In March last year, a former Ramsgate carer, Paedophile Helen May, was imprisoned for sexually abusing a minor girl under her charge.
Claiming to have a “brief relationship” with the victim, Helen May, 49, of Hopes Lane, conducted a two-year campaign of abuse against the child while she was in care.
Helen May denied the accusations, but after a five-day Canterbury Crown Court trial, she was found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault on a child under sixteen.
The court heard about Helen May’s abuse of her victim between 1999 and 2001 while managing the now-shuttered Thanet care home.
Helen May admitted having a brief relationship with the victim after she left home, but she always denied having a relationship with her while she was still under her care.
Other staff members, nevertheless, found specifics of the relationship in the victim’s diary.
She denied a relationship with Helen May when asked about the entries, and it was only in 2016 that she felt qualified to disclose the abuse.
Helen May was caught and finally given a 12-year jail sentence.
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