FACING FUTURE: Andrew with Grace, left, and Pearl
FACING FUTURE: Andrew with Grace, left, and Pearl

Vanessa George is cold calculating scum, says husband

Loving marriage became nightmare of deceit

GUILTY: George is led away to await sentence
GUILTY: George is led away to await sentence
HELL HOLE: The small room George used to send out her sick pictures
HELL HOLE: The small room George used to send out her sick pictures
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THE traumatised family of nursery paedophile Vanessa George today tell how they unwittingly shared their home with PURE EVIL.

Husband Andrew reveals how the Facebook pervert kept her vile secret from him and daughters Pearl, 15, and 13-year-old Grace as she sat at her PC sending out sick pictures of the tiny children she'd abused.

And, in her own moving account, brave Pearl tells how she has disowned her "poisonous" mother.

Andrew said: "I call her monster now. And the kids don't want anything to do with her."

Hammering

IT was midnight - and the silence in nursery worker Vanessa George's home was shattered by police fists hammering on the front door.

Her family awoke with a start. In the next few minutes their quiet, ordinary lives would be blown apart.

And her husband Andrew will be haunted forever by the words that fell from the lips of the woman who had been his childhood sweetheart.

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Speaking for the first time of his life with the nursery paedophile whose crimes have shaken Britain, Andrew says: "We stumbled downstairs. Vanessa opened the door and said, 'The police are here'. My first thought was that someone had died. But there were so many of them. They sat us down on the sofa and I was looking at her - and she KNEW.

"She didn't look scared. She was cool, calm, focused."

"There was a wall of officers all around us. There was so much going on. Then she calmly just came out with it," he says, a look of astonishment still on his face.

"She turned to me, and said, 'I'm sorry Drew but basically I've befriended someone on the internet and I've been taking pictures of children, and sending them to him.'

READ: A daughter's agony

"Then she said sorry again. But it was empty. Without emotion. There were no tears. I remember saying, 'I don't understand.' I was so confused.

"Now I see her as cold, calculating scum - and I don't want her to ever see our kids again."

Exclusive interview with Andrew George, husband of nursery paedophile Vanessa George

Today Andrew, 41, and daughters Pearl, 15, and Grace, 13, tell in their own words of their horror at discovering the wife and mother at the centre of their family was a monster and baby molester in the middle of a Facebook paedophile ring.

They reveal how she sat at the computer in her "cubby hole" off their front room night after night secretly sending out scores of pictures of children she had abused at the nursery to internet pal Angela Allen, 39, and Colin Blanchard, 38, the evil pervert she wanted as her lover.

Gas fitter Andrew, Drew to his wife, also tells how he realised their love as "besotted soulmates" had somehow gone sour but he had no inkling of the depraved obsession that caused her to freeze out him and their daughters.

"We had a very loving relationship - and a pretty good sex life too," he said. "She was my soulmate - we were besotted.

"Every morning before I'd go to work we'd have a cuddle and a kiss. We'd say, 'I love you', and, 'Have a groovy day'," says Andrew. "She'd send me texts or give me a call to see how the day was going. Saying, 'How you doing, love. See you later'.

"Most days when I came home we'd have a hug and a kiss. I'd walk in through the door, and she'd come to hug me, and I'd be like 'Hang on, let me get my boots off first'.

"I'd call her my Poppy after the flower. She liked that.

"But then she starting to spend more time on the computer, and we weren't as close. We were going to bed at different times.

"She just stopped doing anything round the house and there was never anything organised for the girls for school in the morning. And now, looking back, I can see why."

Andrew erupts as the anger rises up at how she fooled her family.

"I just can't believe the woman I used to love, and gave 20-odd years of my life to, has done this," he storms. "She was brilliant with kids. She got that nursery place through Ofsted reports. She was even doing work courses on how to spot child sex abuse earlier this year.

"But that meant she probably knew how to hide it better. She outsmarted everybody.

"I remember her watching news programmes, and if a paedophile came on screen she would stand up and shout 'f****ing b*****d, cut his f*****ing balls off'.

"I call her the monster now. She's evil. Pure evil. And the kids don't want anything to do with her."

