Babysitter raped girl
A GIRL of five was repeatedly raped by a registered sex offender after police, probation and social workers failed to warn her mother about his paedophile past.
Steven Watts, 43, conned the girl’s mother into letting him babysit.
A serious case review by Stockton-on-Tees Local Safeguarding Children Board revealed a catalogue of errors.
Jane Humphries, who chairs the board, said: “We regret we did not provide the mother of this child with information to enable her to adequately protect her daughter.”
The ex-Army sergeant was supposed to be under the supervision of police and probation after three previous convictions against girls.
Watts was jailed for six years last January.