December 2022 Convicted sex offender caught re-offending by paedophile hunting team A convicted sex offender has been caught speaking sexually to who he believed was a 13 year old girl Pervert Carl Williams was confronted today after he sent sexually explicit messages and a picture of his penis to the child. The child was however not real and was instead a decoy.  May 2014 Man, 21, groomed girl online before having sex with her A man of 21 had sex with a girl aged 13 on a river bank in Mid Wales after earlier grooming her on the internet. Carl Anthony Williams, said to have learning difficulties, was jailed for three years at Mold Crown Court. The defendant had contacted her via an internet chat room when she was just 12 and he had been warned off a number of times by the victim’s mother. But he arranged to meet her at Newtown in Powys and she agreed to have sex with him believing that he loved her. He then gave her a £15 ring before returning home to Swansea by train. The incident had left the victim feeling depressed and she would self harm to try and release the anger that she felt for him, the court was told. Williams of Bardsey Avenue, Blaen y Maes, Swansea, was placed on the sex offender register for life. A life-time Sexual Offences Prevention Order was also made under which he must never approach the victim again. He admitted penetrative sexual activity with a child. Prosecutor Karl Scholz told how the defendant contacted the girl on the Internet when she was 12 and he was 21. He was warned off by the mother four times and she changed the passwords and her daughter’s phone and believed that there was no more contact between them. But he told the mother that age should not matter because he loved her and wanted to marry her. She alerted the police when she later found out that – when he was 21 and she was 13 in September of last year – he travelled by train to meet her and they had unprotected sex on a river bank. The girl, who was a virgin, said that he asked her for sex, saying that he wanted to but did not want to pressurise her. Judge Philip Hughes said that despite warnings from the victim’s mother, the defendant travelled to Newtown and had sex with her before returning to Newtown. She was a vulnerable young girl who had not been able to make decisions of a sensible nature in order to protect herself. Immediate custody was needed not just to punish him but to act as a warning to other young men who should realise that if they behaved in such a way towards young girls then they would be dealt with robustly. There had been a significant degree of planning and grooming online, the judge said. He warned that the starting point for such an offence was five years with a range of between four and ten years. The court heard how the victim was vulnerable and had tried to take an overdose after what had happened. She thought he loved her and she had been self-harming to release the anger she felt towards him.