Gareth Freeman was jailed for four years in Belfast Crown Court a pedophile who travelled from England to have sex with a 13-year-old Belfast schoolgirl was imprisoned for four years on Friday.Gareth Freeman, 31, has said that it will be released only when the authorities consider that it is safe to do so.
Judge Tom Burgess said Freeman presents a risk serious public, "depth which is not fully understood at the present time".
He added: "it was a classic case of grooming.
Freeman, Regent Street in Mirfield West Yorkshire pleaded guilty to the meeting of a child following sexual grooming, six counts of sexual activity with a child six others possess indecent images of a child and two an indecent image of a child.
Judge Burgess said Belfast Crown Court: "from the beginning, he knew what he was doing was wrong."
Charges, which are all dated from 30 October to 1 November last year was raised after Freeman with the student on a social networking site prior to flight in Belfast, where he had sex with the girl in a hotel.
Defence QC Arthur Harvey said that when the student has been impeccable, when Freeman on the internet looking for a girl her age, "he found damaged someone who was looking for someone like him".
However, that is not in a sense "reduce its responsibility" and Freeman contribution to the damage caused to the girl, continued "could be just as serious.
Earlier, continue the lawyer ian Tannihill told the Court in the days of the start chat with her, talk about what has become very "sexualised" and that he spoke his sending explicit photographs of herself, after which he sent pictures of himself he.
In October 2009, just before his visit to Belfast, Freeman had bombed the girl with close to 4,000 messages text, including messages of almost one hundred media.
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