The four-year-old spent a fortnight with the man even after social workers learned of the suspicions about the man. The girl had been living with the foster carer for three months when police informed social services that he was suspected of accessing vile child abuse photos, a Family Proceedings Court was told.

On the same day, last May 14, the child informed her real father and a social worker that she had been “strangled” by another child at that home. But she was still returned to the foster carer. Her father, who was unaware of the indecent images allegation, called up police and an emergency social work team informed about what his daughter complained.