Locations
Uttoxeter Avenue, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, S64
Description
Shaun Cushing used Snapchat with the username 'tbundy4910' as he sent sexually charged messages to a decoy 13-year-old
A toe-sucking paedophile was caught out when he told a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl about his bizarre kink.
Former RAF employee Shaun Cushing gave himself the Snapchat username tbundy4910 as a nod to notorious serial killer Ted Bundy while also using the Kik screen name I love teen cream.
Sheffield Crown Court heard the 37-year-old had already been convicted of child sex offences in 2018 and chatted with the decoy teen for seven days in March.
Cushing was remanded in custody in April and when he was quizzed by detectives, he told them he didnt like children because they were noisey, prosecutor Andrew Semple said.
Mr Semple added that Cushing, from Mexborough, lied about his age and location and told the police officer posing as the underage teen that he was 21 years old and from Manchester.
Cushing sent multiple sexualised messages despite being told about her age and references to a school uniform being made.
Mr Semple also told the court that Cushing dropped in a reference to liking to suck toes as a kink.
When Cushing was arrested, he had a hard drive and computer seized and forensic investigators found 11 category A indecent images of a child, one of category B and one of category C.
He admitted three counts of making indecent images, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
Cushing, who wore a white t-shirt and glass as he appeared via videolink from HMP Doncaster, had carried out these offences having been made subject of a three-year community order and five-year sexual harm prevention order at Winchester Crown Court in 2018.
Judge Peter Kelson told Cushing, of Uttoxeter Avenue, he had clearly learnt nothing from the sex offenders treatment programme he had embarked on following his conviction three years ago.
Cushing was sentenced to three years in prison and made the subject of a new sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.
He will also be on the sex offenders register indefinitely.