June 2014 Jobless loner posed as young girls for sex chats A JOBLESS loner posed as young girls on the internet to chat to girls about sex. Shaun Smith, 20, created the names “Maria Charlton” and “Naomi Garlston” for his deception and used the email address “mariababeh”. He was also downloading and distributing indecent images of children, including one of a child aged just four. Hull Crown Court heard his parents were “shocked and disgusted” when they discovered what he had been doing. Smith, of Greenwood Avenue, north Hull, was caught with a total of 642 indecent images and seven films on his laptop, external hard drive and iPhone. Most of the images were said to feature children aged between ten and 13, but one was of a child of four. Smith, who had no previous convictions, admitted two counts of possessing indecent images of children, one of making indecent photographs of children, and one of distributing indecent images of children. Judge Graham Robinson said society would be best served by Smith serving a three-year community order, which will see him attending the Northumbria Sex Offender Group Work Programme. For more on this article click this link