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After the original contact in a chatroom, through a clever and persistent process of persuasion via email and then mobile phone, the man convinced the girl that he was in love with her. At first the girl resisted his requests for a meeting but finally she gave in to his pressure and agreed to meet him in a public place. The man arrived by car, introduced himself to his victim and drove her to his flat many miles away where he began a series of indecent assaults.
After four meetings in quick succession, the increasingly confused girl broke down and told everything to her mother. Her parents were shocked and immediately told the police. Some days passed before the man was arrested, and, pending further investigation and the result of the laboratory analysis of his computer, he was released on bail.
Within days he had used the computer at his place of work to contact another underage girl and, using similar tactics, drove hundreds of miles across the country to commit a similar assault. The man’s work colleagues discovered some disturbing emails and tipped off the police who mounted a surveillance operation and rearrested him, just as the next young victim was getting into his car.
The police arrested the man and he was charged with sexual assault and possession of child pornography – he was later found guilty and sent to prison.