Derbyshire paedophile who used TikTok to prey on young girls arrested after victim’s mum alerted police.

Derbyshire Times

This is the moment a paedophile who used TikTok to prey on young girls was arrested after the victim’s mum alerted police. Stephen Blackwell, 46, posed as a 17-year-old boy on the social networking site to target girls as young as 10.

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00:00The sexual predator who used TikTok to send explicit content to girls as young as 10 has

00:06been jailed for more than 11 years.

00:09Stephen Blackwell began messaging a 10-year-old girl using the app and bombarded her with

00:13sexually graphic photos and videos and asking for the same in return.

00:18He was caught when the girl's mum found the messages on her phone and contacted police.

00:22Blackwell was arrested and later bailed while investigations continued.

00:26While on bail he also began messaging accounts he believed belonged to 14-year-old girls.

00:31Again he sent numerous videos showing him performing sex acts on himself and asked the

00:34girls to do the same.

00:36However, these accounts were not real.

00:38They were in fact decoys run by an online child protection activist group.

00:43The phone number was traced to Blackwell and he was arrested and subsequently charged with

00:46offences including engaging in sexual communication with a child, causing a child under 13 to

00:52engage in sexual activity and causing a child under 13 to look at images of sexual activity.

00:57So we've had important information received, okay, that there's an online account linked

01:01to yourself that's been chatting with 14-year-old girls, okay.

01:05So at this moment in time it is 10 to 7, so I'm arresting you on suspicion of attempting

01:12to engage in sexual communications with a child, okay.

01:15The 46-year-old of Matlock denied the offences but was found guilty by a jury at Derby Crown

01:20Court and has now been jailed for 11 years.

01:22He was also given a sexual harm prevention order and placed on the Sex Offenders Register

01:26for life.

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