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A vile paedophile used fake social media profiles to groom and abuse 'vulnerable' young girls.

Scott Kirkham create the fake profiles under the name of ‘Jake Richardson’ and claimed he was between 14 and 16-years-old, police said. The girls were all aged between 13 and 17.

He used a fake photo to befriend his victims before meeting up with three of them in person - sometimes with their parents present. He met up with two of the girls in Cumbria and Blackpool and sexually assaulted one at his home in Tameside .

Kirkham's horrific 'campaign of deceit' came to light when his IP address was tracked by police. They then seized his devices and found his fake accounts.

Officers also found sexually explicit pictures that Kirkham had sent of himself to the girls in archived WhatsA

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