PERVERT ANTHONY MOORE SENTENCED AT BRADFORD CROWN COURT
A PERVERT who messaged a decoy profile believed he was communicating with a 12-year-old girl when he provided “detailed and vivid” instructions on how she should masturbate.When he was arrested 58-year-old Anthony Moore was heard to comment: “I’m getting arrested.
I’ve been talking to kids again.
I’m sorry, I’m going to prison.” Moore has interest in underage girls.
But Moore, of Harewood Avenue, Steeton with Eastburn, was spared an immediate sentence by a judge who told him that his interest in underage girls needed to be addressed.
However he will have to register as a sex offender for the next five years.
Mr Recorder Anthony Hawks told Moore: “You are a pervert.
You have a perverted sexual interest in underage girls.” Verity Barnes, prosecuting, told Bradford Crown Court how Moore, calling himself “Ian”, made contact in March this year with the decoy account, which was actually an undercover operative pretending to be a 12-year-old female.
Moore asked if she was in school and was told the girl was in the library and was 12.
Moore admitted he was 58, and the conversations quickly became sexual.
He asked for a picture of her in a bra and in a towel and sent her a picture of his groin area when he was wearing shorts.
He asked for a picture of her lifting her bra up, told her he would like to kiss her breasts, asked if she ever touched herself and offered to show her how to do so.
Miss Barnes said: “He instructed her to pull her underwear down whilst she was in a toilet and gave detailed and vivid instructions as to how to engage in masturbation with penetration.” Moore also asked the decoy to write him a note, to put it next to her vagina, and to send him a photograph.
He was arrested on March 27.
The court heard that Moore, who gave “no comment” answers in a police interview, had no previous convictions.
He later pleaded guilty to attempting to incite a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child, and making an indecent image.
In mitigation, Nicholas Leadbeater said Moore had been in custody since March – the equivalent of a 14-month sentence.
Recorder Hawks said the appropriate sentence was 12 months imprisonment but given that Moore had already served more than that he opted to hand him a two-year community order plus a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
He said: “By no stretch of the imagination could you be called a man of good character.”