Eighteen-stone George pleaded guilty on Thursday to 13 charges - seven of sexual assault on a child, five of distributing indecent images, and one of making indecent images.

At the time she was a nursery assistant looking after babies and toddlers at Little Ted's Nursery in Plymouth. She carried out despicable sex acts on them which she snapped on her mobile phone - but making sure none showed the children's faces.

The disbelief at the cold, hard facts still shows on Andrew's face. He recalls the day after the midnight arrest in June when it really hit home what she had done.

The family were assigned a police liaison officer who began gently explaining to him what had happened.

"He said Vanessa had allegedly been taking pictures of children and sending them to other people. I asked 'What, paedophiles?' and he said 'Yes'. As soon as I used that word, I couldn't believe it.

"I remember her as a good mother. She was good with our children when we were raising them.

"But now I've had to think, 'Were my kids safe'. I had to ask, 'Do you remember anything, do you think she interfered with you?'

"My girls have confirmed they weren't - but it's a horrible thing to have to do."

More horrible still was the revelation that all of George's crimes had happened right under the family's noses - as she sat at her PC, in an open cubby hole near the living room, communicating with her evil pals, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen.

When sat there sending her vile pictures to her sidekicks, George's bulk would protude from the room so the door had to be kept open.

But the cunning paedophile used a series of tricks to ensure she was never found out.

Andrew says: "She used a glass door, which she left at an angle so she could see into the living room in the reflection.

"She positioned it right on me. Every time I got up, she'd have something innocuous on screen - it would be something normal like a news site, or a webcam of some building. Sometimes it was Facebook.

"She'd hate it if I came up behind her and would quickly change screens. She'd say, 'What do you want?' or, 'What are you doing?' She wouldn't want anyone near her.

"She wanted me and the girls out of her hair so she could be on the computer. We'd have fights about that computer. She'd become obsessed."

Elder daughter Pearl, 15 - speaking with the blessing of her father - said: "She was an OK mum at first. She used to take us shopping and buy us sweets and treats after school.

"But we didn't realise how little she was doing by the end and how messy the house was. It was like she wanted to turn away from us and stopped making the effort.

"She only ever cooked sausages and pizzas in the oven, and she was so busy on the computer that she'd burn them so we had to throw them away."

Now Andrew believes that her Facebook meeting with IT dealer Blanchard - the fellow pervert she met on Facebook - triggered the massive change in her. "I think it was her obsession with him that turned what appeared to be a respectable woman into a monster," he says. "Blanchard fed off it. She was competing for his attention."

Colleagues of George's at Little Ted's nursery told how earlier this year, she began boasting of wanting an affair with Blanchard, and meeting strangers for sex.

Police computer experts have told Andrew that George's contact with Blanchard - previously on the Sex Offenders Register for earlier child porn offences - began around December 29 last year, and from then the contact between the two increased. Andrew says: "You can imagine Blanchard leading Vanessa on, and then finding out that, bingo, she works for a nursery school. Now he has access to kids through her."

He admits that her craving for other men might also have been triggered by the fact she had been with him since they were teenagers and had few previous sexual partners. "She was 16 and I was 17 when we met," he says.

But he reveals she had already strayed during their 16-year marriage with a close friend of his. The betrayal prompted him to sleep with other women as revenge, but then the couple called a 'truce'.

Andrew says: "She had an affair in 1996 which I only found out about six years later. I guess that shows how devious she can be, and how good she is at keeping secrets. I found out through a friend of hers and it really hurt. I went on a revenge thing, I suppose to make myself feel better. I ended up sleeping with other women.

"We called a truce and said we'd start again. But it took at least five years before it stopped hurting." Andrew has since learned from George's work colleagues that she was also using the internet to meet strangers for sex, taking explicit pictures of herself. She would then send them to Blanchard.

Andrew believes she was upset that Blanchard kept failing to turn up whenever she invited him to illicit sex trysts in hotels.

"She was boasting to her friends about meeting up with strangers. All on the internet. Probably half a dozen, I don't know. It's awful to think about," says Andrew. "I think she took pictures of herself with other men, because she was upset he wasn't meeting her. I received a charge on my card for a room she reserved at a Premier Inn in Rochdale, which he didn't turn up to.

