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Police make sickening discovery after seizing phone of pervert caught out by 'Justice for the Innocent' group

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A man who messaged a child decoy online was found to have been having vile conversations with three actual kids. Joseph Cooper, 22, added the ‘girl’ on Facebook before sparking a sexual chat with her.

He later asked her to send him intimate images of herself despite her telling him she was 12-years-old. The ‘girl’ was actually an adult, Manchester Crown Court heard.

The group behind the sting - Justice for the Innocent - later went to his home in Salford and alerted police. Officers searched Cooper's house and recovered his mobile phone. READ MORE: Nurse, 25, admits 'inappropriate relationship' with inmate - while a prison worker is accused of fling with same man Analysis revealed he had been talking to three teenage girls.

He encouraged one to send him videos of herself performing a sex act. Cooper admitted offences of attempting sexual communication with a child; sexual communication with a child; inciting a child to engage in sexual activity; causing a child to engage in sexual activity and making indecent images of children.

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