Police make sickening discovery after seizing phone of pervert caught out by 'Justice for the Innocent' group
22.09.2022 - 09:01
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A man who messaged a child decoy online was found to have been having vile conversations with three actual kids. Joseph Cooper, 22, added the ‘girl’ on Facebook before sparking a sexual chat with her.
He later asked her to send him intimate images of herself despite her telling him she was 12-years-old. The ‘girl’ was actually an adult, Manchester Crown Court heard.
The group behind the sting - Justice for the Innocent - later went to his home in Salford and alerted police. Officers searched Cooper's house and recovered his mobile phone.
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Analysis revealed he had been talking to three teenage girls. He encouraged one to send him videos of herself performing a sex act. Cooper admitted offences of attempting sexual communication with a child; sexual communication with a child; inciting a child to engage in sexual activity; causing a child to engage in sexual activity and making indecent images of children.
Prosecuting, Robert Smith said that in August 2019 Cooper sent the decoy a friend request on Facebook, before asking her how old she was, telling her he was 20. He then asked her to send him a picture of her and told her she was ‘beautiful’.
The messages become increasingly more sexualised, with Cooper asking if she had had sex. When she said it was something that adults did, he said: “So?”.
“He said he would teach her about sexual education and sent messages asking if she had ‘boobs’ and asked for pictures of her ‘girl bits’,” Mr Smith said.
The conversations became more explicit and moved onto WhatsApp. He sent the ‘girl’ a picture of his genitals. In October that year the group attended