Overview
- Judge Claire Harden-Frost imposed 10 years in a young offender institution plus five years on licence at Guildford Crown Court.
- Thomas Waller was convicted on October 31 of rape, two counts of causing or inciting sexual activity, and taking indecent images.
- A mother reported her three-year-old’s disclosure to the nursery, which alerted police and led to Waller’s arrest the same evening.
- The CPS said he abused children during toilet supervision, with DNA found on one boy’s underwear and images of another boy recovered from his phone.
- The unnamed Surrey nursery says it suspended him immediately and strengthened safeguarding, with Surrey County Council and Ofsted involved in the response.