A model previously caught with child abuse images has been hauled back before the courts after failing to register her Only Fans account with police.
Jodiee Hart was given an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) in November 2017 after being found to have indecent images of children on her phone. The 32-year-old has now found herself back before the courts over failing to register social media accounts, downloading the app Snapchat, and using an online alias, Jennifer XXX online, StokeOnTrentLive reports.
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard that police went to Hart's address on January 15 and looked at her phone. Prosecuting, Richard McConaghy, said: "There had been a visit to the defendant a month earlier, on December 7, 2021, and Snapchat was present on her phone. There had been a discussion that that was a breach of the SHPO and the Snapchat was deleted. But the Snapchat was put back on the phone by January."
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Hart told police in an interview that she had reinstalled Snapchat to talk to someone as she was 'lonely' and she had been allowed to by a previous force in Runcorn. On further examination of the phone police found the alias Jenifer XXX. "The name had not been registered with the police," Mr McConaghy added.
Hart pleaded guilty to failing to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders' register and breaching a SHPO. She believed she did not have to register the OnlyFans account as it had not changed from her time in Runcorn and that she also used Runcorn while with this previous force and did not hide the app from them.
Jason Holt, mitigating, said: "For a number of years she has been using Snapchat in Runcorn. She was under no illusion Staffordshire Police said she should not use it but she reinstalled it. That was more out of annoyance rather than to do something underhand. It was not for an unlawful purpose that she reinstalled it. It was because she was annoyed."
Judge Sally Hancox gave Hart a two-year community order. She must complete a rehabilitation activity requirement for 30 days.
Judge Hancox said: "You failed to comply with notification requirements. A different name was used which was not registered.
"The use of Snapchat is a breach of your SHPO because it is an automatic deleting app. The app was reinstated."
The judge made a deprivation order for Hart's mobile phone.
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