#8216;lurking ready&#8217; to abuse childrenpublished at 11:00 GMT 11:00 GMT Chloe HarcombeBBC News, Bristol His Honour Judge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-478562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}