July 2014
Fake ‘teen’ pervert jailed for six years
A pervert who befriended young schoolgirls over the internet by pretending to be a teen himself has been jailed for six years.
Liam Dorr, 29, groomed girls and entered into intimate online relationships with them – flattering and complementing them until they agreed to send their photographs to him, some in sexual poses.
Dorr used a false identity and persuaded a schoolgirl to speak to him over a webcam – but said his camera was not working so she could not see him.
He secretly recorded her indulging in a sex act and later posted a video and photograph of her on a salacious web site.
Mold Crown Court heard how two years later, the girl was approached by a fellow school pupil who said he had seen the photograph on the web.
The victim, now 18, had the courage to report the matter to the police to prevent it happening to other girls.
Police tracked him down through an old mobile phone number.
When they examined his computer at his home at Plas Edwards, Tywyn, near Aberystwyth, they found he had been chatting and filming other girls as well for seven years.
Officers discovered images of up to 100 girls. More than 300 movies and six indecent photographs of girls were found.
Analysis of web chats showed he had been chatting to girls for many hours.
Dorr admitted 12 charges of making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children, and two of inciting children to engage in sexual activity over the internet.
He was placed on the sex offenders register for life and made the subject of an indefinite sexual offences prevention order.
Jonathan Austin, prosecuting, said the girl told police that in 2009, when she was 15, she began communicating with a 15 year-old boy called Tom via the Bebo website.
That turned out to be a fictitious online persona created by Dorr, then aged 25.
They exchanged messages via MSM and would chat most evenings, for hours at a time.
She first agreed to send a photograph of herself fully clothed, then in her underwear.
Dorr sent her a photo of an unknown bare chested young man.
In total, she sent him 13 photographs. He then persuaded her to go on webcam and persuaded her to indulge in a sex act on line.
Having got what he wanted, he stopped communicating with her.
Mr Austin said: “She had no idea she had been filmed. She thought it was something private between her and ‘Tom’ and felt thoroughly deceived and exploited.”
Oliver King, defending, said Dorr accepted full responsibility for the dreadful offences, committed when he spent hours alone in his bedroom when he felt his mother and sister were arguing.
He was described as something of a social recluse who did not mix well.
Jailing him, Judge Philip Hughes said Dorr had indulged in the offences for for his own lustful purposes.
It had been “a gross abuse of young children by a devious, deceitful criminal”.
