Police worker who used Habbo to get children to perform sex shows is jailed

[xxMATTGxx]

Some what more bad press for Habbo Hotel as this is now in the Daily Mail:

• Children as young as ten posed indecently for the PCSO
• The officer was in his post for two-and-a-half years before he was exposed
• Habbo, the controversial web-chat site attracts ten million youngsters each month who could be putting themselves at risk

A POLICE worker who coaxed children into performing webcam sex shows has been locked up.

Paedophile Ashley Whitfield used animated kids’ web-chat site ‘Habbo Hotel’ to find victims late at night.

Children as young as ten posed indecently for him via webcams in their bedrooms as their parents slept unawares.

The PCSO, who secretly recorded the images, won his victims’ trust by pretending to be a teenager.

In reality, Whitfield, 25, was a serving police community support officer with a secret obsession with child porn.

He had been in a £20,000-a-year post with Cheshire Constabulary for two-and-a-half years when he was exposed.

Whitfield, of Redfern Walk, Warrington, had used a string of different email addresses to avoid detection.

He sobbed in the dock as he was jailed for three-and-a-half years at Manchester Crown Court.

He had admitted six counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, three counts of taking indecent photographs of a child, and 13 counts of possessing child pornography at an earlier hearing.

Read the full article by going to:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ws-jailed.html

[MKR&*42]

Lmao, another brilliant image for Habbo.

Absolutely disgusting what he did though +o(

[Nick]

I hope this don't start all over again -_-''''

Thats just ridiculous

[Demi]

Three years? Damn this country sucks for this. LIFE!

[Matt]

Worst thing was he was a member of the police!! That's messed up ..

[Kieran]

Wonder if anyone on here knew him

[Munex]

Gross, but Habbo is actually a lot safer than other chat sites. There are so many chat rooms that are constantly filled with old men that message you, "I'm 46, is that OK?", and then try to take things further on MSN; they purposely go into the 'teen' category and are purposely looking for children. I haven't seen a lot of this on Habbo - the Daily Mail know that Habbo is currently an interesting and saleable talking point.

On another note, I think three-years imprisonment is satisfactory. Life would be extreme, unless he touched a minor. Sickening.

[Mat7]

That's so wrong and disgusting. I agree that three years is acceptable as well.

[Hiding]

his sentence should be longer..

[kuzkasate]

Sentence is ridiculous, should have been much longer. This just leads me on to think that Habbo needs to be closed even though I opposed this a few months ago. But I wouldn't want my child playing a game like that? Rammed with paedophiles... it's not safe at all and its disgusting, because things like this will still carry on.