A WOMAN held over her alleged part in the Facebook paedophile ring has had her NINTH child, The Sun can reveal.
Tracy Lyons, 39, had a boy after going from jail to a maternity ward in secret.

But the infant was whisked away from her within an hour. Last night Lyons was back in Bronzefield jail in Ashford, Surrey, after being discharged from St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey.

A source said: "She was deeply upset but understood the charges meant it was impossible for her to be with her baby."

Social services can let women who give birth in custody keep their babies.

If they decide it is in the child's interest, the tot is made a ward of court and fostered or put up for adoption.

A Prison Service spokesman said last night: "We do not comment on individual prisoners."

Nursery worker Lyons, of Portsmouth, was charged in November with sexually assaulting a child and making and distributing indecent images of a child.

She is alleged to have been in a ring of paedophiles who swapped photos via Facebook.

She and Tracy Dawber, of Southport, Merseyside, who denies 11 charges including assaulting a baby, await trial.

Colin Blanchard, 38, nursery worker Vanessa George, 39, and Angela Allen, 39, are awaiting sentence.