March 2017 Facebook pervert called ‘Superman’ preyed on young girl on Valentine’s Day and lured her to his home A Facebook pervert using the online moniker Superman preyed on a vulnerable young girl on Valentine’s Day and lured her to his home. Shah Ahmed sent the 14-year-old stranger a friend request and soon started engaging in online sex chat. A court heard he sent messages about hugging and kissing her, said he wanted to “make her a bad girl”, asked her to send him photographs and told her she was gorgeous. He then rang the youngster and invited her to his home and she agreed to go if he gave her some paracetamol tablets. When she got there he took her to his room, locked the door and kissed her. Newcastle Crown Court heard the victim, who was already troubled, has gone on to self harm and has post-traumatic stress disorder. Now Shah, of Marshall Wallis Road, South Shields, has been jailed after he admitted causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and meeting a child following sexual grooming. A relative of the girl said: “This man has preyed on her, groomed her, spoke about being boyfriend and girlfriend and arranged to meet her despite knowing she was 14.” The court heard Shah, 25, told the girl he was only 18 after sending her a friend request on Facebook in the early hours of February 14 2015. Jonathan Devlin, prosecuting, said: “He used the profile name Superman and had a conversation during which they exchanged phone numbers. “The defendant rang [the girl] so he could hear her voice. “During that conversation he suggested she should go to his home so they could watch TV and, as he put it, hang out.” While communicating on Facebook, he spoke about hugging and kissing her and made comments about the size of his manhood. Ahmed asked if she smoked and when she said she had only tried it once, he replied: “Still a good girl aren’t you. Until I make you a bad girl.” A meeting was arranged for the following day and the girl travelled from Newcastle to South Shields. Ahmed, who gave her a false name, picked her up from a Metro station in his car and took her to his home, where he lives with his family. He told her to go straight upstairs to his bedroom and gave her two strips of paracetamol. Mr Devlin said: “He started kissing her and she stayed at his accommodation for some time.” After the ordeal, Ahmed took the girl to a different Metro station, dropped her off and drove away. He later communicated with her on Snapchat but she told him she didn’t want him to contact her again. Mr Devlin said: “During their meeting she told him she was 14 and he told her he was 18 or 19 and said their age difference did not matter to him.” The court heard the girl already had some problems before the offence but that there had been a “significant decline in her mental health” since. Jailing him for 32 months and imposing a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and ordering him to sign the sex offenders’ register for life, Judge Amanda Rippon told him: “Maybe you didn’t know about the problems she had and you are not the only reason why she is in the position she is but I have not the slightest doubt you are a major contributing factor.