A former British police officer has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 12 years after he pleaded guilty to over 100 child sex offenses
A former British police officer was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with a minimum term of 12 years after he pleaded guilty to over 100 child sex offenses, including threatening and blackmailing more than 200 young girls into sending him sexual photos of themselves on Snapchat. Prosecutors say Lewis Edwards, 24, targeted 210 girls between the ages of 10 and 16 by posing as a teenage boy on the phone app.
He was arrested in February, and has since pleaded guilty to some 160 counts of child sex offenses and blackmail. In one case, prosecutors said Edwards threatened to bomb the house of a victim and shoot her parents if she stopped sending him images. Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke said Edwards was a prolific offender who posed a high risk of danger to children. She described his behavior as “cruel and sadistic.' “The defendant pretended to be a boy of a similar age.
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