The decoy asked ‘what age do you want’, to which he replied: “12/13 is nice.” On November 26 last year, the girl, purporting to be a 14-year-old, was speaking with Barber, who told her: “I just wanted a young girl.”. He began speaking to a ‘child’, who was actually a member of the group, on another chat website. His phone was interrogated, with officers finding a number of indecent images, including 18 category A pictures, described as the worst type.īarber was released on police bail, but it wasn’t long before caught the attention of the group, Children’s Innocence Matterz. On July 12 he was arrested at his former place of work, a nursery in Altrincham, where he worked as a cook. “He said he wanted to touch her bottom and cuddle her and look at one another naked.”īarber also said he wanted to take her somewhere private and later sent images of himself. “He proceeded to attempt to groom her and engaged in sexual conversations, telling her he liked ‘young, sexy girls’,” Mr Challinor said. Prosecutor Tom Challinor said that in May 2021, officers from the North West Regional Organised Crime Squad deployed one of its specially trained officers to pose as a 12-year-old girl online.īetween May 18 and July 1, Barber and the girl spoke on ‘Fast Chat’, with her initially telling him she was 12. Yesterday (May 16) at Manchester Crown Court, he was handed a suspended sentence. He admitted making indecent images of children after a number of vile pictures were found on his phone, and admitted attempting to engage in sexualised conversations with children and attempting to cause a child to watch sexual activity. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community The 56-year-old, of no fixed abode, also sent indecent images of himself to the ‘children’. He told them he was looking for ‘young, sexy girls’, said he ‘liked innocence’ and added that ‘young girls just make me excited’.īarber was arrested at a nursery in Altrincham where he worked as a cook. In the chats, across different social media platforms, James Barber, 56, befriended, groomed and spoke to the ‘girls’ for a number of days. They were actually adult decoys, acting on behalf of a ‘paedo-hunter’ group and the North West Organised Crime Squad. A paedophile sent disgusting messages to what he thought were, 11, 12 and 13-year-old ‘girls’.
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