"She tried to lie to me, but I know now that was for him. All the other men were to make him jealous."

Yet just months before she began her depraved online relationship with Blanchard, it looked like her marriage to Andrew was getting back on track. "The best night we had together in a long time was down at our caravan in Cornwall last season at Halloween. I was dressed up as Count Dracula type thing and she was a witch," he says. "There was a Coldplay tribute band on and we were dancing.

"We had a good sex life. If we fancied it we'd go for it. Yes, I think the attraction was fading. She put on a bit of weight, and she was spending too much time on sunbeds, and starting to look bad from that.

"But I'm not a shallow guy. You can see people for what they are inside. We had some nice times.

"Even up until her arrest we'd tell each other "I love you'. It was still there."

Sickeningly, as George took part in her perverted internet encounters her sex drive at home increased, and she began approaching Andrew for more sex.

Now he has been left shattered and suicidal.

"I feel stupid and naïve. I keep asking 'Why did I never know?'," he says. "It's the same for me every single day, it doesn't go away and it won't go away.

"I want to take a s*** load of pills and be done with it, I feel like that now. But I've got my girls.

"Painkillers and anti-depressants, that's how I cope. I feel dirty, and tarnished and ashamed. People tell me I've done nothing wrong, but that doesn't help."

So far, George has refused to identify the tots she molested - believed to number about 30 - much to her husband's disgust.

Andrew says: "I would say to Vanessa, 'If you have a single shred of decency left in your soul you should do the right thing and co-operate with the police and end the torment of the families who still don't know if their children have been abused'. Sadly I don't think she will do anything that's not in her interests."

He is still reeling from the few strange conversations he has had with George since she was caught - and her total lack of remorse.

"She first called the house out of the blue about four weeks after her arrest," he says. "She just said, 'Hi, only me.'. It was as if she was on holiday somewhere. I was shocked. I didn't expect it.

HER EVIL ACCOMPLICES: Perverts Allen and Blanchard
HER EVIL ACCOMPLICES: Perverts Allen and Blanchard

"We never spoke about why she was inside. It sounds weird but that's how it is. Later she was ringing quite a few times a week, not for long. There was never any talk of being sorry for what she'd done. For the victims."

About six weeks after her arrest, Andrew visited George on remand.

He said: "I had to be careful, but I couldn't help saying to her she'd done something terrible.

"She tilted her head and there was a pause then all I got was an "Mmmm." Nothing more."

"I said that we needed to talk about a divorce and she said 'No, not until this is over'. I told her I'm going to the sentencing, as I need to get closure.

"But she was so blasé and confident about it. She said "I'll get four (years) and be out in two'."

While Andrew bravely tries to support his daughters through their on-going nightmare, he's still afraid people will think he was implicated.

He says: "I didn't know anything at all. The police have made clear that I was never a suspect, but a victim.

"But people are being kind and very supportive. I even received a beautiful card from Vanessa's colleagues at Little Ted's nursery, telling me how sorry they were.

"Now she's pleaded guilty I want to ask her questions about what she did. I want to know why she's done all this. I'm entitled to know that. I gave her my life."

Why we won't hide

REVEALING why his family have come forward to talk to the News of the World Andrew said: "I've talked things through very carefully with my daughters every step of the way. They agreed we should do this. They are happy to be photographed and named with me. We have nothing to hide."

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id just like to say the only persons i feel sorry for are her kids and husband she should get life for wat she has done

By grant .. Posted November 14 2009 at 12:16 AM.

It is absolutely terrible what has happened but I think most people here don't truly care about children as the paedophile thing is the latest paranoia to sweep across nations. Most people's thinking hasn't radically changed in fifty years so where were all this anti paedo sentiment in the past? Why only in the last fifteen years has this become such an issue. I would suggest it is media provoked and a great way to increase snooping on citizens as this is so much easier when the enemy is within.

12.000 kids die every night in the sick world in which we live and Britain and the USA help contribute to both in the nature of weapons sold overseas and economic policies which the poor suffer from.

Of course the abuse of children is horrific but so are the car drivers who kill and maim hundreds of kids a year and which is a far greater abuse of children than sexual abuse - I mean in terms of the numbers afflicted.

