Thomas Macauley, 21, from County Antrim, has been jailed for a series of offences against nine teenage girls
Thomas Macauley, whose address is the subject of a reporting restriction, appeared at Belfast Crown Court via video-linkThomas Macauley, 21, pleaded guilty to a total of 34 offences.
The court heard that Macauley met the teenagers on social media and persuaded them to send him pictures in various states of undress. He was handed a sentence of three years and four months by Judge Patricia Smyth, who branded the case "shocking".All the offences were committed over a three-month period between August and November 2018, when Macauley was 17."His modus operandi seems to have been either to make contact using one of the social media platforms and establish some sort of relationship or rapport with these young ladies, and in some cases he met them personally," the barrister said.
He said Macauley carried out his threat to send the images on several occasions, and that the period of offending "wasn't just a flash in the pan" but was "sustained".
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