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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
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Online child groomer jailed after covert police sting

Tanilba Bay man Jason Delaney Bishop being arrested in February, 2023. Picture supplied by NSW Police

A TANILBA Bay man who tried to procure a nine-year-old girl online for sexual activity - but was actually chatting with an undercover police officer - has been jailed for a maximum of four years and nine months.

Newcastle District Court heard on Monday afternoon Jason Delaney Bishop, 48, began talking in a chat room with the woman he believed was the mother of a young girl only three months after he had finished serving a full four-year prison term for child grooming.

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