I think any abuse of children is tragic but we live in a society that condones or is silent to an abuse of children which has has caused the death and suffering of children globally on a scale far far exceeding genocides. In fact I would say the suffering of children and the poor is the greatest unspoken holocaust and persistent holocaust of humanity. Sort of makes a bit of child abuse pale into insignificance.

By Lim Dong Cheol.. Posted October 21 2009 at 2:39 PM.

god love the wee kids i hope they all rot they should get life

By paula.. Posted October 17 2009 at 8:37 PM.

one of the sickest stories i have ever heard in my whole life. i hope the parents find out if it was their children who were abused or not and i hope that andrew and his girls will someday be able to move on from this, to some degree, though something like this, i would imagine, would stay with them the rest of their lives.

By Samantha.. Posted October 5 2009 at 1:54 AM.

I hope the 3 sicko's rot in jail and hell
Sicko's
I feel so sorry for her family

By Jake.. Posted October 5 2009 at 1:42 AM.

i hope that andrew and his two daughters can get over this terrible mess. I went through a simular thing with my daughter 12 yrs ago, but the police dropped the charges because it was a 7 yr old against an adult who was a friend of my ex partner, it was only later that i found out that she had been having an affair with the abuser. but my ex went and told everone it was me, for which i have been in the recieving end of no end of abuse. I still have not got over what happened to my daughter i have recieved help but you never truly get over it, the guilt i feel for not noticing the signs and what he did to her will haunt me to my dying day

By ian kenny.. Posted October 5 2009 at 12:14 AM.

its time that we got our priritys right it seems to me that if you pinch money no mtter the amount it usually warants a greater prison sentence than some sadistic pig who prays on young children the fact that a childs life has been ruined for ever as i can assure you you never forget seems immiterial and alight sentence punishment should fit the crime firstly casteration surgical not drug induced ,second a good lenth sentence minimum of 10 years thirdly once releaced no annonimity and left totheir own devices and if the are smacked about a bit well so beit the rapist or pedophile has relinquishe any human rights as he or she will not have had any thought about others rights. if you notice human rights are usually demanded by those who have never had any thoughts for the rights of others and of corse worse of all is those leaches who make thousands tryng to get these animals all the rights that the victim is denied

By Michael Hughes.. Posted October 5 2009 at 12:08 AM.

In response to the comments made by Sindy about Vanessa George getting out in a couple of years and being given help at the tax payers expense, unfortunately you're right about that, and it's an absolute disgrace that she should get ANY help at all. What else annoys me about this case is the hypocrasy of our government talking on about making 'cuts' in public services, etc.. But Hey presto! Money seems to magically appear to help out scum who aren't fit to live. Why? Because our government are afraid to stand up to political correctness and the interfering 'Eurocrats' who bang on about so-called 'human rights!'

By Sarah .. Posted October 5 2009 at 12:04 AM.

I sympathise whole-heartedly with the parents of these poor children. To entrust your child into the care of others, only to see that trust shattered is a terrible thing. "It will never happen to me". But it can. I lived with a man for 10 years without realising that he was systematically preying on my daughters. When he realised the eldest was too strong a person, he then picked on the younger one who is disabled. Despite several credible witnesses he was found not guilty after 18 months of investigations. Despite the fact the police and everyone else involved believed my daughters. For him the story stops here - for myself and my daughters it doesnt end. They live the nightmare daily.
I hope Mr George and his daughters can rise above this nightmare. It takes a lot of determination and strength of character. I hope they will get there.

By d43.. Posted October 5 2009 at 12:00 AM.

this woman is nasty i hate people like this...

By yarluck.. Posted October 4 2009 at 11:25 PM.

You have no idea what its like to wake up and find out you're married to one of these monsters. "How could he/she not have known?" people scream from the roof tops. I'll tell you how, because they are so thorough in their deceit. They are experts at lying and covering up; they are in denial themselves and worst of all guilt drives them to be the most loving and attentive of partners. Wrongly or rightly, it somehow seems so much worse when its a woman involved in this sickness. Why is that?

By Nancy.. Posted October 4 2009 at 11:09 PM.



