A female nursery manager who watched horrific child abuse videos can be named for the first time as Alison Whateley.

Whately, 44, was working at Bushy Tails Day Nursery in Teddington, south west London when she told other paedophiles she found babies ‘f**king sexy’.

She has now been spared jail, but a judge ruled that it was in the public interest to identify her adding that none of the children at Bushy Tails had been abused by her.

Alison Whateley has been spared jail (Picture: INS)

Whateley shared her fantasies with other people online, including an undercover police officer.

Logging on at her home in Farnham, Surrey, she used the name ‘userXXX’ to encourage other people to share extreme footage and images.

The videos showed children as young as three being raped.

She used video conferencing website Zoom which is ‘known to be used by paedophiles’ and hosts online meeting spaces for up to 100 people.

Prosecutor Steven Talbot-Hadley said that she typed into the live chat that ‘she liked masturbating over boys and girls, the younger the better, and she particularly liked babies, saying they were ‘so fucking sexy’.’

Adding ‘younger the better’ and asking ‘anybody interested in very tiny children?’.

Guildford Crown Court heard that she had shared fantasies of raping babies online (Picture: PA)

She claimed that she had been using the service to track down and trap paedophiles to bring them to justice.

However, Whateley had recorded herself on Whatsapp as she masturbated while talking about abusing babies.

She also discussed the abuse of children and she contacted another paedophile who was under investigation.

In a statement read by her lawyer Whateley said: ‘I struggle to explain my actions. One day I accidentally found a chatroom with paedophilic material. I didn’t really have a plan, I did not really know what I was trying to do.’

Judge Peter Moss said: ‘A psychiatrist found that you gave a less than compelling reason for why you were viewing this material, to be seeking to entrap paedophiles as some sort of paedophile hunter.

‘You have accepted that is not correct because of your inactivity in doing something about it.’

A spokesman for the Bushy Tails nursery said: ‘We recognise the significant impact that events such as this can have on individuals and families.

‘We are saddened by the events and welcome the conclusion of the National Crime Agency’s investigation. We will always be supportive of outcomes which protect and ensure the safety, wellbeing and happiness of all children.

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‘Since the charge does not relate to our nurseries or the children we care for here, we feel it would be inappropriate to comment further.’

She was given a community order.