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Paedophile caught by wife posing as teenager
Friday, 13 November 2009
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The actions of a woman who trapped her paedophile husband by posing as a teenage girl on the internet have been praised by a children's charity.
David Anthony Roberts (69) asked a girl he believed to be aged 14 to have sex with him, not realising he was having an online conversation with his wife Cheryl, the South Wales Echo reported.
Mrs Roberts called in the police and NSPCC and indecent images of children were found on his computer. He admitted to police he would have been prepared to have sex with the 14-year-old from the internet chatroom.
Claude Knights, director of children's charity Kidscape, said: “The offences that he has committed are very serious indeed and his wife must be commended for the active part that she played in bringing him to justice.”
Roberts, of Pant Street, Pantygog, Bridgend, south Wales, was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday and given a three-year community order.
