Paedophile caught after asking a taxi driver to drive past a schoolA man who posed as a woman on social media to befriend children was caught after he asked a taxi driver to take him past a school so he could watch pupils.
David Groom had showed the cabbie a photograph of what he said was a 12-year-old girl on his mobile phone - and when the driver alerted police they found disturbing images on his computer.
Officers discovered the 28-year-old had been using a female's name on Facebook, Hotmail and WhatsApp to communicate with youngsters after searching his then home in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
David Groom of Corporation Road, who later admitted to a probation official that he had hoped to meet a child for sex, was jailed for five years and four months.
He pleaded guilty to two charges of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and ten of making indecent images of children.
Groom, who had got one of his victims to perform a sex act and send him pictures, will also be on the sex offenders' register for life, and is banned from having unsupervised contact with under-16s.
"(Groom) had a hermit-like existence" and saidthe creation of the social networking profile was "fantasy".
He has had very little contact with the normal avenues of the world and meeting people in the usual way.
"He has had difficulties dealing with his sexuality and his attention towards younger people. He has a limited social network."
– Amrit Jandoo, mitigating. "You, perhaps, should be grateful to the taxi driver who was public-spirited enough to alert the police.
He was concerned that you were quite prepared to reveal to him your interest in children . . . it is a matter of some concern.
– Judge Howard Crowson , sentencing.
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