PERV SNARED Dark Justice paedo vigilantes snare pervert trying to meet ’13-year-old girl’ for a ‘kiss and a cuddle’ – watch video of dramatic moment.
This article is about Stephen Bateman who is 24 year old and the way he uses Facebook to have online sex with underage girls. Despite adding the girls and peading guilty he was still set free.Prosecutors accepted his guilty plea on the basis he intended to "kiss and cuddle" with the girl but no further sexual activity.
Judge Rippon sentenced Bateman to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years, with rehabilitation requirements and ten year sex offender registration. The judge said Bateman's lack of previous convictions, his immaturity, vulnerability and low intellectual capacity meant the jail term could be suspended.
The reason I chose this story was because the way in which he was just set free, despite the fact that he didn't meet the girl but he intended to and she was underage. There is so much stories about young girls getting kidnapped and raped and grudges are allowing borderline sex offenders to walk free based on the face he is 'vulnerable' and 'immature' the same way these little girls are also and they are the most at risk. Its shameful how they put drug dealers away to do long sentences talking about making the streets safer but allowing a man with intentions to 'kiss and cuddle' underage girls free.
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