Peter Pipe given suspended sentence for engaging two girls in sexual communication
A 70 year-old man posed as a teenager in a "subtly creepy" way to have sexualised online chats with two 12-year-old girls.
Peter Pipe visited sites popular with teenagers pretending to be a boy of 15 or 16 years old, Norwich Crown Court heard.
Barnaby Shaw, prosecuting, said the first victim told him she was 13, although she was in fact 12, and he had engaged in sexualised conversations with her.
Mr Shaw said the mother of the victim contacted police after she discovered the messages and when Pipe was arrested and his devices examined, police found he had also been talking to another 12 year-old girl, asking if she would like to be his first serious girlfriend.