A YOUNG boy who enchanted teenage girls on Facebook was revealed to be a 23-stone 6 ft 6 convicted sex offender.

Alan Bull was jailed for five years and four months and placed on the sex offenders register for life after he charmed girls as young as 11 into sending him indecent pictures.

The 31-year-old, of Upper Church Road, St Leonards, admitted to two counts of possession of indecent images of the girls, one count of making indecent images, breaching a sexual offences prevention order, and inciting one teenage girl to engage in sexual activity.

The mother of the 11-year old girl said; "I feel very angry towards Alan Bull. I am angry that he just randomly chose my young daughter to do this to and took away her dignity. I think she will get over this but it will take a very long time. I don't think that it will ever leave her completely."

Detective Constable Chris Milner said; "Our investigation began in December last year from an initial report from a mother of one of the victims that her daughter had been asked on Facebook to send indecent images by a young man, who turned out to be 6'6" and 23-stone Bull, a convicted sex offender who was masquerading as a young boy to incite young girls to pass him indecent images. Some of this interaction included live video over the Internet."

He added: "This case illustrates once again the dangers of unwary and unsupervised use of the web by young people who need to be really careful in their contacts with people they do not know."