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image captionThe boy's parents removed his computer, but his abuser sent him a phone to send more images, the court heard
A 15-year-old boy shared sexual images of "extreme self-harming" after being groomed online.
Cardiff Crown Court heard he thought he was sending hundreds of images to his girlfriend over the course of a year.
But they were in fact sent to Darren Hart, 29, from Glasgow, who has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years.
Hart, who pleaded guilty to 10 charges of sex offences, befriended the boy through online gaming, then created a fake persona.
Prosecution barrister Matthew Roberts told the court the boy was told he had to send the images because the woman had been captured in America and "was being held by a gang who would hurt and rape her if he didn't do what was being demanded of him".