Pedophile Pinched by Spouse

(Cardiff, Wales) Heh.

A wife posed as a schoolgirl online to catch her husband using an internet chatroom to groom underage girls for sex.

Cheryl Roberts, 61, had become concerned about the amount of time her husband David spent at his computer.

When a strongly-worded sexual message appeared on his screen while he was out, her suspicions were raised even further, a court heard.

To her disgust, Mrs Roberts discovered that her 68-year-old husband of 20 years had been logging on to a teenage chatroom.

The message, signed with his nickname Corky, had been sent to an underage girl, but showed on his screen again when she sent her reply.

Rather than confront him, his wife used a second computer in their home to join the same chatroom, pretending she was a 14-year-old girl.

The court was told that the couple then exchanged messages - while he was in his private study and she was in their living room next door.

As well as sending explicit messages, Roberts even used a webcam to film himself performing a sexual act, thinking it was being watched by a young girl.

But after he propositioned the 'girl' and asked to meet her for sex, his wife decided to act, contacting the police and the NSPCC.

When police seized his computer and found dozens of illegal child-porn images, Roberts assumed he had been caught out by routine monitoring of downloads.

He was stunned when detectives broke the news that he had actually been chatting up his wife.

Mr. Roberts denied having had any meetings with schoolgirls, rather he was just working up to it. What an idiot.

Crown Court ordered Roberts to probation (three-year community order) and told to register as a sex offender and attend a sex offenders work program. Mrs. Roberts said she is shocked by the sentence. So am I. He should spend some of his golden years in prison.

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