John Rudd, 57, has been jailed for a year after being caught by a group of Internet pedophile hunters – Dark Justice – which set up a fake profile on adult dating website Badoo posing as a 14-year-old girl named Donna.
Rudd contacted Donna, started sexual conversations with her, and arranged to meet her even though he knew she was underage. But when the 57-year-old from Stockton arrived to meet her in November 2014 near the Millennium Bridge in Newcastle he was confronted by two men with a video camera.
He was arrested by police and after he admitted the offence he was charged with attempting to meet a child after sexual grooming, and as punishment sent behind bars as well as was put on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
The Newcastle Crown Court heard there were 130 pages of messages between Rudd and Donna in which he made several sexual references. Rudd talked about sharing a bath, asked intimate questions and suggested she did not wear underwear when they met.
Judge Penny Moreland observed:
“You were attentive, flattering, kind and thoughtful and meanwhile you turned the conversation, when you could, to sexual matters. I accept no child was actually harmed by what you did, but your behavior was persistent and you believed yourself to be engaging in contact with a girl of 14.”
Prosecutor Alec Burns told the court:
“The case is a little unusual in that the actual people with whom he was communicating were two men in their 20s, members of a group Dark Justice. They effectively set up a trap to trap pedophiles. The Badoo website is aimed at adults and Rudd, who has no previous convictions, had initially believed he was speaking to a 19-year-old. After a short time, three weeks, she told them she was in fact only 14. That did not stop the communications.”
One of the Dark Justice members, who helped trap Rudd, said:
“I am upset his life has been destroyed but he would have destroyed a little girl’s life.”
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What a pig!
Usually, I would say either a correctional facility and/or medical treatment and community service is the best way to educate and punish the perpetrator, but this prick obviously has no mental problems, definately knows better and had bad intent, I hope this guy gets a pull-out while he is in the doghouse!
Keep on the good work !!