A Wrexham man who created false Facebook profiles of young girls and engaged in highly sexualised conversations with older men has been jailed.
Call centre manager Colin Yates, 31, pretended to be under-aged girls who had been sexually abused and sent indecent photographs of intimate parts of the female body to the men.
Yates denied that he was sexually interested in children and was previously cleared by a jury at Mold Crown Court of sexually assaulting a little girl.
But he admitted a charge of being a public nuisance - based on the fact that he posed as underage girls on the internet - and possessing indecent images of children and extreme images involving scenes of sex acts between people and animals.
Today, he was jailed for 12 months, placed on the sex offender register for 10 years, and given a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.
Judge David Hale told Yates, of The Green, Little Acton, that it was an aggravating feature of the public nuisance charge that one of the people he had contact with in his fake Facebook account was a girl of 15.
Posing as a girl, Yates arranged to meet her on the basis of “my father will pick you up”.
That, the judge said, fortunately never happened, but it showed that the defendant was prepared to go further.
Judge Hale said that, until police knocked on his door, Yates had a good job, had acquired an adoring family and had a supportive family of his own.
Police visited him after an email of his was discovered on the computer of a paedophile in Sussex, and officers feared that there was a child at the address who had been abused.
“It was you who was behaving as that child,” the judge said.
Yates had created and used the persona of two or three abused girls.
That had gone on for the best part of a year, during which he had spent hours creating the false accounts of three girls who he said were being “abused left, right and centre” by their father.
Night after night, he uploaded and cropped photographs and put them on the fake Facebook accounts for the world at large to see, pretending to be the abused sisters.
They were put on social media groups which attracted likeminded people.
“It is bizarre behaviour by you,” Judge Hale said.
“It is very worrying conduct indeed.
“It is stupid to say you were just interested and doing research.
“You were getting some perverted kick out of it.”
He had also collected indecent and extreme photographs.
The defendant earlier claimed he first set up a false profile of a young girl because a former girlfriend, who was a hairdresser, owed him money.
She had blocked him on Facebook and he created the false profile of a young girl interested in hair extensions so that his ex would accept her as a friend and he could then see her Facebook profile.
But he said that, when he was bored, he continued with the false profile and exchanged “smutty” messages with older men who befriended the girl he had created.
Defending barrister Peter Moss said the discovery of the offences had left Yates’ personal life in tatters and he was suspended from his job.
“He now realises how wrong and perverted the game he was playing was,” said Mr Moss.
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