Jailed, paedophile with ‘psychopathic traits’
A PAEDOPHILE posed online as a girl and persuaded a teenage boy to send sexually explicit images of himself, before threatening to post them online unless he sent more.
Christian Tymon, 33, who a psychologist said displays ‘psychopathic traits,’ has been jailed for six years and nine months after a judge said he appeared to gain ‘pleasure’ from ‘manipulating’ the boy and other victims.
Tymon, who called himself a ‘peeping Tom’ and ‘sex addict,’ befriended the 13-year-old boy on Facebook, Manchester Crown Court heard.
He persuaded the boy to send him a naked image of himself, and a sexually explicit video. When the boy challenged Tymon, he threatened to post the video on Facebook, unless he sent him another one. The teenager sent another video ‘in fear,’ prosecutor Rob Hall said. He ended up sending Tymon four such videos. Tymon later apologised to the boy and promised to delete the images.
The court heard the boy was ‘angry,’ ‘upset’ and ‘embarrassed,’ and is undergoing counselling.
Again on Facebook, Tymon made contact with a 17-year-old girl, pretending to be a girl of the same age. He obtained naked images of her, and later threatened to post them on Google. The girl’s grandparents intervened and contact ended.
Tymon also met a woman in her 20s on Skype, while pretending to be a female of the same age.
She sent him a naked image of herself and Tymon then threatened to share it with ‘everyone she knew’ unless she went onto Skype and posed naked. She refused and Tymon desisted. GMP received intelligence from the National Crime Agency that indecent images were found on Tymon’s Facebook account.
When police went to his home in Crumpsall in May 2018, Tymon put a mobile phone down the toilet and flushed. He then ‘cut his throat,’ in what prosecutors said ‘appeared to be a superficial attempt to kill himself.’ The phone was found to include email addresses linked to his Facebook accounts.
Defending, Stuart Neale said Tymon, who was previously jailed for voyeurism, ‘accepts full responsibility’ for his offending. But Judge Michael Leeming said: “You appear to have derived pleasure from manipulating and distressing your victims.”
Tymon, of Bennett Road, Crumpsall, pleaded guilty to attempted blackmail, engaging in sexual communication with a child, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, blackmail and sending communication with intent to cause distress. He must sign the sex offenders register for life.