James Barber was arrested by police officers at the nursery where he worked as a cook
A depraved paedophile sent shocking messages to what he believed to be 11, 12 and 13-year old girls. However, they were actually adult decoys from a local vigilante group, who hunt down perverts, and the North West Organised Crime Squad, reports Manchester Evening News.
Barber also admitted to attempting to engage in sexualised conversations with children and attempting to cause a child to watch sexual activity, and was handed a suspended sentence by the judge. Prosecutor Tom Challinor said that in May 2021, the North West Regional Organised Crime Squad deployed one of its trained officers to pose as a 12-year-old girl and chat to Barber.
Top news stories today Barber was then released on bail, but continued offending and next caught the attention of the group, Children’s Innocence Matterz. Using another chat website, he began speaking to a ‘child’, who was actually a member of the group. Then on November 18, a different decoy from the same group began chatting to Barber, posing as an 11-year-old girl. “He told her ‘I like young girls’, said she was very pretty and gorgeous and asked if she had any sexy photos,” the prosecutor continued.
Barber had already spent five months in custody and the judge, Recorder Andrew Long, and Barber’s barrister Graham Rishton spoke briefly about this. “In cases of such seriousness, custody can only be justified but I can suspend the sentence and the defendant can carry out a more constructive sentence,” the judge said, and his barrister agreed.
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