Theres an election coming up.
when the representatives come canvassing, ask if they support the death penalty for pedophiles , when they say 'no' , tell them to come back when they do.

you will soon see them pick up the casue if it is connected with them getting in power.

By john.. Posted October 4 2009 at 11:04 PM.

reading all the emails, I also hope they all get the attention of the judge,so she think she will get just four years out in two, and may I add a new life at the tax payers exspense,, never mind the poor families and young children who were at the hands of this monster, the goverment has to come out from the rocks they hide themselfs under and make sure the judge,s have got to increase their jail term.
but then at the end of the day when as this goverment ever listened to the public,

By sindy.. Posted October 4 2009 at 10:55 PM.

This makes me wonder why people were up in arms about volunteers having to go through the new Vetting & Barring scheme - check as many people as possible, guess some will always slip through the system but the more you check the more you stop surely

By Dawn.. Posted October 4 2009 at 10:17 PM.

Allen, Blanchard & George are three reasons why the death penalty should NEVER have been abolished. The husband and daughters deserve our support and sympathy. I agree with nearly all the views on here.

By Paul.. Posted October 4 2009 at 9:35 PM.

I think this should be a wake up call for the goverment, she not even worried about going to prision and why should she if she is just looking at a 4year sentance of which she will serve 2 years. the more must be done to protect children; for a nursery worker who must be police check to be able to do this is scary.

By Anna Prior.. Posted October 4 2009 at 8:06 PM.

Feel so sick and saddened for those poor children. Hope she and her sick pervert mates all get life in prison and justice is served there by the inmates at least.

By Deb.. Posted October 4 2009 at 7:57 PM.

I feel for the girls and her husband and the families involved, but as far as i'm concerned she should be hung!!!

By Moody.. Posted October 4 2009 at 6:49 PM.

i'm going to suggest how absolutely weak and self-serving this woman was. i can never imagine a woman doing this sort of thing. it is so counter-intuitive. she choose to over-ride the morality of this situation and decided to "go for it". there's no way her acts were sexually driven. what drove her to this was her sexual attraction and animalistic desire to be desired by the other woman and the predatorial male. 30 children puts her in the bracket of the most heinous of criminals / child molesters. that should be how her sentence is prescribed.

By paulita.. Posted October 4 2009 at 4:55 PM.

feel so sorry for andrew and the girls just as much as the victims and their familillies. i hope they can re-build their lives, andrew dont give up stay strong for your girls, they need you!

By misha.. Posted October 4 2009 at 4:10 PM.

These vile bits of excrement should be put in prison for LIFE with the recomendation that they serve at least until they come out in a wooden box.
Why should they ever be allowed to know freedom again.
The poor victims will never know that again, they have destroyed their childhood.
Personally I think it's about time the goverment listened to the overwhelming opinion from the public that the death penalty reinstated.
Excrement like this should be hung.
I can only hope that with time the victims and this includes the husband and his children, can at least come to terms with what has happened and can try to rebuild their lives. Stay Strong all of you and remember every parent up and down the land is right behind you.

By Lorna.. Posted October 4 2009 at 2:51 PM.

feel so sorry for the daughters with a evil mother like that who cares about the money

By mary kiernan.. Posted October 4 2009 at 2:13 PM.

What an awful thing to discuss, whether or not this poor family were paid or not?!
For goodness sake can people in the UK not comprehend the trauma this poor man and his daughters are going through and will be going through for the rest of their lives?! have a shred of decency yourselves and shame on those who have questioned whether or not they were paid!! They have NOT 'gained' anything at all, they have LOST every aspect of what they thought was the truth for their whole lives!!!!! imagine finding this out about any of YOUR family - let alone your wife / mother!!

I commend the fact they have stood up for themselves, they are victims of the vile being that committed these crimes and their whole lives have been turned upside down. Did they have a choice in that? NO! They worked and went to school etc so how they were supposed to 'keep themselves to themselves' as 'Cyd' posted when people know them and know what has gone on I dont know?! That has infuriated me! Im sorry but there really are some small minded people out there and I would like to see what they would do if they found themselves in this position!!!!

