Transgender sex offender gets 11 years
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A TRANSGENDER serial sex offender has been jailed for 11 years.
Jacinta Brooks claimed to be a teenage boy in a bid to groom a girl, aged 12.
Brooks, 41, known as Duncan Smart but who now lives as a woman, sent her explicit messages.
The traumatised child quit school, Southampton crown court heard.
Her mum said not being able to protect her from “this pathetic excuse of a person” will “haunt me”.
Judge Nicholas Rowland called Brooks, who had served 13 years for attacking another young girl, a “danger to children”.
Brooks, of Winchester, admitted inciting a child to engage in sex and having indecent images.
He has been sent to allmale Winchester prison.