A 21-YEAR-OLD man threatened to share a photograph of a 14-year-old girl who was in an intimate state.
Tony Cooper made the threat in August 2024 at Denbury.
Newton Abbot magistrates heard Cooper used the Snapchat app to engage with the girl who he knew was 14 years old.
He said he was 16 when he was actually 18 years old.
Prosecutors said he was sent pictures of the girl in a bikini and topless and sent messages of a sexualised nature.
Communication ended when Cooper ordered her not to do some things like vape.
But he later got in touch with her and threatened to share the intimate pictures with her parents.
Cooper, of Exmouth, admitted a charge of threatening to share photograph or film of a person in an intimate state in August 2024.
The court heard he was an impulsive young man with no previous convictions who had not taken his medication for ADHD.
Magistrates sentenced him to a 12 month community order with 80 hours unpaid work and a three year long restraining order.
They said: ‘It was a nasty offence which caused considerable distress to a very young teenage girl who lived in fear of having trusted Cooper.’