28-year-old Female support worker shared bed with schoolboy and filmed them k!ssing and sent s3xual pictures wearing just a towel

A female support worker shared a bed with a 15-year-old schoolboy and sent him s3xual photos of herself wearing just a towel. Chloe Short, 28, was employed to help the teenager’s family when she filmed herself sharing a “s3xual” kiss with him. She had been paid to stay overnight at the family address to provide respite care.

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A fitness to practice panel was told she behaved in a “wholly inappropriate manner.” One picture Short sent the boy showed her in a towel after getting out of the shower. Another image showed the pair lying in bed together while the boy’s top was off as they shared a “short s3xualised kiss.” Short later messaged him, saying, “Thank you for the cuddles. Had a lush sleep with you.” She also told him she “missed him every second” and was “obsessed with him.”

The hearing was told Short was working for an organisation providing support for families and children. She was assigned to support the vulnerable teenager and carried out a series of home visits as part of her role. Short’s crimes were exposed when her girlfriend became suspicious about her behaviour and looked through her phone.

She was previously handed a ten-month suspended prison sentence after admitting s3xual activity with a child. During her sentencing hearing, a judge told Short her behaviour had been “very inappropriate” and that she had rejected the trust placed in her by virtue of her job.

The support worker, from Caerphilly, Wales, has now been struck off the professional care worker register following a standards hearing. Committee chair Steve Jones said the case was too serious to warrant any sanction other than striking off, adding, “The offence is so serious there will always be the risk with Miss Short working with vulnerable people.”