Man jailed after grooming girls
Paul Etheridge
A man who pleaded guilty to grooming young girls from across the UK on the internet and having underage sex has been jailed for nearly six years
offered mobile phone top-up vouchers to girls in return for them sending indecent images of themselves in messages
he escalated from downloading internet images, to grooming girls to make their own photos and actually meeting a girl to carry out sexual acts
200 indecent images of girls, aged 13 to 15, on his mobile phone and thousands more on his computer
she had been propositioned online by a man who wanted her to take indecent photographs of herself using her mobile phone camera then send them to him
he had been in contact with hundreds of girls under 16 in areas across the country.
Thousands of indecent images, many from web cameras, were also found on his computer.
Specialist anti-paedophile officers
tracked down many of Etheridge's victims through his computer and phone records
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