Predatory paedophile Ewan Rawlings pestered the young girls to meet him for sex - unaware they were all police decoys.
A failed footballer who tried to meet five children he groomed online has been sent to prison for two years and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for a decade.
"The fact there were so many in a relatively short space of time is somewhat bewildering. Either you were extremely unlucky being identified by five officers, or alternatively, you were seeing to make contact with so many females online that you happened upon these five." The 30-year-old, from Bankfoot, spent weeks sending sexually explicit texts and repeatedly invited the "children" to meet up for sex.
Sheriff Wood said: "Considering the fact that in that short period you were able to find five different undercover officers gives some indication of the extent of the browsing you must have been doing.
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