Tracy Turner, 51, who worked as an operating theatre assistant at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales, wept in the dock as she admitted plotting to rape children with her boyfriend
A female hospital worker is facing jail after today admitting planning horrific sex attacks on a child. Tracy Turner, 51, a former operating theatre assistant at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales, entered a guilty plea for producing indecent images of children and orchestrating plans to rape a child.
A court heard Turner and her partner Stuart Compton, 45, plotted to carry out sex attacks on multiple children. They had previously been charged with hatching an alleged kidnap and murder of a girl under 13, but the court heard those charges would no longer be pursued.
Turner, who cried in the dock, admitted two counts of making indecent images of a child and six counts of arranging the commission of a child sex offence. Compton admitted six counts of arranging the commission of a child sex offence.
The charges include arranging the sexual assault of a primary school-aged child along with arranging the rape of a primary school-aged child. Turner and Compton, from Cardiff, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday.
Judge, Recorder of Cardiff, Tracey Lloyd Clarke adjourned the case for sentence on July 28. The pair have been remanded in custody, and were warned by a judge that a “lengthy” custodial sentence was inevitable.
She said: “I know you have both been told an immediate and substantial sentence is inevitable in this case.”Turner worked in the busy operating theatre at the 800-bed University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff until she was suspended after police were contacted.
Hospital bosses confirmed that they had been cooperating with police during the investigation.A spokeswoman for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board said: “The health board suspended the individual once we were made aware of the allegations against them.“This is a sensitive issue and the health board has been cooperating with partners in South Wales Police.“We are not able to comment further while court proceedings are ongoing.”