Man spared jail after sex chats to police officer posing as 12-year-old
An Oswestry man who sent images of his genitals and conducted a series of sex chats to a police officer posing as a 12-year-old girl, has been spared jail.
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Robert Turner of Oswalds Close in Oswestry, had believed that he was chatting to a young girl on the social media app Kik Messaging, Miss Alexa Carrier Prosecuting told Shrewsbury Crown Court on Thursday (May 1).
In reality, it was an undercover police officer, she told the court, but said 35-year-old Turner had no knowledge of that.
She said that between July 25 and August 23 last year Turner and the decoy, known as 'Tommy', spoke on numerous occasions.
In one conversation Turner said that "I don't mind that you are 12" and told the decoy he want to lie naked with her.