Investigation launched after furious mum confronts paedophile doing community service at a hospital
Daniel Mullarkey was given the role at South East London hospital after a community service order was imposed on him for trying to groom a 14-year-old girl
A MUM confronted a paedophile after spotting him working at a hospital.
Daniel Mullarkey was given the role as part of a community service order imposed on him for trying to groom a 14-year-old girl.
She called him a “paedo” and started filming him on her phone. He was immediately removed from the job as probation chiefs launched a probe.
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A source said: “It is astonishing Mullarkey was allowed to work in a hospital, where there are ill children and families.
“There was publicity about his case, especially locally, and his picture was in the papers. The woman saw him and was angry, so confronted him.”
Mullarkey, 32, was working in the grounds of Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, South East London, as he carried out his 200-hour penalty.
He got the sentence after being nabbed in a sting operation by anti-predator campaigners Internet Interceptors.
The married dad of two, of Croydon, pleaded guilty at the town’s crown court to attempting to meet a girl under 16 and grooming her for sex.
Mullarkey signed the sex offenders register and also has a sexual harm prevention order.
London Probation Service said he “did not work within the hospital itself, was constantly supervised and did not pose a risk to patients, staff or visitors”.