A NURSERY worker who abused young children in her care has finally named some of her victims, it is claimed.

Vanessa George (39), who worked at Little Ted's Nursery in the UK is said to have identified up to 10 of the youngsters.

The confession was made in custody and senior detectives are now examining the claims. Police in Devon said officers are investigating whether any of George's victims could be positively identified.

A spokeswoman for the force said: “As part of ongoing inquiries, detectives are involved in a dialogue with George's defence counsel, and the question of victim identification is part of that.

“It would be inappropriate to go into this further until sentencing is complete.”

George will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to charges of indecent assault, taking indecent photos and distributing photos of children.

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Co-defendants Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen (both 39) have also admitted several sex offences. The trio are said to have met on Facebook.

Transcripts of George's police interviews showed her admitting that her crimes were “vile” and “disgusting”.

But despite that realisation, she refused to name any of the children. Her change of heart has come just two weeks before her sentencing date.

After her guilty plea earlier this month, Mr Justice Royce urged her to give up the identities.

George took more than 100 images of children being molested, and referred to the mobile she used as her “fun phone”. Police could not identify any of the youngsters, whose heads were out of shot.

Around 30 parents of children who attended Little Ted's sobbed in the public gallery of the court as the admissions of guilt were made.

At the plea hearing on October 1, George admitted seven sexual assaults on children and six counts of distributing and making indecent pictures of children.

Blanchard pleaded guilty to 17 child pornography counts and two sexual assaults on children.

He also admitted a further charge of possessing extreme pornography. He was caught when a colleague found images on a computer.

He had been on the sex offenders register before after receiving a police caution for a previous offence.

Allen admitted four child sex assaults and one count of distributing an indecent image.

The trio recorded the abuse on their mobiles and then swapped the pictures via email using unprotected accounts, including MSN Hotmail. But they never met in person.