Andrew, Pearl and Grace you can hold your head up high. I hope you all receive the counsellng and closure you need in order to move on from this. Look after yourselves and look to the bright future you all deserve. Good Luck and remember there are some decent people in the world x x x

By Sash.. Posted October 4 2009 at 2:28 PM.

why does the justice system not lock sick twisted people up for life when they rape, abuse,or harm kids in any way ,it is the worst crime a person can commit. its a slap in the face to all these little innocent babies and their families if they get 2 or 3 years. what a joke!

By caz.. Posted October 4 2009 at 1:30 PM.

I have no problem if he has been paid ,he and his two girlls are victims of this evil woman too,just how many lives has she destroyed.Lets hope she gets a shock if she believes she will be out in two years ,life and nothing less.

By maureen.. Posted October 4 2009 at 1:21 PM.

Poor man and his children, i only hope they can all move on with their lives. as for the peadophiliac b**** that assualted all these young children. they should bring back the death penalty! but then again.. as the british justice system is about as hard as a new pillow. she will get maybe 5 years in the slammer.

By ciaran.. Posted October 4 2009 at 1:20 PM.

The judge should add an extra ten years for the fact that she won't give the names of the little ones that she assaulted. She should be hanged...the evil mare.
God's blessings to her family who are also victims.

By Sian.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:50 PM.

Of course the family is innocent. I should imagine that with no money coming in due to the bestial notoriety of his paedeophile wife, a donation for his story from the News of The World will be very helpful in relocating this betrayed family.

By philip harrison.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:33 PM.

i feel sorry for him and the families of the children that evil cow did it to. Poor daughters... what must they of thought. I hope that he and his daughters can over come this.

By Tracey.. Posted October 4 2009 at 11:57 AM.

the lawyers of v.george will most probably instruct her not to name the children concerned & she probably will get some pathetic sentence as thats what british justice is like,pathetic!!!

By s.armstrong.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:27 PM.

I'm not surprised he came out with his story. You know how people are saying no smoke without fire etc. He has to put his side of the story showing him and his daughters are innocent otherwise people will forever be pointing the fingerl. They are victims too and I feel desperately sorry for them as they will be haunted too.
Good luck to them. Hope they can start life again.

By Emma.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:20 PM.

I would like to know why so many of you are more concerned about whether this family have been paid or not, surely the victims should be of more concern. It is time the law is changed, and the abusers have less rights. This family are also victims of an evil woman. Lets concentrate on supporting the victims and punishing the abusers, its irrelevent if this poor family have been paid or not.

By Tracey.. Posted October 4 2009 at 11:25 AM.

I sincerely hope the judge who is responsible for the sentencing is reading this and taking on board the confidence this vile parasite has on her sentencing - four years and out in two - i think this is the ideal opportunity to let British Justice seen to be truly done around the world - she should get at least 30 years. Its the only voice those helpless victims have so use it LOUD AND CLEAR !!!!!! For once dont let them down.

By sue.. Posted October 4 2009 at 10:38 AM.

The cynic within me wonders whether they'd have told their 'heartfelt' story if they weren't getting paid.

The police are very good at following up crimes when they involve sex or drugs, but have no interest when it comes to white collar crimes committed by 'respectable' members of society.

These three worhtless examples of humanity will be out in a couple of years - like the baby rapist girl. Britain is a sick joke.

By Tony Carboni.. Posted October 4 2009 at 10:45 AM.

My heart goes out to Andrew George and his daughters. How terrible for them to find out that the wife and mother they thought they knew is a monster , but from my own experience, having been married for almost 3 decades when my husband left to live with someone he met on the internet, I wonder if you can ever truly know anyone.
I hope they will all be able to move on, given time, and have the happy lives they all deserve.

By jane.. Posted October 4 2009 at 10:44 AM.

My heart goes out to this poor man and his two daughters. What they must be going through is heartbreaking and I commend their courage for allowing their pictures to be published - not that they have anything to hide at all.

I wish them well and hope they can start to rebuild their lives

By Louise.. Posted October 4 2009 at 11:06 AM.

Poor man. I hope he and his girls can find strength in one another and I hope there will be no hounding of this family who are in the grip of a terrible tragedy. They need everyon's help and understanding now and for a long time to come.
Very brave man and daughters.

By Rachael.. Posted October 4 2009 at 11:13 AM.

