A paedophile sent an image of his penis to a girl he believed was 13-years-old.
Ben Mawby, 26, was convicted of two sexual offences at Wirral Magistrates' Court on November 29, after being caught out by an undercover officer. He was sentenced on Wednesday for one count of an adult attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child, and the second charge of trying to get a child aged between 13-15 years old to watch or look at sexual activity.
Martyn Walsh, prosecuting, told the court how an undercover police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl named "Elsie", created a social media account on messaging platforms Kik and Snapchat. On September 15, Mawby contacted the profile of “Elsie” and the pair shared long exchanges of messages, beginning with basic questions such as “where are you from?”.
