An international student has been sentenced to three years in prison after being caught by an online paedophile group while attempting to meet someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl for s+x.
According to Newcastle Crown Court, 25-year-old Nigerian national Anderson Ishiekwene was arrested in Washington eight days after initiating s+xually explicit conversations with an online decoy profile.
Prosecutor Cole Cockburn told the court that on January 2, Ishiekwene contacted the Facebook profile of what he believed was a 14-year-old girl. Their conversation later continued on WhatsApp.
