Paedophile 'desperate for attention' sent man horrific photo of herself abusing child

Shannon Donachie was hopeless for attraction from the man, and aft helium went soundless connected her she sent him the vile photograph of kid intersexual maltreatment 'for attention', Teesside Crown Court heard

A paedophile sent a representation of herself sexually abusing a kid successful a sick effort astatine getting "attention", a court heard.

Shannon Donachie "craved" the man's attraction and had been chatting with him online erstwhile she sent the disgusting photograph successful 2022. The 24-year-old was jailed aft Teesside crown tribunal heard she descended into a vile speech with the antheral astir sexually abusing children.

When helium began to shade her, hopeless Donachie sent implicit the picture. Prosecutor Shaun Dodds said: "He went soundless connected her and she craved his attention. He was precise circumstantial what helium wanted her to do. She sent a photograph of her doing so."

Donachie, from Middlesbrough, was aboriginal arrested and pleaded blameworthy to assaulting a kid by penetration and making an indecent photograph of a child. The antheral she had been chatting with was besides charged and tried, but acquitted, Teesside Live reports.

Robert Mochrie, for Donachie, said she "understands she indispensable beryllium punished". "This was a lonely and isolated idiosyncratic astatine the clip of the committee of these offences," helium said. "She is genuinely remorseful for what she has done."

Sentencing, Judge Tim Stead said the suspect fell into conversations online which were precise "unhealthy". He said: "You whitethorn not person initiated them but you did instrumentality portion successful them. I deliberation the main information for you was that you didn't privation to suffer the societal interaction that you got.

"You were encouraged to bash thing of a intersexual quality and you did it. I americium satisfied that but for the unit of circumstances and encouragement you got from elsewhere you wouldn't person done specified a thing. It is evident the different enactment would retreat from chatting with you if you were not cooperative and successful agreement.

"Of people I stress, that cannot excuse intersexual transgression offending against a child. It can't adjacent statesman to bash that. Your motivation nonaccomplishment was besides a transgression failure."

The defendant, of Fairfield Avenue, has nary erstwhile convictions and was handed a five-year extended condemnation made up of a four-year custodial word and 1 twelvemonth connected licence.