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<\/p>\nThe school has written to parents this week on the same day he was sentenced<\/p>\n
Twm Owen, Local Democracy Reporter<\/p>\n
07:04, 16 Apr 2026<\/p>\n
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Durand Primary in Caldicot(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service)<\/p>\n
A deputy headteacher at a school in south Wales has been exposed as a sex offender who had asked what he thought was a 14-year-old schoolboy to send him “naughty pictures” online.<\/p>\n
Anthony Moses thought he was messaging an underage schoolboy in online conversations on FabGuys – a dating app for gay men – but he was actually messaging a police decoy account, Cardiff Crown Court heard earlier this week.<\/a><\/p>\n Moses, 48, is the deputy headteacher at Durand Primary School<\/a> in Caldicot, Monmouthshire<\/a>. The school has contacted parents to inform them they “may become aware of information in the public domain regarding our deputy headteacher”.<\/p>\n Moses received his sentence on Monday, April 13, being handed a six-month jail term suspended for 12 months. The school issued its message to parents on the same day.<\/p>\n The school’s letter to parents reads: “I can confirm this matter is not related to any child connected to the school or the local community.<\/p>\n “As a school, as soon as we were made aware of the concern we worked with our statutory partners, the local authority and police in line with our safeguarding procedures.<\/p>\n “Until this time we have not been able to share any updates due to this being a confidential matter involving a live police investigation and court process. Anthony Moses was not in work at the time of these concerns being raised due to a prior period of absence.”<\/p>\n Moses’ criminal activity occurred on a single day on November 20, 2024. Moses, of East Road, Oakfield, Cwmbran, had denied the charge of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child but was found guilty following a trial in February this year before appearing for sentencing on Monday.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Monmouthshire council said: “As a council and school the safeguarding and wellbeing of our pupils is our main priority. The school and local authority will follow due process now that the criminal process has been concluded.”<\/p>\n The sentencing hearing was told Moses had written a “letter of remorse” to Judge Richard Kember. Judge Kember told the defendant that he knew the “boy” was aged 14 years old.<\/p>\n He added: “You asked the decoy, ‘You got any naughty pictures?’ You sought and solicited images.” He told him he would spare him an immediate prison sentence because he believed there was a “realistic prospect of rehabilitation”.<\/p>\n Moses was told he must carry out 150 hours of unpaid work in the community and complete a 30-day rehabilitation activity requirement.<\/p>\n He is also required to sign the sex offenders’ register for the next seven years and was also made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for the same duration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The school has written to parents this week on the same day he was sentenced Twm Owen, Local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[184603,1343,924,1398,59,57,58,20614,41147,50,56,54,55,101662],"class_list":{"0":"post-533767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-caldicot","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-greatbritain","15":"tag-monmouthshire","16":"tag-newport","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom","21":"tag-wales-schools"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}