My admiration and prayers go to you and your daughters and the young children who suffered at the hands of these monsters, i truly hope the justice system doesnt let everyone down and these depraved animals get what they deserve

By unknown.. Posted October 4 2009 at 11:01 AM.

The poor man and his family.He was not to know what she was doing.He was fooled by her and what she realy was.I hope he can move on for the sack of his daugthers.

By Fiona.. Posted October 4 2009 at 10:58 AM.

i take my hat off to this family,they are just as much victims as the abused,how do you comprehend this.WHY ISNT OUR GOV INCREASING THESE SENTANCES OR TAKING TOUGHER ACTION.If you look into the practices of victorian britain,child abuse was rife among the privalidge,docs,politicians and gentry would pay poor families large sums for their childs virginity.I believe this still happens only they let low lifes take the blame.IS THIS WHY THEY WONT UP THE ANTI ON PUNNISHMENT,THEY ARE PROTECTING THEMSELVES.two years for taking someones innoconce and ruining someones life but your giving people who rob and take drugs the same sentance.people have committed manslauter by accident(i.e you hit someone,they die)they get 8yrs,the paedo will kill someone mentally and physically and get little sentence.GOOD OLD BRITISH JUSTICE!!!! WE SHOULD BE PROUD???NOT!!!

By tios.. Posted October 4 2009 at 10:09 AM.

For those of you bitching about whether or not this family were paid for their interviews you should maybe click on the link and read Pearl's story. Her and her sister are as much victims of this awful woman as the children she abused as is her husband. I for one hope they WERE paid as they will need all the help they can get to rebuild their lives, while this vile woman will be protected at our expense when she comes out of prison because of the idiocy of the pc human right brigade. While this family will be left to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives on their own.

By Wendy.. Posted October 4 2009 at 9:52 AM.

Whether he was paid or not (and nobody has said he was) he and the girls are also victims lets not forget that they have lost their mum - not much of a loss but they have still lost her and he has lost the wife he loved. They he have had to go from 2 incomes to 1 and because of the stigma attached they are going to probably have to move which is expensive as people are always going to make assumptions.
I think he and his girls are very brave to be photographed as they could have just hidden away but they didn't as they have nothing to hide I would like to wish them all the best for the future.

By Stephanie.. Posted October 4 2009 at 9:21 AM.

I would just like to sayam disgusted with this crime, but i applaud the family for maintaning there dignity and telling there story i can only imagine how difficult it is going to be for the daughters putting up with playground bullies good luck to all 3 of u xx

By claire .. Posted October 4 2009 at 9:30 AM.

2 years is not enough these were BABIES who could not tell anyone what was going on. it should be a life sentence and life should mean life

By LEANNE.. Posted October 4 2009 at 9:25 AM.

My heart goes out to this family, it must be devastating for those poor girls. I hope they have been paid for their story as they needed to tell their side, also will need all the support they can get, financially and otherwise to get their lives back on track!!

By Linda.. Posted October 4 2009 at 9:02 AM.

This is a shocking story. They are as well to do the interview now as they are only going to be hounded by the press anyway. I am totally shocked at how evil this woman is - she deserves life for what she has done.

By Rachel.. Posted October 4 2009 at 9:13 AM.

I feel for this man and his daughters, they are also victims. I sincerely hope that nobody blames them, and that is probably the reason for the interview. As for the payment issue as he probably has to move and support two teenagers, I'd hardly say he was 'profitting'.

By Jo.. Posted October 4 2009 at 8:56 AM.

With all the horrors and pain they've been through, I hope they ARE paid if nothing else to pay for the psych fees they will all need. They're victims too, and they will live all their lives in this shadow.

By demented.. Posted October 4 2009 at 8:30 AM.

Just to say how sorry for Andrew George and his two daughters i am because people can be so secretive, within a family environment jsut to get what they want and I hope that sick and vile woman gets exactly what she deserves but the best way to deal with her is to send her to Holloaway Women's Prsion she will be treat with comtempt and disgust good I am glad and by the way good luck to Andrew and his girls in everything they do because I hopoe they can all move on and I hope they get all the support they need from their and family friends.

By Janey.. Posted October 4 2009 at 8:21 AM.

