Jack Davey 21

Description

An online child groomer who persuaded multiple young girls to send him indecent images and videos has been jailed.

Jack Davey, 21, from Meopham, lied about his age and met victims in order to sexually abuse them. He also convinced the girls to perform sexual acts during video calls that he recorded without their knowledge.

Davey was sentenced to three years and four months’ imprisonment when he appeared at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday 9 May 2025 having pleaded guilty to more than 30 separate offences. These included inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, meeting a child following sexual grooming, possessing indecent images of children and making threats to disclose private sexual images with intent to cause distress.

He must serve at least two thirds of his sentence before being eligible for parole and will spend an additional two years on licence under the terms of an extended sentence. Davey was also made subject to a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and will be on the sex offender register for life.

Arrested

Kent Police officers arrested Davey at his home in Harvel Road in May 2022 after being informed he had groomed a 13-year-old girl he had met online. Davey was 17 at the time but pretended he was younger in order to exchange sexual communications with the girl and to arrange to meet with her.

Following his arrest, by which point he had turned 18, the force was made aware of similar indecent contact between Davey and two other girls from other parts of Kent.

A review of the offender’s internet devices revealed that he had been messaging a large number of girls across various platforms in Kent and elsewhere in the country, and saving images and videos of them that were of a sexual nature.

Davey’s sentencing also includes further crimes committed between November 2023 and January 2024 of grooming a 14-year-old girl and multiple breaches of a previous SHPO.