March 2020

Internet groomer sent private message to 11-year-old girl on TikTok

A pervert who was once snared by a paedophile hunter sent a private message to an 11-year-old girl on the social media platform TikTok.

Daniel Sloan, from South Bank, was caught with the message and a laptop he hid from police after serving part of an extended sentence for internet grooming.

The 33-year-old was locked up at Newcastle Crown Court two years ago after trying to meet an eight-year-old girl and sending her sexual messages and pictures.

He believed he was chatting to a primary school girl called Layla, who was in fact a decoy profile set up by a group called Keeping Kids Safe.

Knowing the fictitious girl’s age, he sent her pictures of his genitals, talked of sex acts and made indecent suggestions on social media, while telling her not to tell her mum.

He arranged to meet her and, when faced with a member of the Keeping Kids Safe group, lashed out and kicked the man’s leg.

Sloan was sentenced in April 2018 after he admitted attempting to incite a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, attempting to meet a child after sexual grooming and common assault.

He was jailed for three years with a four-year extended licence period for the public’s protection.

He is on the sex offenders’ register for life and was given a indefinite sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).

Sloan, of Middlesbrough Road, South Bank, was back in trouble at Teesside Crown Court this week after he admitted two breaches of the order.

Prosecutor Rachel Masters told how his latest crimes came to light with a visit from police on February 11 this year.

He declared an Xbox and a phone to the officer from the sex offender management unit.

Sloan went on to mention the TikTok video-sharing service, on which he had followers and friends including a girl aged 10 to 11.

It emerged he had sent her a private message in January saying: “Hi.”

He later claimed he thought she was 18, despite the profile picture of a 10 to 11-year-old, and denied sending the message.

When they searched his room, police also found a laptop which he had not disclosed to them as he was meant to do under the SHPO.

He said he used it for playing games and said he had not told them about it as its screen was broken, but the damage was slight.

He had a previous conviction for indecent assault on an adult in 2004, for which he was given a hospital order.

April 2018

This pervert tried to meet a girl aged EIGHT after online grooming

A pervert tried to meet an eight-year-old girl after sending sexual messages and photographs – then kicked a paedophile hunter when confronted.

Daniel Sloan believed he had been chatting to a primary school girl called Layla online when he talked about sex acts while telling her not to tell her mum.

The 31-year-old, already a convicted sex offender, sent her pictures of his genitals and arranged to meet the little girl.

But, fortunately, he had been speaking to a decoy profile set up by a group called Keeping Kids Safe and there was no real victim.

When Sloan turned up to meet what he hoped was Layla, he became agitated and lashed out with his foot, causing reddening to the man from the group’s leg.

Now he has been jailed for three years at Newcastle Crown Court after he admitted attempting to incite a child under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity, attempting to meet a child after sexual grooming and common assault.

Sloan got in contact with the girl’s profile “almost immediately” after it was set up on a social media site named Nearby in January.

Despite being aware of “Layla’s” tender age, he continued the conversation on Whatsapp, sent her a pictures of his genitals, asked if he they could perform sex acts on each other and encouraged her to do things to herself.

Sloan, of Olive Street, South Shields, has a previous conviction for indecent assault in 2004, on an adult victim, which resulted in him receiving a hospital order and he has offences of violence on his record.

Judge Sarah Mallett sentenced him to three years behind bars with a four-year extended licence period “for the protection of the public”.

He must also sign the sex offenders register and abide by the terms of a sexual harm prevention order for life.

Judge Mallett told him: “The organisation set up a profile on January 7 2018 on behalf of someone purporting to be Layla, aged eight.

“As soon as that profile was live, there was almost immediate contact from you and the chat then quickly became sexual.

“You also asked if her parents knew she was online and when she said no you suggested you both went on to communicate by Whatsapp.

“You told her not to tell her mother.

“You made indecent suggestions to her and also then attended the meeting place.

“You became agitated on meeting the person who was behind that profile and you kicked his leg, causing redness”.

Judge Mallett said the speed that Sloan got in touch with the profile and then turned the conversation sexual was “troubling”.

The judge added: “There is a significant risk you will commit further specified offences and by doing so you will cause serious physical or psychological harm to one or more people.”