A primary school teacher in Britain has been arrested after films showing him sexually abusing young girls in his classrooms, emerged.
Nigel Leat, 51, filmed shocking scenes of abuse against five carefully selected girls over the course of five years at Hillside First School in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
At the sentencing hearing at Bristol Crown Court, it was revealed how he would molest the girls as they practised their reading aloud in class, getting them to perform sex acts on him at the same time.
He could be heard in films referring to the girls as ‘sweetie pie’ and ‘darling’ and asking them how much they loved him.
The videos, in most of which Leat could be seen, showed girls were abused in the school's staff room and a resource room. He would film himself touching their bottoms and their genitals, including when they were changing their clothes to go outside.
The father of two had initially denied all the claims made against him, but confessed after police found the perverted films he recorded on his home computer.
"It is clear that these children had become well versed in doing what was expected of them," the Daily Mail quoted Simon Morgan, prosecuting, as telling the court.
"These were a myriad of offences over several years against exceptionally young children.
"The defendant took risks, he arranged the rooms in such a way as to avoid detection. The evidence shows that he took these opportunities to abuse these children," Morgan stated.
Leat, of Bloomfield Road, Bristol, has admitted 36 sex offences, including attempted rape of a child and sexual assault on children.
Leat has admitted to 23 charges of sexually assaulting a child under 13; eight charges of sexual assault by penetration of a child under 13; one charge of attempted rape of a child under 13; one charge of voyeurism; one charge of causing or inciting a child under 13 to commit sexual activity; and two charges of possessing child pornography.