A Birmingham teacher has been sentenced to over three years in prison for sending naked images of himself to young girls on Snapchat, posing as a teenage boy to deceive them.
Jamie Morgan, 27, from Park Close, Erdington, contacted three girls on the social media platform, using various usernames and falsely claiming to be a 17-year-old boy. He sent them naked images of himself and coerced one of the girls into sending a similar image in return.
Concerns raised about Morgan’s behaviour prompted an investigation by West Midlands Police earlier this year. Officers arrested him on 30 January after examining his online activity. At Birmingham Crown Court in March, Morgan pleaded guilty to three counts of sending indecent images and one count of inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity.
On Thursday, 10 July, he was jailed for three years and six months and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
DC Darren English from the West Midlands Police Public Protection Unit said: “Morgan lied and manipulated his young victims, believing that doing so online and by using a fake identity would shield him from being found out. But we were able to quickly unmask his criminal activity and bring him before the courts.
“These young girls and those around them have shown great strength in supporting our investigation throughout, and it has resulted in Morgan now being locked up.”