February 2017

“Sexual predator” jailed for grooming teenage girls on social media

A “determined sexual predator” who groomed four teenage girls for sex has been jailed for six years and put on the sex offender’s register for life.

Steven Adams, 26, contacted a 14 year-old girl on Facebook and sent her messages encouraging her to engage in sexual activity, but she blocked him, Norwich Crown Court heard.

Adams also contacted a 15-year-old girl on Facebook and sent her text messages asking her for sex.

He also made a sexual advances to an 11-year-old girl and made sexually explicit comments to a 13-year-old girl, the court was told.

Jude Durr, prosecuting, said Adams had showed grooming behaviour: “He used social media to cloak himself in the disguise of a friend.”

Adams, of Pristow Green Lane, Tibenham, was convicted of inciting girls under 16 to engage in sexual activity between 2013 and 2014.

Jailing him, Judge Maureen Bacon said: “In my view you are a determined sexual predator.”

She said the “vulnerable” victims in his case had been deeply affected by his behaviour