Facebook predator had sex with underage schoolgirl while another 14-year-old was pregnant with his baby
A Facebook predator who had sex with an underage schoolgirl – while another 14-year-old was pregnant with his baby – has been jailed for 10 years.
Daniel Thomas groomed two 14-year-old girls on the social media site to "pester" them to share naked selfies, Cardiff Crown Court was told.
The court heard the 24-year-old then went on to have sex with the girls despite a formal warning from police to stay away.
Mr Craig Jones, prosecuting, said: "He befriended and had sexual intercourse with both children.
"One girl's mother tried to stop contact between them.
"Police issued an abduction notice, which forbade Thomas from having more contact with her daughter. But this man had impregnated her and she underwent a termination at hospital."
Thomas invited the second girl to his house in Llandrindod Wells around the same time the first girl was having her termination.
Mr Jones said: "They smoked cannabis together. She began to feel tired. It was then that they started touching and then had sexual intercourse."
Thomas was arrested in November 2015 in relation to the first girl but denied the sexual relationship.
He was further arrested in December when allegations about the second girl came to light, but again he denied any wrongdoing.
The court heard police found 17 indecent images of one of the girls in "various stages of undress" in a computer folder named 'well well'.
He pleaded guilty before his trial to seven counts of sexual activity with a child, inciting a child to engage in sexual intercourse, possessing indecent photographs of a child and possession of cannabis.
Mr Andrew Davies, for Thomas, said: "He is 24, but perhaps in relation to his maturity, he is far younger."
Judge Thomas Crowther QC said Thomas had also been arrested over a "very similar scenario" with another teenage girl just weeks before he met the two 14-year-olds.
The judge told Thomas: "You had effectively been warned off but you simply continued thinking only of yourself and your pleasure.
"Whatever your level of maturity, you have an adult sexual appetite."
Thomas, of Trefonen Way in Llandrindod Wells, was jailed for 10 years and given restraining orders against his two victims as well as a sexual harm prevention order.