Jamie Czyz, an HGV driver, was apprehended for attempting to engage a 12-year-old girl on Snapchat after he adorned his profile image with a pair of devil’s horns.
Jamie Czyz was ensnared by a police sting operation, as the “child” from whom he solicited upskirt photographs at her school desk was, in reality, an undercover investigator.
He transmitted images of his own genitals from the cabin of his truck and was recognised by law enforcement due to his use of the identical image on his anonymous Snapchat account as well as on other social media platforms where he utilised his real name.
The police successfully established that Jamie Czyz was responsible, as he had appended devil’s horns to both photographs.
Jamie Czyz, 36, of Nadder Meadow, South Molton, pleaded guilty to attempted sexual communication with a minor and received a six-month prison sentence, suspended for eighteen months. He was also mandated to participate in a 31-session sex offenders’ treatment program and complete 15 days of rehabilitative activities, as ordered by Judge David Evans at Exeter Crown Court.
He told him: “Despite being told the girl was 12, you immediately turned the communications to sexual matters and asked for intimate images.”
Mr Nigel Hall, prosecuting, said Jamie Czyz contacted a decoy profile set up by the Yorkshire and Humberside Organised Crime Unit on March 20 last year and believed he was talking to a 12-year-old girl named Ruby.
When she told him she could not send him images because she was in school, he asked her to use her phone to take an upskirt image while she was sat at her desk. He was identified through an IP address and from his profile image which had been doctored to add devil’s horns.
Mr Robert Jacobs, defending, said Jamie Czyz had only conducted the conversation for a day and then stopped because he realised it was wrong. He has sought help from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation charity to ensure he does not repeat his behaviour.
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