Man wanted to be ‘friends with extras’

A MAN spent months engaged in sordid online chats with someone he believed to be a 13-yearold girl, a court has heard.

Peter Kundrak asked someone he knew as “Amber” intimate questions, asked her to send him her underwear, and suggested being her “friend with extras”.

In fact, the 27-year-old was talking to members of a paedophile hunter group called Confronted and Caught.

A judge branded him a “sick, inadequate fantasist”.

Swansea Crown Court heard that in April last year two members of the hunter group created a profile of a 13-year-old girl from Manchester called Amber on social media platforms.

In July, Kundrak initiated contact with Amber, and the pair then began chatting on the messaging app WhatsApp.

John Hipkin, prosecuting, said that over the following months there was “frequent and regular” contact between the pair.

The court heard the conversation soon became sexual with Kundrak asking Amber to send him her knickers. Kundrak sent the girl pictures of his penis.

Mr Hipkin said Kundrak suggested the pair could be “friends with extras”, and mentioned travelling to Manchester and meeting Amber at the city’s Piccadilly station.

In October, Kundrak abruptly terminated the contact between the pair, and it was subsequent to this that Confronted and Caught went to the police to report his online behaviour.

Kundrak, of New Street, Lampeter, had previously pleaded guilty to attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity when he appeared in the dock for sentencing.

The court heard that he had no previous convictions.

Dyfed Thomas, for Kundrak, said the defendant would welcome the chance to work with probation to tackle the issues he had, and he described his client’s behaviour as “seemingly inexplicable”.

He said Kundrak had been in custody since November 5, and had therefore effectively served the equivalent of a six-month sentence.

Judge Paul Thomas QC told Kundrak his conversations with what he believed to be a 13-yearold girl had been “simply disgusting” and showed “paedophile tendencies”.

He said he accepted the defendant had not intended to go through with a meeting with Amber, and it seemed to him Kundrak got his sexual thrills from the explicit conversations.

The judge said: “You seem to me to be a sick, inadequate fantasist.”

Judge Thomas said that rather than impose what would necessarily be a relatively short sentence it would be better for the defendant – and more importantly better for society – that he receive specialist support and treatment to tackle his problems.

Kundrak was given a two-year community order with a rehabilitation course, was made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order, and was placed on the sex offenders’ register.