In 2019, the Offender Database confirmed that Dillon King, a Hartlepool Paedophile Child Sex Offender, who convinced an underage girl to transmit nude photographs of herself online, had narrowly evaded incarceration.
Dillon King, then aged 23 and from Hartlepool, engaged in conversation with an underage girl on the photo-sharing social media site Snapchat, as shown in Teesside Crown Court.
Employing multiple aliases, he claimed to be an 18-year-old college student and persuaded her to send numerous photographs of herself in her pants and various states of undress.
In an online conversation, they planned to meet in Hartlepool when Dillon King proposed potential sexual action, which she declined.
Law enforcement was directed to him in October 2017 when he posted an inappropriate image of another child on the platform Tumblr.
Seventy images of the girl he had been communicating with on Snapchat were found on his mobile phone, comprising fifteen obscene photographs and three brief films.
Barrister Harry Hadfield, for the prosecution, stated that King and the victim initiated a conversation after she accepted his Snapchat friend request.
In a selfie on her phone, she captioned it, ‘Do you not mind that I’m 14?’
Mr Hadfield stated, “There were additional images of this female complainant on the phone.”
The authorities identified the victim and her mother by examining the school uniform, revealing that she was a 14-year-old student.
Mr Hadfield stated, “If she failed to send him photographs, he would cease communication with her.”
He requested that she disrobe, and she expressed feeling coerced into sending him explicit photographs of herself.
Dillon King, residing on Catcote Road in Hartlepool, also transmitted lewd images of himself to the girl.
He admitted guilt to charges of facilitating child sexual exploitation, holding 18 indecent images of a minor, and disseminating an indecent image of a minor, all occurring between June and October 2017.
Dillon King received a 20-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and was mandated to participate in a sexual offender treatment program.
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