A teaching assistant who helped her husband secretly film young girls taking a bath at their home has been jailed for two-and-a-half years today.

Judge Nicholas Webb told Rosemary Foxall as he passed sentence: “It was a monstrous breach of trust and invasion of privacy.”

She has also been banned from working with children for life and ordered to sign on the sex offender’s register.

But relatives of her young victims today hit out at the sentence, insisted they expected her penalty for luring the girls to her home to be more severe.

Foxall was facing a sentence of between one and four years for luring youngsters to her home, for husband Martin to film them in the bath and during sleepovers.

Police are happy with the sentence.

Foxall, who also worked as a dinner lady and youth worker, has already spent two weeks in prison, after being found guilty of ten charges of making indecent videos and photographs of children and possessing 147 indecent images of them.

Martin Foxall killed himself in August last year after being questioned by detectives.

His 49-year-old wife, of Sadler Road, Brownhills, was convicted following a two-week trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court, which heard she had used her role as a school worker to befriend girls and invite them back to her home to swim in the pool in their garden.

She then encouraged them to have a bath afterwards so her husband could capture them on film through a peephole in the loft.

When their young visitors heard noises above them, she told them there were “squirrels in the loft.”

The couple put sex aids on view in the bathroom and pornography was left lying around the house.

The sister of one of the girl’s filmed insisted after today’s hearing the sentence was not enough for “destroying her faith and trust” in people.

The woman, who cannot be named to protect her relative’s identity, said: “I thought she would have received a much stiffer sentence. In my opinion two-and-a-half years was not enough.

“My sister is very clingy to our mother at the moment and has gone into her shell. She has really been affected by what has happened. She has lost her trust in people and doesn’t like to spend time on her own.

“She is really struggling to come to terms with what she has been through. Rosemary Foxall has caused a lot of distress and hurt not only to my sister, but to all those other girls who were innocent victims.

“She has destroyed my sister’s trust and faith in older people. She is receiving counselling to try to deal with what has happened.

“She used to really enjoy going round to Rosemary’s house and thought a lot of her.”

Det Insp Gordon Roberts, of West Midlands Police said: “We are delighted with this sentence. This case involved two respected members of the community who exploited their position to target young girls invited to their home.

“We would like to thank the young victims in this case for their courage in assisting this prosecution case.”