SOUTHPORT ART TEACHER ROBERT COLLINS SENTENCED FOR CHILD SEXUAL COMMUNICATION
Robert Collins, 39, from Southport has been sentenced to prison for 2 years and six months for sending perverted messages to young girls over four years.
He was the head of art at Formby High School when he engaged in highly disturbing conduct, including sending explicit images of his naked genitals to minors and soliciting illicit images of their bodies.
Collins communicated online with a girl he believed was 12 years old—who was in reality an undercover police officer—and asked, 'What is the naughtiest thing you’ve ever done?' He further requested images of her body and transmitted pictures of his erect penis and nudity.
This evidence prompted police to investigate his address in Southport, where devices confiscated and examined revealed contact with three other teenage girls.
He expressed love for one girl and desire to start a relationship.
Police also found category C images of children on his devices.
Initially denying the charges, Collins later pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual communications with a child, four counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, and one count of possession of indecent images of children.
He was sentenced to two years and six months in prison.
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This is a probabilistic continent or country-group signal from public name datasets. It is not proof of nationality, ethnicity or personal background.
Likely region signal
UK
Country
from United States
- based on first and surname
41.7%
confidence
First-name region
UK
United States
42.4%
Surname region
UK
United States
41.0%
Court Outcome
Conviction and Sentencing Details
Sentenced
Detected legal outcome
Robert Collins, 39, from Southport has been sentenced to prison for 2 years and six months for sending perverted messages to young girls over four years. He was the head of art at Formby High School when he engaged in highly disturbing c...
Prison sentence
2 years and six months
Robert Collins, 39, from Southport has been sentenced to prison for 2 years and six months for sending perverted messages to young girls over four years
Prison sentence
two years and six months
He was sentenced to two years and six months in prison
