Nursery worker who abused 21 babies walks free after 'deportation blunder'

A nursery worker who was jailed for abusing 21 babies has been allowed to walk free after an alleged deportation blunder.

Roksana Lecka, 23, was sent back by to Poland without the right documentation - meaning local police were left unable to arrest her as she landed.

Lecka was sentenced to eight years behind bars in Britain after admitting to seven child cruelty offences and being found guilty of 14 more.

Since arriving back in her native country, she has disappeared.

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The 232-year-old's abuse at Riverside Nursery in Twickenham and Little Munchkins in Hounslow occurred between October 2023 and June 2024.

Her deportation to Poland was granted under an early removal procedure that sees foreign national criminals sent back home before serving their full prison term.

However, British officials mistakenly used a unilateral deportation procedure instead of a formal prison transfer, according to Polish authorities, meaning she was not taken into custody upon arrival.

It is now feared that Lecka could get another job working with children due to the blunder.

Polish Border Guard spokesman Major Dagmara Bielec confirmed the mix-up.

He said: “A Polish citizen expelled from Great Britain has returned to the country.

“But her arrival did not take place under any of the formal international cooperation procedures in force between Poland and Great Britain."

In another blunder, the 23-year-old was not registered with the correct criminal databases or international alert systems - meaning Polish police were not able to apprehend her immediately.

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She was allowed into the eastern European country at Warsaw Airport as if she was a regular traveller and her current whereabouts is currently unknown.

After it was announced that she would be sent back to Poland in February, a mother of one of Lecka's victims told GB News she received a "bolt from the blue" email from police that she was being deported.

She said: "The simple reality is she is being deported back to Poland having only served 14 months of her eight-year sentence.

"We haven't been given much information, but she will not be handed over to serve the rest of her sentence. She will be free to go."

"It just makes a mockery of the whole criminal system. No justice is being served, no punishment."

During her trial, Gemma Burns, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said the 23-year-old had "repeatedly showed exceptional cruelty in her treatment of these babies”.

CCTV footage captured Lecka kicking a child to the ground, pushing children over cots and pinching and scratching them under their clothes.

Ms Burns described the scale of the Polish woman's abuse as "staggering".

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