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A teenager who claimed to be a children’s football coach has been unmasked as a pervert who enticed a nine-year-old child into posing for sex pictures.
Lewis Pressley threatened his victim that if she didn’t supply him with more disgusting images she would be humiliated.
Pressley, 18, of Collins Road, Greenhill, told the girl he would call the police or send the pictures to her friends.
Now the teenager – who is studying for a degree in sports science – has been sent to a Young Offenders’ Institute for 22 months after admitting eight sex offences involving three victims.
Judge Adele Williams told him: “Your youngest victim was just nine years old and you coerced her through social media into sending you indecent images.”
Pressley also asked to meet the girl and told her that if they did they would have sex. He even drew up a map from his home to the town where she lived.
“Your youngest victim was just nine years old and you coerced her through social media into sending you indecent images...” - Judge Adele Williams
The girl – who at one time pleaded with the pervert to stop hounding her as she was being physically sick – later told her mother.
The police were alerted and managed to recover chatlogs between the child and Pressley over a two-week period.
Officers raided his home in Herne Bay and found him in bed holding his Blackberry. He was arrested – but refused to comment.
Prosecutor Simon Taylor added: “Police discovered on his phone 927 BBM chats and 11,257 pages of instant messages from Twitter – many of them demanding that people send him pictures.
“Among the messages were also threats that he would overload and crash the other persons’ Blackberries unless they performed and took pictures of themselves.”
Canterbury Crown Court heard how manipulative Pressley persuaded two victims to send video and still images of themselves in sex poses.
Pressley told one of his victims that he was a football coach for eight-year-olds, the court heard.
The judge added: “You also asked a 14-year-old to send indecent images and then threatened if she stopped, you would send the pictures to her friends. You tried to persuade another teenager but she refused and you were arrested.”
Ian Foinette, defending, said at the time of the offences Pressley was feeling isolated and has now started his degree and now has a girlfriend.
The barrister said that Pressley did not know the age of his first victim and thought she was older that nine.
Pressley was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years and was made subject to a Sex Offences Prevention Order for the same period.
He was also banned from working with children until 2024 and the judge ordered that his computer be forfeited.
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