Girl, 3, uses gingerbread dolls to ‘show police that nursery assistant had raped her’, court hears

Girl, 3, uses gingerbread models to ‘show police that nursery assistant had raped her’, court hears Jayden McCarthy, 18, is accused of three child rapes and 13 sexual assaults He denies the charges which are all said to have happened in a nursery Harrowing evidence today heard alleged victim, three, spoke to her mother She had to be interviewed by police using gingerbread models for case

A three-year-old girl allegedly raped by a teenage nursery assistant had to be interviewed by police about the incident using gingerbread models.

The toddler was shown a gingerbread girl with long hair and a boy with no hair, the Exeter Crown Court trial of Jayden McCarthy heard today.

In a video interview shown to the jury the little girl, who was three at the time of the alleged offence in July 2019, was asked about telling her mummy that ‘someone has been naughty at nursery’.

Read the full article from the Mail Online below:

Contains detail some may find distressing.

Source: Girl, 3, uses gingerbread dolls to ‘show police that nursery assistant had raped her’, court hears

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