Ms Whateley was the former manager of Bushy Tails Day Nursery and Pre-school in Teddington, a workplace nursery operated by Bright Horizons on behalf of the National Physical Laboratory. None of her offences involved children at the setting.
An undercover officer caught Ms Whateley making comments to other users in an online conference room where child sexual abuse was being streamed on 29 August 2017.
She was subsequently arrested, suspended from work and later dismissed.
National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators found an audio recording in which the former nursery manager was heard admitting to being a paedophile and expressing an interest in abusing very small children.
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