\n Daniel Willacy, from Woking, used an alias when he first contacted the girl.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 29-year-old\u2019s messages quickly became sexual in nature, with him sending 36 messages within 26 minutes at one point.\n<\/p>\n
\n He repeatedly asked the nine-year-old for indecent photographs and videos.\n<\/p>\n
\n Willacy also encouraged her to make videos of herself engaging in sexual activity and send them to him.\n<\/p>\n
\n The offending was reported to police in February 2024 after the girl’s mother and sister found Snapchat and Instagram messages from Willacy on her phone.\n<\/p>\n
\n Officers established that the Instagram account used to contact the girl had been accessed from Willacy’s home address on several occasions.\n<\/p>\n
\n He was arrested following further enquiries.\n<\/p>\n
\n A forensic examination of the girl’s phone recovered the chat log with Willacy’s account, as well as the video she had been groomed into making and sending to him.\n<\/p>\n
\n He pleaded guilty to causing or inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity, engaging in sexual communication with a child and attempting to meet a girl under 16 following grooming.\n<\/p>\n
\n Willacy was jailed for 54 months when he appeared at Guildford Crown Court last week.\n<\/p>\n
\n He was also given a 10-year restraining order protecting the victim.\n<\/p>\n
\n Detective Constable Jo Holland, who investigated the case, said Willacy \u201cused an alias to trick the victim into engaging with him\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: \u201cIt didn\u2019t take him long to reveal the real reason he had reached out to her.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n DC Holland said his demands for photographs and videos were \u201cwholly inappropriate and unacceptable\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n She added that his behaviour was stopped before Willacy and the girl were able to meet.\n<\/p>\n
\n The officer urged anyone concerned about themselves or someone close to them being targeted or groomed online to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Willacy, from Woking, used an alias when he first contacted the girl. The 29-year-old\u2019s messages quickly became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-910769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}