Paedophile Sentenced for Grooming Underage Girl

Mohammed Younis, from Derby, has been sentenced to four years in prison for grooming and sending explicit images and texts to someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl. The "girl" was actually a self-styled paedophile hunter who had modified their profile picture to appear much younger.

Younis began messaging the individual in March and offered to "teach" and "train" the pretend teenager how to become "good at sex," suggesting that "it would be OK if nobody knows" and encouraging the "girl" not to tell her mother. He also groomed her by offering to buy her jewelry and chocolates.

Prosecutor Mark Achurch told Derby Crown Court that Younis said to the "girl" that he wanted to marry her, have a baby with her, and create a pornographic film with her. Younis committed these offenses while on licence after being released from prison following a previous conviction for unrelated offenses. He is also awaiting trial for exposing himself to a prison officer while in custody in Nottingham.

Recorder Balraj Bhattia said: "You genuinely believed that you were liaising with a girl that you knew was 14 years of age. The nature of the conversations that you had with her were explicit, and I have no doubt that you believed or intended to carry out these assertions made by you. You encouraged her, or incited her, to perform oral sex on you, to have sexual intercourse with you, telling her that although it may be painful to start off with, she would get used to it. I take the view that this is a serious example of that type of offending."

Younis's barrister, Steven Gosnell, admitted that "there is clearly grooming here" and that the defendant "says this part of his life was chaotic to say the least." He added that Younis "does not excuse what he did in any way" and "is clearly someone that wants help, he is clearly someone who needs help."