Graphic photos sent to ‘teens’
A GRANDAD who engaged in sexual communication with who he believed to be three 13-year-old girls has been spared prison.
Keith White was operating under the username Silverfox100 when he sent graphic photos and asked for images in return on adult dating site Oasis.
Despite suspecting undercover police were operating one of the profiles and acknowledging he could be in “deep s***”, he carried on regardless during conversations in the spring of 2019.
Newcastle Crown Court heard White, now 60, told one “girl”, who had not asked him for any pictures: “If I send you a photo of my w **** I go to prison for a long time, that’s nasty and rude, now do you see, princess?”
The court heard the organisations Justice for Kids and Geordie Chasers were behind the fake profiles. They passed evidence of the graphic conversations to the police.
Prosecutor Anne Richardson told the court: “There are three separate sets of offences against three separate, fictional children.”
White, of Wreay Walk, Cramlington, pleaded guilty to three charges of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and three of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity.
Recorder Jonathan Sandiford QC sentenced him to two years imprisonment, suspended for two years, with programme and rehabilitation requirements.
He must sign the sex offenders’ register and abide by a sexual harm prevention order for five years.