After confessing to getting a teenager to provide him, Shireoaks Paedophile Michael Pierce, with a pornographic picture and then sharing the image with another child after she refused to send him further photographs, a former West Yorkshire teacher has been sentenced to prison.
Michael Pierce, 32, of Blackstone Drive, Shireoaks, Worksop, admitted guilt to counts of encouraging a child under 13 to participate in sexual conduct, causing a child to watch a sexual act, inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, and distributing an indecent photograph of a child.
Michael Pierce was sentenced to six years in jail after appearing at Leeds Crown Court today, Thursday, June 27. In order to prevent unsupervised contact with children, he was also put on the sex offender register for life and given a life-long sexual harm prevention order (SHPO).
Michael Pierce befriended the victims on Snapchat, pretending to be a 16-year-old Leeds lad.
When one of the women refused, he threatened to forward the naked picture to all of her Snapchat friends. She emailed him a nude snap. He asked the second victim to send naked pictures of herself and handed her the first victim’s images.
Following police tracking of his IP address, Michael Pierce was arrested in Wakefield in August 2021. He taught at the time the crimes were carried out and following his imprisonment.
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