Why the hell are you all duscussing if he got paid or not for this article? what the hell has that got to do with anything??
Nobody else read the part where the evil monster thinks she'll be out in two years????? There should be uproar! get a grip you lot and lets get a campaign going to make sure she isn't out in two years!

By Donna.. Posted October 4 2009 at 8:18 AM.

While some might argue it's hard to believe he didn't know what kind of wife he was married to all those years - on the surface at least - he does come across as a fairly genuine bloke.

By Sarah Newton.. Posted October 4 2009 at 7:54 AM.

who cares if he was paid? he needed to tell his side of the story!!

By joanna Matthews.. Posted October 4 2009 at 7:26 AM.

Who cares if they where paid, they had the guts to disown that horrible woman!!! Its still hard to comprehend what has happened, you put your trust in these people when you leave you beloved children in their care!!

By Col B.. Posted October 4 2009 at 2:10 AM.

This man deserves a medal to put his face in public, he seems like a decent chap and you cant help feel sorry for the way he was duped and tricked by his wife, she is one real ugly woman and now tarnished with these vile sex attacks on kids makes her a real monster

By alan cross.. Posted October 4 2009 at 1:55 AM.

I do feel for this man and his daughters, I am from Plymouth and know the effect this has had on the community and felt it was wrong the husband and daughters had to move out of their home due to vigilantes. They obviously did not know their wife and mother was so sick and depraved, I don't think anyone would truely have thought this woman was capable of these horrific crimes. Hope things work out for Mr George and his daughters whilst fingers crossed she gets life..most of all thoughts are with the children and their families.

By Sara.. Posted October 4 2009 at 1:24 AM.

Well, if they were, maybe they could use it to get some extended counselling, as this would take a hell of lot of getting over.

By dee.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:51 AM.

Good luck mate.

I don't care if he was paid - he probably has costs to get that witch out of his life and to move away from the house and that.

He did nothing wrong and has 2 daughters to support on 1 salary. None of the money will go to her - what's the problem?

By Ben.. Posted October 4 2009 at 1:15 AM.

if they have been paid , its not making money at the expence of the victims. They are victims too. they have lost their mother and need support too. they are better off without the evil woman, i hope they can rebuild their lives and wish them all the luck in the world. it wont be easy for them . my heart goes out to the families of the babies too.

By e mcaleavey.. Posted October 4 2009 at 1:08 AM.

i understand what your all saying but if i was him i would like to move away and the only way to do that is with money,i hope they can get through this whether he has been payed or not!

By emlyn.. Posted October 4 2009 at 1:21 AM.

I hope he did get paid,he can give it to his daughters who are,along with him,victims in this terrible crime.How can you call it profit from the suffering families? They are also victims in this. Considering the large scale of the offence I dont think many will be thinking about money from an article ,which I think he needed to do for his own peace of mind,to let people know that he and his daughters are the innocent victims too.

By wh.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:37 AM.

Unless this man and his family keep their heads down they will be exploited by the media simply because this will sell papers. Get councilling soon as, and don't be tempted to be drawn into this appalling postmortem of embarresment. Your strength now should be for your girls, so please I know you're still in the shock of disbelief but get help, stay quiet do not conntact. respond to, or acknowledge this perverted human being, if you do it will only serve to be her oxygen of exhistance. leave her to rot.

By bejaybers.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:39 AM.

Takes a lot of courage and strength to talk so openly.

But I do hope they donated their fee to some charity. I'd to think they gained money out of such a disgusting crime, no matter who comitted it.

By Blighty Gal.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:03 AM.

it would be wrong if these people wer paid please tell the public if they were paid

By jude.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:09 AM.

Instead of giving interviews, they should have kept themselves to themselves.

By Cyd.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:11 AM.

people like this should not be allowed out of prison, its not a disease as some might say they know what they are doing and they should pay the price.
i hope Mr George and his 2 girls can get through this, with the love and support from family, friends and colleagues.

By dawn hughes.. Posted October 3 2009 at 11:38 PM.

I know this man and his daughters are innocent but i hope to god they haven't been paid for this interview, making profit out of the suffering of the poor families and their children.

By nic.. Posted October 3 2009 at 11:17 PM.

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