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A WOMAN social worker accused of child sex offences following a police investigation into sick paedophile nursery worker Vanessa George and Colin Blanchard appeared in court today. Tracy Dawber, 43, was charged as a result of an alleged link to Blanchard, 38. She faces four counts of possessing indecent images of children; five counts of permitting indecent images of children to be made; one charge of sexual assault on a child under 13; and a further count of facilitating the sexual assault of a child.  Dawber, who appaeared by video link, has previously pleaded not guilty to all the charges. During a short hearing ... Read Full Story

A CONVICTED paedophile fostered more than 20 vulnerable children over the course of four years, Wales on Sunday can reveal. Pervert pensioner David Anthony Roberts, 69, was accused of sexually abusing one of the children he was supposed to be caring for. The former pub landlord was trapped by his wife, Cheryl, who posed as a 14-year-old girl in an internet chatroom as Roberts performed a sex act on himself and sent her explicit messages, under the belief she was a teenage girl called Kelly. He was spared jail earlier this month after he admitted eight charges related to making and possessing indecent images ... Read Full Story

November 19th 2009 A MARRIED mother is to appear in court after being charged with child pornography offences, police revealed today. Melanie Gunn , 36, has also resigned from her role as learning support manager at a secondary school after being accused of the sex crimes. Gunn, the mother of a toddler, was arrested by police following a raid on her home in Alford, Lincolnshire (UK). Officers seized computer equipment including hard drives and disks during the search. When the equipment was examined officers allegedly found dozens of hardcore child porn images some of which show offences of bestiality involving small children. Yesterday Gunn ... Read Full Story

November 22nd 2009 SEVEN boy boarders at one of the State's most exclusive private schools have alleged they were raped by their female house mistress earlier this year. The boys have told police that the offences took place on the school grounds between February and June. Their 40-year-old "house mother'' (pictured left) appeared in Forster Court last week charged with 34 counts of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated indecency with the students. She was first arrested in August over offences against one boy, but has since been charged with assaulting six other students after continuing police inquiries. Her identity and the name of the ... Read Full Story

The Operation Santa Programme will still operate but the generically-addressed letters to Santa at the North Pole will no longer be forwarded to the Alaskan town     Since the Operation Santa programme started in 1954, the service has been forwarding up to 150,000 letters addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole" to volunteers in the small Alaskan town of North Pole every year. Replies come signed by a Santa elf and bear the all-important North Pole postmark. However, concerns about the service were raised last year when a postal worker in Maryland recognised a volunteer in the state's Operation Santa letter service as a ... Read Full Story