A 46-year-old teacher who posed as a teenager online to ask girls for indecent images of themselves has been jailed for eight years.
Simon Clark, from Ellesmore Port, Cheshire, was a teacher in Alun School in Mold, Flintshire, when he pretended to be a 14-year-old boy and sent messages to 26 girls aged between 10 and 15.
Clark previously admitted 29 offences including inciting children under 13 to engage in sexual activity, and 21 counts of sexual communication with a child and making indecent images of children – 26 of which were in the most serious category.
His offences came to light in January 2023, when a mother saw explicit messages from Clark on her 12-year-old daughter's laptop.
Chester Crown Court heard the messages from the father-of-two included requests for pictures of the girl's body, which the mother reported to North Wales Police.
The account was in the name of Jamie_jones6968 who claimed to be a schoolboy in England, but the IP address of the account which sent the messages was traced to Clark.
