A Plymouth nursery worker and her two co-defendants have pleaded guilty to a number of charges relating to sexual assaults against young children.
Vanessa George, 39, Angela Allen, 39, from Nottingham and Colin Blanchard, 39, from Rochdale, appeared at Bristol Crown Court, having never met before.
The three admitted 37 of 38 counts of sexual assault and distributing indecent images of children
Abuse was recorded on mobile phones and images exchanged via e-mail and text.
Detective Superintendent Adrian Pearson said: "Those three individuals have shared quite willingly and freely images, texts, fantasies of the most serious level you could imagine."
Wept in court
The public gallery was packed with about 30 parents who wept as the guilty pleas were entered.
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