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Surrey Nursery Worker, 18, Gets 15-Year Sentence for Rape of Boys as Young as Three

Prosecutors said he isolated two three-year-old boys within weeks of starting at the nursery.

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.