He was stung by decoy profiles run by a paedophile hunter group
Carl Mardel was sentenced to two years and eight months imprisonment.
The paedophile hunter group set up two decoy profiles on the app – claiming to be a 12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl.Mardel messaged the supposed 12-year-old for two months, asking intimate details about her body and explaining sexual intercourse to her. During his arrest, Mardel said: “I can’t believe I have been so stupid. I have ruined my life and my wife and daughter’s life.”The court heard how the defendant was previously imprisoned back in 2000 for the violent rape of a 15-year-old girl, and was only removed from the sex offenders’ register in 2019.
"The acknowledgement that he has ruined his life shows he understands the seriousness of what he has done.”Recorder Mark McKone sentenced Mardel to two years and eight months in prison, with an extended licence period of six years. Mardel was issued with a sexual harm prevention order and will remain on the sex offenders register for life.
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