Trainee police officer sent explicit images to girl on Snapchat – Salisbury Journal

A student police officer has been jailed after posing as a schoolboy to send explicit images of himself to a nine-year-old girl on Snapchat. Jason Hicks, 31, was sentenced to four years in prison after a court heard he also persuaded the victim into sending him intimate photos – and tried to do the same with four other children. Hicks was caught after the mother of the nine-year-old girl, from Wiltshire, found his messages on her daughter’s phone, according to the Daily Mail. The newspaper reports that he groomed as many as one hundred girls. The offences were uncovered while Hicks was in training to be a Devon and Cornwall Police officer. He was immediately arrested and suspended and subsequently dismissed without notice. Jason Hicks (Image: Devon and Cornwall Police) Officers found more than 1,200 indecent images and videos of children on his laptop, iPad and other digital devices seized when a warrant was carried out at his home. Hicks, of Bishopsteignton, Devon, fully admitted offences dating back to 2012 in his first police interview – telling detectives he felt relieved to have been caught. He pleaded guilty to a total of 13 charges and was sentenced at Exeter Crown
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