One Osacpolor Jimoh, a Nigerian man based in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for attempting to have sexual affair with a 13-year-old girl.
Jimoh was sentenced at the Leeds Crown Court in the United Kingdom, the Yorkshire evening post disclosed.
This is as the suspect pleaded guilty to five counts, including attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming, attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity, and attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act.
The 37-year-old reportedly came across the young girl’s Facebook profile in May last year and later asked her for a “secret relationship”.
However, unknown to Jimoh, the supposed teenager’s profile was that of undercover detectives who specialize in exposing paedophiles.
During his conversation with the profile, Jimoh had claimed he was 19 and asked the supposed teenager questions bordering on her sexual experience.
He was also said to have sent the “teenager” explicit clips of himself and became “aggressive” when she refused to do the same.
The suspect in Edinburgh, Scotland, was said to have arranged to meet physically with the supposed teenager in Leeds.
Also, Jimoh went to reportedly booked a two-night stay in a hotel for himself and the “teenager”.
Security operatives at the Leeds rail station nabbed him when he was on his way to meet the supposed teenager ahead of her purported 14th birthday in a viral video
Before his arrest, Jimoh was interrogated by the security operatives during which they found in his pocket condoms and lollipops.
The presiding judge Mark McKone while ruling over the case said: “You (Jimoh) became aggressive if you did not get your way. The communication continued for five and a half months, you booked a cheap hotel and were armed with condoms.”