A nurse at Aintree hospital who was caught with baby rape videos has been struck off.
John Wadeson worked at the hospital's emergency department in Fazakerley until he was exposed as a paedophile. He had previously helped victims of the Manchester Arena bombing while on placement at Bolton hospital.
After police raided his home on the morning of June 10 2020 they seized a Lenovo computer, an iPad and a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone, containing 142 child sex abuse images. The collection included 56 Category A indecent images - the most serious category showing child rape - of which 11 were videos.
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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust suspended Wadeson following his arrest. Wadeson later admitted three counts of downloading and one of possessing indecent images of children, plus possessing prohibited images of children and extreme porn, all between September 2016 and June 2020.
Judge Andrew Menary sentenced Wadeson, 30, of Borron Close, Newton-le-Willows, to eight months in prison, suspended for 12 months. during a hearing at Liverpool Crown Court last year. He was ordered to comply with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for five years and sign on the Sex Offenders Register for a decade.
Now following a hearing by the Nursing and Midwifery Council ( NMC) Fitness to Practise Committee , Wadeson has been struck off their professional register.
A key section of the NMC ruling read: "Mr Wadeson’s actions in making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children demonstrates a fundamental breach of trust and clearly damages the reputation of, and undermines trust and confidence in, the nursing profession.
"Integrity should be considered to be the bedrock of any nurse’s career and the criminal conviction undermines the good reputation of the profession.
"Mr Wadeson has breached fundamental tenets of the profession by failing to ‘uphold the reputation of the profession at all times’, failing to ‘keep to the laws of the country’, as per the NMC’s Code of Conduct, 10 October 2018."
The ruling addressed the distressing nature of the offences. It read: "The concerns in this case are not easily remediable and have not been remedied. Mr Wadeson committed serious sexual offences involving accessing, viewing, or any other offence relating to images or videos involving children.
"Sexual offences involving children are attitudinal and concerns associated with it are difficult, but not impossible, to put right."
An interim suspension order was put in place for 18 months, which will come into affect if Wadeson choses to appeal against the striking off order. This will prevent him from working as a nurse while the appeal is heard.
During a hearing last year at Liverpool Crown Court Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, described the images and videos linked to Wadeson. Mr Blasbery said the Category A files showed children as young as babies aged between newborn and 12 months. There were 35 also Category B images - including eight videos - involving boys just four to six-years-old.
Mr Blasbery told the court: "He said there was a period of time when indecent images of children were on his mind, he did accept responsibility for everything and his partner had no idea what was going on and was not aware of what he was watching - he was solely responsible."
Judge Andrew Menary, QC, told Wadeson his collection was "not as big as many that this court encounters" but the Category A files were "of the worst kind, plainly".
He said: "You realise now, if you didn't realise before, that this sort of activity has very real victims."
The judge added: "It feeds and encourages this sort of trade in appalling misery for the children involved.
"The impact on them, here and abroad, cannot be overstated, and though your activity is very remote from that, nonetheless, as I say, it plays a part in the continuation of this particular trade."
The NMC hearing took place on September 7. Wadeson did not attend.
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