John Joseph Mongan, An East London Paedophile man sent pictures of his penis to social media profiles he believed were girls aged 12-14, offering them money for “plenty of sex and love.” John Joseph Mongan, 54, of Ruby Close in Hackney, used a fake Facebook profile under a different name to try to groom who he believed were six different underage girls between May 2020 and August 2020.
John Joseph Mongan added each of the dummy profiles as friends and messaged them privately, believing they were children, the Met Police have revealed. Within the first few messages John Joseph Mongan’s communications became increasingly sexual, despite the profiles making their young ages clear from the start and reminding him throughout.
Police described how John Joseph Mongan’s messages were “very demanding” and “graphic.” He sent numerous photographs of what he claimed was his penis. John Joseph Mongan also made frequent attempts to engage in sexualised phone and video calls with the profiles he thought were young girls.
The 54-year-old, John Joseph Mongan, appeared to offer money in return for “sex and love” to the profiles. He sent photographs of large piles of cash, and asked how they would like to spend it. In one message he sent, he asked: “all I want in return is plenty of sex and love from you could you give me all of that.”
Police eventually managed to lure John Joseph Mongan to Homerton train station in Hackney on August 8, 2020, under the false pretence that he was meeting a 14-year-old girl he had met on Facebook for sex. Mongan cottoned on when he arrived at the station, left, and was arrested by police when he was spotted later that evening in the same area.
John Joseph Mongan was charged in January 2022 and was remanded in custody. He was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday, September 28 at Snaresbrook Crown Court, after he was previously found guilty by a jury in August 2022. He has also been added to the sex offenders register for life.
He was convicted of six counts of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child, two counts of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.
Police described how, throughout the investigation, it was clear that John Joseph Mongan was aware his actions were illegal and wrong and he made several attempts to cover his tracks and evade being caught. He deleted evidence of his conversations and officers spent hours investigating his devices and building up evidence to attribute the fake Facebook profile to John Joseph Mongan.
PC Lindsey England, who is a member of the Central East Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Team, led the investigation. She said: “As part of the investigation I reviewed hundreds of pages of communication. Almost every single page contains extremely sexualised chat from Mongan, with him sometimes giving detailed instructions and descriptions of sexual acts.
“The profiles gave him no encouragement, and instead attempted to remind him of how disinterested and inexperienced they were in sex. John Joseph Mongan’s methods of manipulation and grotesque use of language are some of the worst I have seen. John Joseph Mongan used threats of foster homes and promises of love, care and money in an attempt to feed his own sexual fantasies and interests.
“His desire to groom and abuse who he believed to be six different children came above anything else, and he did so without any care of the impact this may have had. His only interests were making every attempt possible to deny and hide his criminal activities. He would have very likely continued this offending if he wasn’t arrested.”
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