Nathan Bennett was employed at a nursery, caring for toddlers, when he committed 21 sexual offences against five of them. These include two rapes, two sexual assaults by penetration, 12 sexual assaults, four incidents of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and one count of ‘engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child’. Bennett was found guilty on Monday, and will be sentenced on 16 March, although his punishment will not be as severe or final as it should be.

The truth is though that these crimes were entirely preventable and a result of political choices. Men pose a vastly greater risk to unrelated children than women do

Such crimes are acts of utter evil. I am the father of a toddler, a wonderful little girl. She is tiny, perfect, and innocent, as all toddlers are. The thought of someone hurting such a child, in such terrible ways, causes me to feel a cold rage for monsters like Bennett, or Vincent Chan, a nursery worker London who committed 56 sexual offences against very young children in his care.

The truth is though that these crimes were entirely preventable and........

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