Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info. But Poppy, the teen the year-old thought he was engaging in disgusting and illegal chats with, was really a decoy. And when the police went to arrest the defendant and his then West Bridgford flat, they found of the most serious category A child sex pictures and videos.
Handing him an month jail term, suspended for two years, at Nottingham Crown Court, Judge Stuart Rafferty said: "You should be ashamed of yourself. A man of your age propositioning girls, who you believed were real girls, aged 13, is simply outrageous. You amassed over 1, indecent pictures of children and if you bothered to look at the faces on those photos you would see fear, sadness and misery.
They have been sentenced to a living death. Gareth Gimson, prosecuting, said Corbett used two social media applications to chat online to Poppy, who the defendant believed was a year-old girl. Mr Gimson said a phone was examined and found to contain of the most serious category A child abuse images, category B and category C.
Corbett, now of Mansfield Road, Blidworth, Mansfield, pleaded guilty to attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and three counts of making indecent images of children. He has no previous convictions. As part of the suspended sentence order, the judge ordered the defendant to attend 35 rehabilitation sessions with the probation service, placed him on the sex offender register for five years and handed him a five-year sexual harm prevention order.
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