“He kept asking her for explicit images of herself and sent her explicit images of himself. He then became frustrated with her as she was not sending the images he had requested.”
Bennett had been released from prison in 2019 and was subject to a sexual harm prevention order which meant he had to tell police if he used social media.
He has previous convictions for attempted rape of a child, indecent assault of a child and having indecent images of children.
Mitigating Karl Volz said: “He doesn’t seek to deny he has a sexual attraction to young girls and is clear that it needs to be addressed and he has approached an organisation which offers counselling.