The leader of a spiritualist group, Gareth Edwards, pictured above who told a teenage girl she would make an 'excellent medium' while grooming her for sex on Facebook has been jailed.
West Midlands Police arrested Edwards when the victim - who cannot be named for legal reasons - told them he tried to have sex with her in a car.
Gareth Edwards, 33, used his spiritualist church group to befriend the 13-year-old girl's family before trying to seduce her online.
A court heard Edwards carried out a 'long campaign' of grooming, with more than 600 chat logs found between the two.
The judge said it was 'every parent's nightmare', with Edwards using a degree of charm to gain the family's trust.
He told the young girl she would be an 'excellent medium' before asking her to have sex with him on the social networking website.
Officers seized a computer and hard drive from his home in Coventry. On it they found a series of indecent videos, including one of a three-year-old girl being raped.
Edwards, who lived with his mother, had admitted one charge of sexual assault and four of making indecent images, and was jailed for 26 months on Friday at Warwick Crown Court.
Judge Sylvia de Bertodano said: 'You are here because of what happened with a 13-year-old girl.
'You made it clear that at a later stage you wished to have a sexual relationship, and you took advantage of her when you were in a car together.
Culled from DAILY MAIL
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