A FAMILY support worker showed colleagues a ‘disgusting’ indecent image of a two-year-old child being abused, a jury heard.

Irene Yadjia received a link to the inappropriate video on her mobile telephone and allegedly exposed it to fellow employees at Brent Council's Granville Plus Children’s Centre in Granville Road, Kilburn, in March last year.

The 38-year-old denies one count of distributing an indecent photograph of a child and is on trial at Harrow Crown Court.

Prosecutor Zoé van den Bosch told the jury yesterday: “In the course of her employment as a family support assistant she showed to three of her work colleagues working at that children’s centre in circumstances that they had not been given any warning and had not asked or invited her to show them that image.

“She indicated to her colleagues that she had received something disgusting on her phone.

“They had no warning and they had not asked that she show it to them.

“Her colleagues told her she had to report it to a manager.

“They expressed their disgust at what they had seen and expressed a degree of surprise at the blasé attitude shown by the defendant.

“She said she had  been sent it by a friend.

“ When she was told she should report it her response was: ‘Why should I? It’s my personal phone’.

“That’s the attitude they found troubling.”

The employees were preparing for an open day on the afternoon of Friday March 22 2013 when Yadjia received a link to the video on her mobile telephone.

Witness Andrea Broderick, who also works as a family support assistant in Kilburn, was shown the image.

She said: “At 4pm she was standing by the window going through her phone.

“Twenty minutes later she put the phone in my face and said: ‘Look what someone’s sent me.

“She didn’t say anything before. I looked at the phone for about five seconds, what I saw was really horrible.

“I said: ‘That’s really disgusting, who on earth would send you something like that’.”

The incident was later reported to managers and then Brent Council, which decided the matter should be reported to police, and Yadija was arrested on April 16.

Of the police interview Ms van den Bosch said: “She accepted she had been sent an image by a man she knew slightly.

“She didn’t know what to do about it and she didn’t know what she was opening.

“She showed it to colleagues because she was concerned about what she should do.”

The case involving Yadjia, of Churchill Gardens, Pimlico, south-west London, continues.