Man pretending to be boy to pester young girls is jailed

A man who pretended to be a 14-year-old schoolboy and pestered young girls to send naked photos of themselves has been jailed.

Mark Taft used social media to contact girls aged between 12 and 17. He engaged in sexual conversations and requested naked images of them.

The 27-year-old, formerly of Willow Avenue in Kirby in Ashfield, pleaded guilty to 13 child sexual offences including causing and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, causing or inciting child exploitation and making indecent images of children.

He was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court to three years three months in prison, he was also given a sexual harm prevention order and will sign the sex offenders register for life.

Taft who set up a fake profile in the name of Luke Carlise was arrested in September last year after the father of one of the victims contact police having found sexual conversations between a male and his 12-year-old daughter on the family tablet.