Anthony Lonsdale, 21, posed as a 14-year-old in uniform to infiltrate the same school as his victim in Nottinghamshire, UK.
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The pedophile indulges in creating fake profiles on Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp, using pseudonyms, including posing as a teenage girl named “Tia”.
Being ‘Tia’, he chatted with the girl and encouraged her to add her so-called 12-year-old brother ‘Sam’, a second fake profile he had created.
For several weeks, “Sam” sent the girl increasingly intimate messages before sending her sexually explicit photos.
It was when Lonsdale tried to force his way into a school in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, dressed as a pupil in an effort to meet the young victim that he was nabbed.
Police were alerted and identified two other Nottinghamshire girls whom Lonsdale had contacted using false names, including ‘Tony’, ‘Tia’, ‘Emily’ and ‘Sam’.
The man was sending messages from the different accounts, sending indecent images and asking for photos in return.
He met one of the young teenage girls at a McDonald’s restaurant under the guise of a caring friend and later attempted to contact her younger sister, the court heard.
The girl blocked communications with Lonsdale, but he managed to contact her from another fake account saying he had attempted suicide because of her actions.
Lonsdale was arrested in March 2022 and released on bail, but he continued to attack teenage girls and send nude photos of himself.
He also traveled to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire dressed as a teenager to meet a 14-year-old girl in a park.
He even convinced her and her mother to let him spend the night claiming he had no money to go home, the court heard.
Lonsdale, from Wembley, north-west London, facing eight counts of ‘grooming’ (a manipulation technique which involves gaining a child’s trust in order to engage in sexual activity) and possession of sexually explicit images of children.
He was jailed for seven years last Thursday, plus a three-year extension at Nottingham Crown Court.
An order has been issued to prevent Lonsdale from contacting the victims.
– According to information from Mirror
