Anthony Morgan, a repeat Wallsend Paedophile has been incarcerated after attempting to exploit youngsters for the fourth occasion.
Anthony Morgan faced legal proceedings in 2017 and 2019 after getting ensnared by individuals impersonating minors online. He has resumed his activities, conversing with someone he presumed to be a 13-year-old girl.
A law enforcement officer established a decoy profile on a social media chat platform, impersonating a minor. Anthony Morgan, who was impersonating an 18-year-old on the same site, ultimately engaged in communication with the profile in April of this year.
Anthony Morgan confessed he was actually 58 and despite the revelation of the girl’s age, he continued the chat and the conversation quickly became sexual. He asked about her body development, offered to help her learn to do sexual acts and asked what colour her underwear was.
Anthony Morgan was arrested and told the police he thought he had done well by giving her advice first, telling her that she was younger than 18 so should end the chat. But he said he had continued to speak to her because he was bored and lonely.
Newcastle Crown Court heard Anthony Morgan, 59, of Westmoreland Road, Wallsend, has ten previous convictions. In June 2017 he was jailed for 21 months for attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming. That involved another decoy profile and he travelled to meet what he thought was child at a train station, where he was confronted and detained by vigilantes.
In November 2019 he was convicted of two counts of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and one offence of attempting to engage a child in sexual activity. That related to two decoy profiles of 15-year-old girls.
Anthony Morgan was also in breach of sex offenders registration and a sexual harm prevention order. He got a three year community order for those offences..
In relation to the latest offence he pleaded guilty to attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child. He was jailed for eight months.
Matthew Purves, defending, said Anthony Morgan has learning difficulties.
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