A GIRL told her mother of being touched all over by a naked male nursery carer, who she said had once been in the bath with her female carer, the High Court was told yesterday.
The mother said her daughter was almost four years old, and had left Newcastle's Shieldfield nursery months earlier, when she started telling her things about her former carers, Christopher Lillie and Dawn Reed.
The witness, who is the mother of the girl, was giving evidence at the High Court libel hearing brought by Mr Lillie, 37, and Ms Reed, 31.
They are suing Newcastle City Council and the four-member review team it commissioned to investigate Shieldfield. In its 1998 report, the team concluded that Mr Lillie and Ms Reed had sexually, physically and emotionally abused children from the nursery.
Four years earlier, they were acquitted of indecently assaulting children from Shieldfield.
The hearing continues
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