Convicted sex offender who persuaded 14-year-old girl to send him topless pictures jailed
A convicted sex offender who persuaded a 14-year-old girl to send him scantily clad and topless pictures has been jailed for three years.
Daniel Burdett (30) also sent the girl indecent images of himself and showed her pornography on a computer.
He also made suggestions via a phone messaging app, to another girl, aged 12, that she should send him a picture of herself in bed.
Leicester Crown Court heard that Burdett, formerly of Wanlip Road, Syston, had been jailed for 13 months in 2009 for inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity and possessing indecent images of children.
Judge Nicholas Dean QC said: “You’re a relatively young man, but in 2009 you were dealt with for sexual offences, not the most serious of their type, but you were placed on a sexual offences prevention order, made in recognition of you representing a risk to young girls.
“It has proved to be the case.”
Burdett pleaded guilty to four counts of breaching his sexual offences prevention order.
These breaches included having unsupervised contact with a child under 16, in relation to looking after a one-year-old for a short period of time, although it is not alleged that any offence was committed in that instance.
He also breached the order by having contact via phone with the 12-year-old and for possessing a phone and a computer that were not registered with the police for monitoring purposes.
Burdett admitted inciting the 14-year-old victim to engage in sexual activity by getting her to send him pictures in her underwear and topless, and causing her to watch a sexual act by showing her pornography.
Judge Dean said the offence in relation to the 12-year-old girl involved “prolonged contact of a flirtatious nature.”
He said: “Had it been allowed to continue it could have been overtly sexual, but her mother seized her phone (and took it to the police).”
Judge Dean said Burdett’s conduct towards the 14-year-old involved “persuading her to send naked photographs of herself to you.”
He added: “You know the only disposal in this case involves immediate imprisonment.”
He said the defendant would have to enrol on a sex offenders’ register for life.
Burdett was also placed on an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
