Locations
Falsgrave Avenue, Bradford, BD2
Description
A man from Bradford who admitted to a number of child sex offences has been jailed for six years.
Rehan Ali aged 24 of Falsgrave Avenue admitted two counts of inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity, making an indecent photograph of a child, attempt to incident a girl aged 13 -15 to engage in sexual activity and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.
The offences happened between October and November 2024 when Ali used snapchat to befriend two girls who were seven and eight years old.
Ali then contacted a child he believed to be a girl aged 13, on Facebook and then WhatsApp. He engaged in sexual communications making attempts to incite the child into sexual activity. This was a decoy profile operation by an online child abuse group.
Today (10 August) he was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court to six years in prison, given a sexual harm prevention order and made to sign the sex offenders register.
PC William Metcalfe of the Bradford’s Online Child Abuse Investigation Team said:
“We welcome the sentenced handed down to Ali today. Ali used social media to target and exploit children.
“He deliberately contacted underage girls online for his own sexual gratification.
“As a police force, we remain committed to safeguarding children and would encourage parents and young people to report any concerns about suspicious online content to us.”