July 2015 Sex fiend posed as young boy to incite unwitting young girls to send him indecent images An East Sussex sex fiend who posed as a young boy to trick unwitting young girls into sending indecent images to him has been jailed. Convicted sex offender Alan Bull, of Upper Church Road, St Leonards, used Facebook and live webcam software to incite the young girls into sexual activity over the internet. The 31-year-old appeared at Hove Crown Court on Friday (26 June) and was sentenced to a total of five years and four months in prison. He admitted at a previous hearing two counts of possession of indecent images of the girls, one count of making indecent images of one of them, breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) imposed after a previous such offence, and causing or inciting one teenage girl to engage in sexual activity. He will also be placed on the sex offenders register for life. The mother of an 11-year-old girl who fell victim to Bull’s despicable crimes said: “I feel very angry towards Alan Bull. I am angry that he just randomly chose my young daughter to do this to and took away her dignity. “I think she will get over this but it will take a very long time. I don’t think that it will ever leave her completely.”   Detective Constable Chris Milner said; “Our investigation began in December last year from an initial report from a mother of one of the victims that her daughter had been asked on Facebook to send indecent images by a young man, who turned out to be 6’6” and 23-stone Bull, a convicted sex offender who was masquerading as a young boy to incite young girls to pass him indecent images. Some of this interaction included live video over the Internet. “We then traced two other victims, aged 11 and 14, who had also been contacted by Bull, and who had also been deceived into exactly the same types of exchanges.