Prison for internet "groomer"
AN EAST Dean businessman who targeted a schoolgirl for sexual activity after grooming her on an internet chat site has been jailed for three years.
"You and others like you must understand that if you use the internet to groom young children for sexual purposes you can expect little mercy from the courts," said the judge.
Forty-three-year-old Parfitt met up with the 11-year-old girl in the Walsall, West Midlands, area.
He maintained he had never asked the girl for sex but Stephen Thomas, prosecuting, said he arranged a meeting with the girl when he was in the Walsall area on business.
He didn't ask for sex but I bet he would have taken it. Good to see another one behind bars but I still wonder about the ones who do not get caught......