An online pervert, who breached a strict court order when he made sexual suggestions to underage teen girls during Internet chats, has dodged prison with a suspended sentence.
Mark Slater, 24, of Leatherhead Road, Chessington asked one fifteen year-old to expose herself via a web cam and whether she would perform a sex act on him before similarly moving onto a fourteen year-old.
He was made subject to a five-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) on July 1, last year after being convicted on eight counts of possessing indecent photographs of children.
Slater pleaded guilty at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court (pictured) to breaching the order, which prohibited him from engaging in online communication with girls aged under eighteen.
The court heard his supervising police officer made a spot-check at the family home on February 24 and Slater’s laptop was seized after he admitted receiving and deleting images sent by a young girl.
A forensic examination of the computer revealed Slater had looked up Facebook profiles of young girls and asked one: “show me your boobs” and “tell some of your nice-looking friends to add me.”
While posing as a young boy Slater also asked the fifteen year-old: “Would you suck me?” to which she replied: “Yes.”
He attempted a similar tactic with a fourteen year-old girl, but this time admitted how old he was and was told: “Why don’t you find someone your own age?”
Further teen chat sites were found on the laptop, plus a picture of a young girl naked from the waist up.
When quizzed at Kingston police station on April 6 Slater admitted trawling the internet in the search of topless shots of young girls for his own sexual gratification.
There were also cartoon images of children engaged in “sexual acts” on the laptop.
Judge Peter Birts QC sentenced Slater to fifty-one weeks imprisonment, suspended for two years, with a two-year supervision requirement that he attends the community sex offender group treatment programme.
“The order is to protect young girls from predatory people like you,” the judge told the defendant. “It is a destructive, soulless, lonely activity.
“You are a perfectly decent person in every other way and you have not tried to put these fantasies into action.
“This addiction to pornography will destroy you if you do not get out of it. You have to kick the habit or you are on a downward slope.”
Slater, who works at homewares store Wilkinson’s, was also ordered to pay £340 costs.
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